At age 17 Richard Jobson was the front man for the scottish punk band 'The Skids', who had a string of hits in a 2 year period from 1979 to 1981, the biggest being the top 10 hit 'Into The Valley'. The band was formed by Jobson and his friend Stuart Adamson who went onto create Big Country. Jobson went on to become part of the critically successful 'The Armoury Show' before moving onto a long period of making spoken word poetry recordings for the Belgian label Les Disques Du Crépuscule including an adaptation of the Marguerite Duras novella '10.

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