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Skids at Rockaway Beach 2023.
As foot-stomping romps down memory lane go, a Skids gig is up there with the best
They may not be a band who can play 60 mins of top-ten bangers back-to-back, but they had notable chart success with songs like Into the Valley and Working for the Yankee dollar, and for anyone in their 60s, these tunes reverberate down the years as mainstays of late 70s radio and music TV.
Looking around the packed Butlin’s venue tonight, singer Richard Jobson also thanks the younger generation for coming out to see what the fuss was all about… he gives a special nod to a few who look like they still haven’t quite turned 55!
Jobson moved on from his work with Skids to become perhaps better known as a TV presenter, music pundit, and movie director… but the band remains his spiritual home, and as long as he can keep belting out the tunes and the fans keep coming back it’s hard to see him turning his back on the stage.
That said, he does admit after the first two energetic tracks that his recovery rate isn’t what it was, so the rest of the set might be a bit rubbish. Luckily for us, that proved untrue, but there is definitely a likelihood that his regular pauses between song to recount a few old anecdotes may well be as much a chance for a much-needed breather as anything else.
The stories that punctuate the set do raise laughs though.
For instance, his rant against Leo Sayer for keeping one of his records off the number one slot is intense… with Sayer taking the blame for everything from Brexit to Gaza, and ‘outed’ as the face behind Putin’s mask.
And Stuart Adamson’s departure from Skids to form Big Country clearly holds a special dark place in Jobson’s heart – although it’s also pretty certain these stories are filtered through a tongue lodged firmly in a cheek.
Nobody tonight shouted for Albert Tatlock – but Skids inflict ‘the worst punk song ever written’ on us anyway… it may be that Jobson is correct in this assessment… but if he hadn’t launched it on the world would we have ever seen Half Man Half Biscuit?
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