Venue:

The Gov, Adelaide

Date: 10/05/2024

First time to The Gov. In fact, my first concert over here, so that’s about 4 years. A great venue – dark and confined indoors, and a nice garden area outdoors where Sharon could sit, listen, and not get deafened. Friendly staff everywhere.

The support were enthusiastic, which is 80% of the battle for a Jam covers band.

But we were all there for The Skids – which was really Richard Jobson and a band. In and out in just over an hour. I didn’t feel at all short changed by that, as it was enough time for the greatest hits and couple of new tracks, all really well done. Not quite Stuart Adamson on the guitar, but close.

Jobson is the consummate front man, and had the audience wrapped round his finger. Humour, stories, brief tribute to previous band members, and a recurrent Leo Sayer gag. He knew that everyone was there to hear the greatest, so the new stuff was introduced with a semi apology that he hoped we didn;t mind them.

I hope I’m in a good a shape as him when I’m 64; hell, I’d be happy if I … Continue reading The value of the front man – Richard Jobson and The Skids