You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. All purchases of either the LP or CD will receive a free DL which includes the track "Greatest Prize". 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. I'm sure it's deliberate move, but Don't Stop and Wings of Desire are a far cry from Jobsons' lyrical best. Better assume the crash position then, especially on approaching the truly gruesome Lou Reed-esque track nine (who gets a mention along with Berlin multiple times, natch.

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.We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases. This is a more introspective track which mirrors the toll that the sheer longevity of Jobson’s career must take; ‘On and on and on it goes, don’t stop, do it again’.

In fact, he tells us that he's going again so many times at one point that you want to scream "just go already! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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. Rather than attempting to emulate the spiked artiness of debut Scared To Dance, the bold historical statement of Days In Europa or the polished intensity of The Absolute Game, Jobson wisely went with big anthems, stirring choruses, vigorous backing vocals and rousing slogans, and with Destination Düsseldorf, it’s in many ways more of the same. The band note Europe as an ongoing inspiration for the new LP; "from the beauty of the Renaissance to the savagery of many wars, the highs and lows have been from there as an ongoing and ever evolving influence.

However the hope is that new fans will come along for the ride and love this and discover the back catalogue. Coming across like some deranged motivational speaker, our budding wordsmith is clearly a man in a hurry on this hilariously awful but curiously infectious album (and the last one wasn't exactly Bob Dylan. Back in the day I wasn't a big Skids fan, I saw them perform at Surrey University in 1979, and remember only two things from that night, the skinheads had a rumble and some person born out of wedlock nicked my denim jacket from the cloakroom and I went home cold and grumpy, but I don't remember the music, perhaps it may have done had I bought "Scared to Dance".

It is a real shame, because Great Prize is a crackerjack of a song with a top notch vocal arrangement.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. People change but the heart and the energy that drives the band remains stronger than ever before as we look forward to a new chapter in the bands ongoing history. There’s nothing very specific in the lyrics as Jobson urges; ‘Look at the world around you, realise the dreams, got to fight for the answers, open your eyes and see’, but it’s a pretty safe bet which enemies this particular politicised Scot is drawing our attention to.