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Born in 1960 in Kirkcaldy (Scotland), the singer-songwriter has more than one string to his bow. He likes to play with words and notes as much as images…
Undeniably at ease investing the texts of Marguerite Duras (or his own for that matter) on a minimalist orchestration, like the heartbreaking “India Song” on the album “The Ballad of The Etiquette” in 1981, he is just as much at ease keeping the flame of the Skids, heroes of Scottish punk, alive with notably “Into The Valley” or “The Saints Are Coming”. With Sturat Adamson in its midst, the Skids were also in a certain way the matrix of Big Country, another champion of epic Scottish rock. Both Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde, Richard Jobson takes a mischievous pleasure, to this day, in reconciling water and fire…
Alongside his musical career, Jobson has also written and directed a number of feature films that have often remained confined to the UK. Notable examples include “16 Years Of Alcohol” (2003), “New Town Killers” (2008) and “The Somnahbulists” (2012).
When, many years later, Richard Jobson discovered the photo that illustrates this article (taken at the Café Der Hallen in Leuven (Belgium) in February 1982), he immediately remembered the frosty reception he received that evening. An audience not very sensitive to poetry. Which probably explains his very pretty grimace…
