Skids

And there's a lot of bands reforming, you know, the kind of like, not teenage fan clubs, they've been gone forever, like, they've never ever split up at all.

But there are bands like The Skids and Bluebells, Friends Again, etc.

And they're coming back, and there's this big movement of bands that used to be big, and are now coming back again.

But where does that leave independent artists? What's it like just now for a new artist in Glasgow, in Scotland?

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The skids entered the official UK chart with Working for the Yankee Dollar at number 34 on the 24th of November 1979, remained in the UK chart for 11 weeks and peaked number 20 for one week.

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Where the air turned red as the bodies bled into a school-wide stream.

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Gekke! Turn one! Gekke! Head high! Gekke! And call! Gekke! In Germany in the 45 my mind was on the older I thought I've got the iron rod and that's a needed shelter From drinking beer and medicine and hiding that much colder I saw a German son with a Yankee gun and a uniform on my shoulder Yankee! Two! One! Yankee! Can't hide! Yankee! Yeah! Walkin' for the Yankee down road,

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Right, okay.

My next one is an EP, and it's an EP called Wide Open, uh, by The Skids.

Oh, right.

Oh.

So following on from our Big Country-

Yeah

... um, chat, was it last week or the, the week before? Um, so this is The Skids were, um, Stuart Adamson's, uh, first band, um, formed in Dunfermline in 1977, uh, by him, uh, Will Simpson, Thomas Kellichan, and Richard Jobson, the, um, uh, the lead singer.

And, uh, oh, bit of, he does a bit of everything, Richard Jobson.

But the other one that I specifically, um, I specifically mention, uh, I remember playing and he's, uh...

Uh, as soon as I hear it, I'm transported straight back to the landing at the top of me auntie and uncle's stairs with me ears pressed to the door listening to Masquerade by The Skids.

Um, a- and, um, yeah, it just instantly puts me back there every, every, every time that, uh, um, that, that I hear it.

And, and it was another one of those kind of, um, hearing those two songs, it was another one of those things that I just went, "I don't really know what that is, but I want more of it.

Everybody was ...

We had The Skids.

We had the beginnings of Big Country after Stuart left The Skids.

Um, and it was just everybody wanted to be in a band, and it was, it, it was the thing to do.

It was like your mates.

A lot of us wish we were still the age we were when we first saw these bands and we would like to see them again.

In some cases, bands like the Skids, although Richard Jobson might be the only original member, are as good as they ever were on stage.

You know, he is pumped up.

The guy's up for a gig.

And so just to kind of look at the overall with Scottish music then, if you had to pick, if you absolutely had to pick your most favourite Scottish act ever, who do you think you would pick?

Yeah, I mean, it's so hard, isn't it? I mean, Alex Harvey band, definitely up there.

Skids would be up there.

The band I listen to the most, hand on heart, because I listen to them when I'm writing, would be Boards of Canada.