Following Adamson's departure, the final dissolution of the band was soon to follow. Unfortunately, however, not before Jobson and Webb issued a dour and ill-conceived concept album, Joy (1981), which served only to illustrate that, when Adamson left, he took all of the best tunes with him. Not surprisingly the album failed to chart, and proved a sorry end to a short career which had begun with so much spark and promise. To return your product, you should mail your product to: Last Night From Glasgow Limited , Glasgow Street, 23, Glasgow, G128JW, United Kingdom

To see clips of 50,000 people – even though the club’s in the second tier – all singing along to your song, it’s quite something,” says Jobson, 62. For a while, the Skids, founded by the great and sadly missed Stuart Adamson in 1977, shone very brightly in the early punk / new wave firmament. One of the first bands to tear up the basic punk template and take things in completely different directions, they produced three outstanding albums and a string of memorable singles (including the mighty Into The Valley) prior to Adamson’s departure in 1981 to form the massively successful Big Country. Everybody’s got their favourite Skids record and mine’s been, most of the time, Days In Europa,” Richard explains. Produced by Killing Joke bassist Youth, the album features trademark formidable guitar work from Bruce and Jamie Watson, plus guest contributions from Filthy Tongues songsmith Martin Metcalfe and ex-Strangler, Hugh Cornwell.a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Indie and New Wave Music (Firsted.). Guinness Publishing. p.256. ISBN 0-85112-579-4. Incredible bands came out of there – Kraftwerk, Neu! and Die Toten Hosen – as did Joseph Beuys, my favourite artist in the world and the guy who pointed me towards being creative.” Admiration for Joseph Beuys The new album “Destination Dusseldorf” follows in the footsteps of “Days In Europa” as a celebration of friendship and shared experiences. The cover shows the brilliant Jospeh Beuys striding towards us from his base in Dusseldorf full of confidence and optimism believing that we can do the right thing for the people and the landscapes that surround us. He is a philosopher, an artist, but most importantly a human being, a hero who never hid from the challenges of life.

Skids – 'Songs from a Haunted Ballroom' (Cleopatra Records) – RPM Online". Archived from the original on 20 May 2021 . Retrieved 16 June 2021. The band undertook another reunion tour in 2017 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their formation. It had a more extensive set of venues than the 2007 reunion with concerts throughout the UK and Ireland, and headlining the 2017 Rebellion Festival on the final night. The lineup included Richard Jobson, Bill Simpson, Mike Baillie, Bruce Watson and Jamie Watson. Make no mistake, Destination Düsseldorf is filler-free and no pale imitation of past glories. In fact, fans from that time will be hard pushed to notice any distinct change in their sound from the late seventies. Even, “Things We’ve Seen”, a musical trip around Berlin, which has a substantial flavouring of Bowie’s Low album, is a reflection of that city in those days and tells tales of running into the Thin White Duke himself, Lou Reed, William Burroughs and other counter-cultural heroes. Not that there is anything wrong with that at all. After all, there are plenty of other parallels within wider society between then and now during these difficult days. And that is far more disconcerting. I’ve got a great love for the place and the people, and Dusseldorf is probably one of the most exciting cities in Europe for music.Simpson, Bill (2007). "The Skids by Bill Simpson 2007". Stuart-adamson.co.uk . Retrieved 12 May 2015. Bill Simpson, Bruce Watson, J.J. Johnson (3), Jamie Watson (6), Mike Baillie, Richard Jobson, Russell Webb, Rusty Egan, Stuart Adamson, Tom Kellican Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error

My heritage is people coming over the water from northern Germany – my dad’s family have got tremendous links to that region.” Parallels with 1979 second albumA new album, Destination Düsseldorf, has been announced for March 2023, [11] then postponed to June 30th. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. The Fife veterans are set to unleash their eighth album Destination Düsseldorf later this month, with the frontman saying it marks a return to the sort of anthemic fare that earned them a reputation as one of punk’s leading lights in the late 70s. As a young kid on the east coast of Scotland I always felt closer to Europe, even though it was over the water, than I did to England in a funny kind of way.