The more rocking, more complex, more punky "Wings Of Desire" that follows is another cracker and one I want to see live when the Skids support From The Jam later this year; and at about this point on this my third or fourth listening I'm changing my original opinion that "Destination Dusseldorf" isn't as good as "Burning Cities". It's not like he didn't say "Stuart Adamson is the Skids" in a radio interview (which DD sets out to prove with near-Herculean resolve. Then contact your credit card company, it may take some time before your refund is officially posted. 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. 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.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. One of the first bands to tear up the basic punk template and take things in completely different directions, they produced three outstanding albums and a string of memorable singles (including the mighty Into The Valley) prior to Adamson’s departure in 1981 to form the massively successful Big Country.In fact, he tells us that he's going again so many times at one point that you want to scream "just go already! 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. 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. It is a real shame, because Great Prize is a crackerjack of a song with a top notch vocal arrangement. 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.

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". com and send your item to: Last Night From Glasgow Limited , Glasgow Street, 23, Glasgow, G128JW, United Kingdom.

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. However the hope is that new fans will come along for the ride and love this and discover the back catalogue.