The Skids Live 2010 DVD is now available as a special offer and discounted price.

The Special Edition DVD with Promo CD is available to buy direct from Richard Jobson and is now only £12 including postage and packaging.

The Skids Live 2010 DVD is Region 2 PAL (UK) so this disc may not be suitable for playing in other countries and is not a multi-region or region free disc.

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The Skids Live 2010 DVD contains the following tracks: Animation, Of One Skin, Melancholy Soldiers, Thanatos, Yankee Dollar, The Saints Are Coming, Scared To Dance, Charles, The Olympian, Hurry On Boys, Charade, A Woman In Winter, Circus Games, Masquerade, Into The Valley, Fields.

The DVD also includes interviews with Richard and also footage from the Fifer Festival 2010

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DOUBLE CD in Deluxe Clamshell Box with Booklet which includes liner notes for each track plus the original sleeve.

PRICE: £12.99 INCLUDING delivery in the UK

£13.99 inc delivery to Europe

£14.99 inc delivery to Rest Of World

Includes the UK Top Ten smash “Into The Valley” plus the Top 20 “Masquerade” and “Working For The Yankee Dollar” – ten hit singles in total so this really is a”Best Of The Skids”.

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TRACK LISTING:

DISC 1

1. CHARLES

2. REASONS

3. TEST-TUBE BABIES

4. SWEET SUBURBIA

5. OPEN SOUND

6. THE SAINTS ARE COMING

7. OF ONE SKIN

8. NIGHT AND DAY

9. CONTUSION

10. INTO THE VALLEY

11. T.V.STARS (Live)

12. MASQUERADE

13. OUT OF TOWN

14. ANOTHER EMOTION

15. AFTERMATH DUB

16. CHARADE

17. GREY PARADE

DISC 2

1. WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR

2. VANGUARD’S CRUSADE

3. ALL THE YOUNG DUDES

4. HYMNS FROM A HAUNTED BALLROOM

5. ANIMATION

6. PROS AND CONS

7. CIRCUS GAMES

8. ONE DECREE

9. GOODBYE CIVILIAN

10. MONKEY McGUIRE MEETS SPECKY POTTERBEHIND LOCHORE INSTITUTE

11. WOMAN IN WINTER

12. WORKING FOR THE YANKEE DOLLAR (Live)

13. FIELDS

14. BRAVE MAN

15. IONA

16. BLOOD AND SOIL

George has said
“SKIDS / BIG COUNTRY /STUART ADAMSON FANS.

I am placing the jacket that Stuart has on in this picture up for auction and ALL proceeds will go to the Mary Leishman Foundation charity.
The jacket was given to me by Stuart many years ago as a gift and its in my wardrobe doing nothing,I know some people would love this as a gift for someone or even for a memory of the man himself.

Stuart like myself was a friend of Jim Leishman and he would approve that the money raised would be going to such a good cause.”

The current winning bid is just over £300, to place a bid or contact George you can email him at the address below.
BID: eggo58@hotmail.co.uk

This gives people a chance to either get some Christmas presents early or treat themselves before the festive season bleeds them dry!!

All single CDs (including DigiPaks) are £6.99 including Delivery to the UK (£1 postage for Europe and £2 postage for Rest Of The World)

This means that the current deals are available for THE SKIDS faithful:

SCARED TO DANCE – http://shop.captainoi.com/shopexd.asp?id=153 – £6.99 inc UK DELIVERY

DAYS IN EUROPA – http://shop.captainoi.com/shopexd.asp?id=152 – £6.99 inc UK DELIVERY

THE ABSOLUTE GAME – http://shop.captainoi.com/shopexd.asp?id=154 – £6.99 inc UK DELIVERY

More news about The Singles Collection soon….

For those who couldnt make the dedication ceremony a fans video is now available to view online.

Fans travelled from Germany, Ireland and from across the UK so see the bench being unveiled on Saturday 24th September 2011.
A huge thanks goes out to Gwenda Matthews , Colin Gourlay, Allan ( Smid ) Smith , Jamie Davidosn , Fife Council , Contemporary Arts Dunfermline , PJ Molloys , Promotional Impressions , family , friends and the fans.

T-shirts are also available for anyone who wishes to buy one and £2 from each sale will go towards The Mary Leishman Foundation , many thanks to Mike at Promotional Impressions for this.

