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PRINTED LINER NOTESjump to(Printed Credits | On Screen Credits (Concert) | On Screen Credits (Interview)) THE past, so they say, is a foreign country and it's one from which we're almost permanently exiled. With the passing of the years, the landscape shifts, transforms, reconfigures, until the traces of where we once were are erased from everywhere but our memories. Many of the landmarks that charted the progress of The Skids from their beginnings at the bleeding edge of Scottish punk to their role as one of the new wave's most influential forces have now gone entirely. You'll scour in vain the centre of Dunfermline for Spowart's warehouse — the chilly loft where they perfected their anthems of discontent during the winter of 1977. And the freezing (even in summer Victorian coach house where they distilled many of the songs on their second album Days In Europa has long since been flattened to ake way for a car park. The venues where they played some of their earliest, most explosive gigs - the Belleville, the Kinema Ballroom, Sound 70 - have been rehabilitated, refurbished and renamed. Back before time's embrace had its way, Stuart Adamson and Richard Jobson would regularly thread their way through the town, dreaming out loud as they headed home after spending the night running through songs with Skids co-founder Willie Simpson and the band's original faster-than-a-speeding-bullet drummer Tam Kellichan. One of the buildings they passed, maybe a hundred times or more on those journeys, was The Alhambra. And as they talked excitedly about what might happen and what kind of future might be mapped out for The Skids, it's not hard to imagine the ghosts of another age - silent film star Gladys Hulette, say, who appeared in the first movie to be screened in the building back in 1922 or music hall favourite Harry Gordon who played there a few years later - enjoying a wry smile at the intensity of that white-hot ambition. Nowadays, the wide-eyed kids (including a teenage punk gunslinger called Bruce Watson) who huddled into the corner of The Skids practice sessions to watch the kiss of inspiration transform into tracks of the calibre of Saints Are Coming, Of One Skin and the extraordinary Melancholy Soldiers, are all grown up. And the electrifying music that catapulted the band out of Dunfermline, to Top Of The Pops and beyond, has gone on to influence generations of bands, from Joy Division and U2 to Manic Street Preachers and Blur. Yet the original songs -- including Scared To Dance, Working For The Yankee Dollar and Circus Games -- are still as powerful as they ever were. For some, they're a precious route back to the foreign land that is now the past. For others, a glimpse of the future as it should have been.and still could be. So, for all sorts of reasons, when The Skids reunited - with a few old friends -- to storm the stage at The Alhambra for a special show as part of the Fifer Festival 2010, it was magical and then some. Sit back, relax and play very, very loud. TIM BARR ___________________________________________________ |
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The Skids Special Thanks to Animation The Skids live 2010 DVD was filmed by Richard Jobson and the team he works with on his movies. He was asked to take part in the Fifer Festival 2010, with one week in Dunfermline focusing on his body of work culminating in a Skids reunion at the Alhambra Theatre. The DVD mixes footage from an onstage interview with novelist Ian Rankin alongside classic Skids songs. Produced and directed by Richard Jobson at RJ Films / No Bad Films Running Time approx 70 minutes Aspect Ratio: 16:9 DVD 5 Video Disc Region 2 PAL UK E Exempt from classification © Copyright RJ Films / No Bad Films 2010 All Rights Reserved All unauthorised copying, public performance, broadcasting, hiring or rental strictly prohibited. Limited Edition DVD with Extras
NO BAD FILMS Skids Live 2010 Animation, Of One Skin, Melancholy Soldiers, Thanatos, Working For The Yankee Dollar, The Saints Are Coming, The Olympian, Charade, Masquerade and Into The Valley Scared To Dance and Charles Hurry On Boys, A Woman In Winter and Circus Games Fields courtesy of Virgin Records, published by EMI, ___________________________________________________ |
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{OPENING CREDITS} THE ALHAMBRA THEATRE IAN RANKIN RICHARD JOBSON As part of Fife's 2010 celebrations, Richard Jobson, The Skids were also invited to perform NOBAD FILMS PRESENTS THE SKIDS LIVE 2010 {CLOSING CREDITS} THE SKIDS LIVE 2010 Featuring MJM Management Tour Manager Production Manager Edited by Main Cameras Additional Cameras Interview at Alhambra FOH Engineer Monitor Engineer Lighting Designer Guitar & Bass Tech Drum Tech Archive & DVD Design Live gig remixed by Thanks to A © NOBAD FILMS 2010 ___________________________________________________ |
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{OPENING CREDITS} THE Alhambra, Dunfermline, Fife IAN RANKIN As part of Fife's 2010 celebrations, Richard Jobson, {CLOSING CREDITS} Written & Presented by Filmed by Edited by Special thanks to © NOBAD FILMS 2010
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