BLACK and white photos in a Dunfermline art gallery show The Skids’ punk beginnings but you can see them in full colour tomorrow.
They’re playing the Glen Pavilion as part of a 40th anniversary tour but the story won’t end there with a new album, their first since Joy in 1981, set for release.
Frontman Richard Jobson was just 16 when he and Stuart Adamson, Bill Simpson and Tom Kellichan formed the punk band in 1977.
They signed to Virgin Records, were championed by John Peel and supported The Clash, enjoying their biggest success with Into the Valley – a song Jobson wrote in Dunfermline library.
The band split in 1982, Adamson went on to enjoy huge success with Big Country until his untimely death in 2001, while Jobson went on to a successful and varied career as a poet, model, style icon, actor, TV presenter and film director.
He brought his own art exhibition, Land Sea and Sky, to Fire Station Creative in Dunfermline last year, where there is currently a display of photographs showing The Skids in their punk heyday, and has written a book about David Bowie.
Although the band didn’t come together again until 2007, for their 30th anniversary, their musical influence has always been felt.
Into the Valley is still played before Dunfermline Athletic matches at East End Park and at Charlton Athletic’s stadium in London while The Saints Are Coming is boomed out ahead of matches at Hamburg, Southampton and New Orleans.
The song was also covered by U2 and Green Day in 2006 as a chart-topping benefit single in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
The line-up now consists of Jobson, bassist Bill Simpson and drummer Mike Baillie, as well as Bruce and Jamie Watson – of Big Country fame.
Tickets for the gig cost £25 and are available at ticketweb.co.uk.
New album Burning Cities is available to pre-order at theskids.com.
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