Listen and download the following link http://soundcloud.com/oddydoodle/the-skids-the-olympian/download

Scotlands Greatest Album will feature 3 tracks from 70s’, 80s’, 90s’ and the 00s’ the 3 winning tracks from each decade will then make the album.

Vewers will get the chance to interactively vote and choose track from the shortlist.

Among the 70s’ category  will be Into The Valley, so Skids fans can tune in and vote!

I have been speaking to some of the production team over the last few weeks and the program will also have a lot of interviews and guests on the show, including Bill Simpson who was recently asked to do an quick interview and chat about Into The Valley and its iconic bassline.

The program is initially schedule to be aired at the beginning of October.

You can read the article and more about this programme on the STV website  by clicking here, there is also a Facebook page where you can get involved in the big debate! More details and official statements to follow soon…

Joining the group is easy, simply visit the group page and look for the link near the top right hand side which will let you ask to join the group.

Once you have joined you can also add your Facebook friends to the group by clicking the “Add friends to group” link again near the top right hand side.

CLICK HERE FOR THE SKIDS FACEBOOK GROUP

The funds include those raised at the last major Skids Fans Gathering for a similar project at that time which was never completed.

The bench has now been manufactured and engraved with several sets of Stuart’s lyrics and fitted with a commemorative plaque.

Following a meeting between Gwenda Matthews and Colin Gourlay with two Council Reps in the Glen on Friday afternoon, they have now determined an agreed date for the unveiling of the bench on Saturday 24th September around 12:00 and a short dedication ceremony will take place at this time in a temporary location to the east of the pond until a permanent location is prepared on the west side of the pond following some new landscaping works to be completed before December 16th 2011 (the tenth anniversary of his passing).

related Facebook links you should visit
Memorial For Stuart Adamson

Facebook attendance reply page

The World Premiere of THE SOMNAMBULISTS is on Friday 14 October with additional screenings on Saturday 15 and Monday 17 October
Tickets go on sale to the public Monday 26 September via the BFI website (www.bfi.org.uk/lff)

Fri 14 | 21:00 | Vue Screen 3 PRIORITY BOOKING
Sat 15 | 15:30 | Vue Screen 3 PRIORITY BOOKING
Mon 17 | 13:00 | Vue Screen 3 PRIORITY BOOKING

Richard Jobson’s new film THE SOMNAMBULISTS surrounds 15 testimonies from British
servicemen and women who were involved in the Iraq conflict in Basra.
They have a ghostly presence as they talk about their experiences in a near documentary
style, after each testimony the camera glides into the lives that might have been and the
people they left behind.
Jobson says ‘Like many people I was angered by the Iraq war and like most people did
nothing about it. This is my response to that apathy. In the film although it appears that the
speakers are the ghostly presence, it is in fact we the audience who are the
Somnambulists, it is we who were sleep walking in the build up to the war and its tragic
aftermath.’
The story was heavily influenced by the work of photographer Joanna Kane who’s
exhibition The Somnambulists at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery left Jobson deeply
impressed by it’s haunting vision of the space between life and death.
The Somnambulists is produced by Richard Jobson and Alan McKenna for No Bad Films.
The Somnambulists was shot using the Canon 5Dmk2 and 7D

The Somnambulists on the BFI Website: http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/1808

Richard Jobson’s committed, imaginative response to our collective apathy to the war in Iraq.

Created as a response to our collective apathy to the war in Iraq, this new film marks something of an intriguing departure for Richard Jobson. Inspired by the photographs of Joanna Kane, whose haunting work explores the space between life and death, Jobson has gathered together the testimonies of servicemen and women participating in the conflict in Basra. Contributors are starkly but effectively filmed against a black backdrop, so we concentrate on their words, without distraction. Between these semi-documentary portraits are poetic fragments, glimpses of the lives they have left behind or might have had. Regular soldiers, a bomb disposal expert, a couple of medics and a commanding officer all bear witness to the recurring themes of the conflict: heat, dust, confusion, bravery, camaraderie, vulnerability, terror, loss. For the most part these are ordinary people sent to do an extraordinary job, and varied as their testimonies are, their cumulative effect leaves little doubt of the human cost and tragedy of this war. Jobson is a filmmaker who always works at the cutting edge of technology; here he uses that craft to powerful and memorable effect.

Sandra Hebron