"The way Jobson tells it, his and the band's ascent to national prominence in the late 70s was bit of a miracle in itself: growing up in a bleak, postindustrial mining village outside Dunfermline, his first stroke of luck was bumping into Sid Vicious in Malcolm McLaren's Sex shop on a trip down to London as a 15-year-old in 1976 to try to buy some leather trousers."
"Becoming a face on the early punk scene, Jobson's second bit of luck was meeting fellow Dunfermline-ite Stuart Adamson, who asked him to join his nascent band after an audition at Cowdenbeath Workingmen's Club. Jobson's stories of Skids' early days are pretty entertaining most of them involving some kind of mass fight as the band became part of the record-industry feeding frenzy after punk rock broke through in 1977."
"Jobson appears to remain justifiably proud of Skids' best known songs Into the Valley, The Saints Are Coming, Charles and it remains bit of a late-70s madeleine to see him cavorting around on Top of the Pops. He is also fairly forthright about in his views on various fellow travellers (his dislike for John Lydon and Nancy Spungen is readily apparent) while former bandmates Rusty Egan and the late John McGeoch get a bit of a pasting for other reasons."
Richard Jobson recounts his life from a 1970s Dunfermline teen to a Skids frontman and later TV presenter, filmmaker and novelist. The film intercuts archive footage with scenes of Jobson getting haircuts, trying on leather jackets, and performing onstage. Jobson recounts early lucks: meeting Sid Vicious in Malcolm McLaren's Sex shop and meeting Stuart Adamson after an audition. He narrates Skids' rise, scuffles, and the record-industry feeding frenzy after punk's breakthrough in 1977. He remains proud of songs like Into the Valley, The Saints Are Coming and Charles. He speaks bluntly about some contemporaries and avoids detailed discussion of Adamson's later life and death.
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