RICHARD Jobson takes his “songs and stories” to four cities across Scotland next week.
The punk polymath has plenty of both: anecdotes from his life as a broadcaster and film director, and a music back catalogue that stretches back to the late 1970s when he was the teenage frontman of Dunfermline’s Skids.
He revived Skids a couple of years ago, not as a nostalgia act but as a new creative concern marked by last year’s Burning Cities, the band’s first studio album in 36 years.
Produced by Killing Joke bassist Youth, the rage-fuelled record united Skids rhythm section Mike Baillie and William Simpson with Big Country’s father-and-son guitarists Bruce and Jamie Watson.
The Watsons back Jobson on these dates as well as playing their own set.
The bands share history, with Stuart Adamson having formed Big Country after co-writing the first three Skids albums with Jobson.
The latter recounts his time with Adamson, who died in 2001, in Into The Valley, a memoir written since his recent move to Berlin.
You’ll have a chance to ask if he misses Scotland in Q&A sessions following the music.
September 6 Saint Luke’s, Glasgow, 7pm, £22.50; Sep 7 Ironworks, Inverness, 7pm, £22.50; Sep 8 Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen, 7pm, £22; Sep 9 Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 7pm, £22. www.seetickets.com
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