He will also perform a short selection of classic Skids songs with current guitarist Connor Whyte.

Richard Jobson was born in Kirkcaldy Scotland 1960. He joined the punk band The Skids when he was 16 years old. They had a string of hits including Into the Valley, The Saints are Coming and Working for the Yankee Dollar before the disbanded in 1981.

He went on to act in a variety of stage plays before working as TV presenter on Arts shows such as 01-for London and Sky’s The Movie Show.

After producing movies for Sky and Mirimax he directed a version of his own book 16 Years of Alcohol to great critical acclaim. He has gone to to direct 6 more movies and recently had a leading role in Creation Stories – the story of Alan Mcgee.

He has continued to write poetry and prose as well as lyrics for the now reformed Skids who played the Albert Hall to a full house a few months before Covid.

His work with words goes beyond writing and has been included in light installations and photographs with layered text which are regular exhibited.

His new book The Kreuzberg Sonata is a fictionalised account of his life in Berlin in 1980/81 when he lived in the city with his girlfriend who sadly committed suicide.

Previous books:
A Man for all Seasons (Crepescule 1982)
16 Years of Alcohol (Crepescule 1983)
An Insiders Guide to London (Virgin 1993)
The Speed of Life (Unbound 2018)
Into the Valley (Wymer 2018)
No Bad Words (Bracketpress 2018)
Into the Void (Bracketpress 2019)
The Story of the Skids (St Judes 2021)
Castles in Spain (No Bad Books 2022)
The Kreuzberg Sonata (2024)
Another Dead Soul (2024)
Days in Europa (2024)
The Alabama Song (2025)

JOHN ROBB, is a journalist: TV and radio presenter: author, mentor and musician (The Membranes). He is a best-selling pop culture author of ’The Art Of Darkness’ – The History of Goth’, ‘Stone Roses’, ‘Punk Rock -an Oral History’, ‘Manchester – The North Will Rise Again’. Head of Louder Than Words – the UK’s biggest music and books festival.