As Jobson says of the album; “It feels fresh but never wanders too far from our love of anthems with energy. It was really anthemic stuff and Richard Jobson made you feel that you were being educated, whilst Stuart Adamson's Guitar riffs just completely hooked me completely. Why would anyone want to dump on their legacy of innovation with a bunch of the hoariest Rock n Roll musical and lyrical cliches known to man? How To Be Free" opens with swirling guitars before turning in a simple catchy chorus, it's another that's also rather good.

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. Here We Go, How To Be Free and Wings Of Desire follow in similar anthemic fashion before Things We’ve Seen, a haunting and atmospheric trek across Europe full of nostalgia and regret, brings things to a close. However, anyone who has witnessed the singer’s undiminished exuberance on stage in recent years will testify that there isn’t the slightest hint of jadedness in his deportment, but even he’s allowed a bad hair day. It's not like he even sings any tracks from the last album (perhaps because it gets in the way of talking. A patron funded not for profit record label, we are an ethics first business who believe in gender equality and fair pay for all.Then contact your credit card company, it may take some time before your refund is officially posted. Then there's the sort of Story of Skids on Things We've Seen with Jobson relating it as only he can in the style of Peaceful Times.

Online since 2010 it is one of the fastest-growing and most respected music-related publications on the net. Recorded in 2022, Destination Dusseldorf, the brand new studio album from Scotland's legendary Skids, will be released in 2023 on an array of Vinyl, CD and DL. Creativity born from friendship and respect lies at the heart of this new album which we think will be one of our finest recordings. With there being, sadly, no Stuart Adamson, the best best thing is his Big Country Guitar partner, Bruce Watson and you have to say that Watson takes on the Adamson Skids role wonderfully, at times it could be Stuart playing. However the hope is that new fans will come along for the ride and love this and discover the back catalogue.The guitar work is strangely reminiscent in turn of Masquerade and Circus Games, either a conscious nod to the past or just something in the band’s DNA – but as the Skids have never tried to emulate others, it’s only fair they should look to themselves for inspiration. With its release date delayed to coincide with the tour of the same name, Robin Boardman finds out if it was worth the wait. Tidal Wave" that follows is better, bigger and closer to the Skids Braveheart "In Tae Tha Vallea" style of punk sophistication, this is a real contender for the best track here crown. A few wry smiles at "going on and on again" as Jobson has more rabbit than Watership Down on stage (causing one wag to ask "any chance of a tune? The green vinyl edition was exclusively available at the live launch event held at Dunfermline Abbey on Friday 30th June 2023 and within a few very limited bundles.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Opener "Open Your Eyes" is an upbeat good start with the usual Skids/Big Country swirling bagpipe guitars from father and son Bruce and Jamie Watson but why at times does Richard Jobson sound like Neil Young? But then the wheels come off the wagon with the arty "Things We've Seen", what were they thinking, this is nil pointe horrible and one I'll be skipping in future, enough said. Destination Dusseldorf" at first offers so much, the first seven songs are good or better, and on the basis of these I need to check out the Skids' back catalogue, but then with "Things We've Seen" and "Greatest Prize" it all goes horribly wrong.Destination Düsseldorf may not have the youthful explosion of ideas of Scared To Dance or the strength of concept and production of its two successors, but the obvious vitality, enthusiasm and lack of pretension makes this a more than worthwhile addition to the Skids collection in its own right. Following a prolonged absence, frontman Richard Jobson re-formed the band for a number of live shows, appropriately enough with Big Country’s Bruce Watson and son Jamie replicating the guitar parts, but it wasn’t until the release of 2018’s Burning Cities album that they treated us to new material.