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Richard Jobson is a Scottish filmmaker (director, writer, producer) who also works as a television presenter. He is also known as the singer-songwriter of Skids.
Jobson was born in Kirkcaldy, and grew up in Crosshill, Ballingry, Fife, the son of a miner and a worker at Rosyth Dockyard, attending St Columba’s Roman Catholic High School, Dunfermline. His family was of Irish Catholic descent.
Jobson is the lead singer with the art-punk rock group Skids. Jobson’s singing style with Skids was highly distinctive, and he wrote the lyrics, while Stuart Adamson wrote most of the music.
Scared to Dance, the first Skids album, featured the hit 1979 single “Into the Valley”, the group’s most successful single. Jobson appeared on BBC Television’s Top of the Pops singing it. The album also featured “The Saints are Coming”.
In September 2006 it was announced that Green Day and U2 were to record a cover version of the song for charitable purposes. Jobson said that he had written the song about the death of a friend in the British Army. Much of Scared to Dance features local references, and also Jobson’s fascination with the two world wars.
The fourth and final album by Skids, Joy, was almost entirely written by Jobson and Russell Webb, as the other two band members left, one of whom was Jobson’s long-time songwriting partner Stuart Adamson who moved on to form his new band Big Country.
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Richard Jobson is a Scottish filmmaker who also works as a television presenter. He is also known as the singer-songwriter of Skids. He was born on October 6, 1960 (age 59 years old as of 2019), Kirkcaldy, United Kingdom
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Richard Jobson was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Former lead singer of the Skids who went on to work in television and film as a producer and director. He’s known for the movies 16 Years of Alcohol, The Purifiers, and New Town Killers. His net worth is not yet revealed but stays ready for the update soon
Post-Skids activities
Although he later formed another rock band with Russell Webb and John McGeoch called The Armoury Show—named after a 1913 New York modernist art exhibition—Jobson and Webb also became a vital part of the career of Virginia Astley, which began in 1980. Webb co-produced her first album From Gardens Where We Feel Secure.
Both Astley and Jobson were recording sessions for Les Disques Du Crépuscule, a Belgian record label, and Jobson made several LPs for the label, usually of poetry readings with Astley as his accompanist.
At the same time, the final Skids album Joy was released, Astley and Nicky Holland appeared as backing vocalists with Astley also playing flute on the single “Fields”.
Both artists had shared a common interest in the War Poets, a theme which was in evidence for Jobson’s first album Ballad Of Etiquette and which bore a credit for “Virginia & Josephine” (Wells). This album was released in November 1981 and peaked on the UK indie charts at number 24.
At the same time Astley, Nicky Holland, and Kate St John auditioned for Bill Drummond at the Zoo Club in Liverpool where they made their live debut.
Jobson was doing poetry readings at the Cabaret Futura Club, who issued an album on the Martyrwell label and which was engineered by Astley’s brother Jon Astley.
Amongst a lot of strange-sounding and difficult music was the first-ever recording by Kissing the Pink, where the “Josephine” from “Ballad Of Etiquette” came from, and who had been a music student in Manchester along with Virginia Astley.
For Crépuscule’s LP Fruits Of The Original Sin, Jobson performed a poem called “Homage To Marguerite Duras” with music by Astley.
He was married to Mariella Frostrup from 1979 to 1984.
In the mid-1980s Astley and Jobson toured Japan to promote his album An Afternoon In Company. Much of Jobson’s spoken-word material for the Cocteau and Crépuscule labels has been reissued on CD by the LTM label.
He has a daughter, Edieline, and a son, Archie.
Television and film career
In the 1980s Jobson became a presenter on 01 for London and as a film reviewer for Sky Television. In June 2013, Jobson was awarded an honorary degree (Doctor of Arts) from Edinburgh Napier University.
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Who is Richard Jobson Wife( Mariella Frostrup), Who is Richard Jobson Married to?
Who is Mariella Frostrup? is a Norwegian-Scottish journalist and presenter, known in British television and radio mainly for arts programs. Frostrup was born in Oslo, Norway, but moved with her family when she was six to Ireland in 1969, living in Kilmacanogue, a small village near the town of Greystones in County Wicklow.
Her Norwegian father, an alcoholic who died aged 44 when she was 15, was a journalist on The Irish Times, and her Scottish mother an artist. She has four siblings.
After the death of her father, in 1977 she moved to London. There she worked as a public relations executive for Phonogram Records between 1980 and 1990; coordinated the publicity for the Live Aid concert at Wembley in 1985; and, after leaving Phonogram, started television work as a presenter and film critic.
Frostrup presented the Channel 4 music show Big World Cafe in 1989 alongside Eagle Eye Cherry and Jazzie B.
She also presented Thames Television’s Video View from 1990 and, after Thames lost the London ITV franchise, reprised the role straight afterward on The Little Picture Show for Carlton Television from 1993.
Frostrup has interviewed many celebrities, writers and artists and has presented a variety of television programs, including one on travel, and has appeared in other television shows such as the series Have I Got News for You and the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
She made several guest appearances as herself in the series Coupling, including an episode where one of the characters fantasizes about her, then meets her in person. She has also appeared in fictionalized form in Michael Paraskos’s In Search of Sixpence.
She has written for The Daily Telegraph as a travel writer, The Guardian, The Observer, The Mail on Sunday, Harpers & Queen and the New Statesman. She is also an art critic and has been on the judging panels for the Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Evening Standard British Film Awards.
In September 2007 she chaired a question-and-answer session with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth, Dorset.
In 2008, Frostrup received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from Nottingham Trent University in recognition of her contribution and commitment to journalism and broadcasting.
She presented the BBC Radio 2 show The Green Room and is the regular presenter of BBC Radio 4 program Open Book, interviewing authors and publishers and reviewing new fiction and non-fiction books.
As the presenter of The Book Show on Sky Arts 1, she interviewed an extensive list of guests on their recent works and their “favorite heroes and heroines from fiction”. The show was canceled in 2013.
In December 2012, she appeared on the BBC Two series World’s Most Dangerous Roads, in which she and Angus Deayton were filmed driving along the east coast of Madagascar.
She is the voice in lifts on the London Overground. Her ‘gravelly’ voice is often used in television commercials and was voted the sexiest female voice on television.
In 2019, she presented a program for BBC Radio 4 called “Bringing Up Britain”.
Richard Jobson Books
The Speed of Life
2018
Tube Tales
1999