As 70s Scottish punk band Skids make their Hong Kong debut, frontman Richard Jobson is thrilled to play favourite city
- Skids frontman Richard Jobson talks about his love for Hong Kong, his hero Bruce Lee, and joining the Scottish band in 1977 as a 16-year-old punk
- Now 63, the singer and filmmaker is thrilled to make his Hong Kong debut at the Wanch, on April 30, and has a film in the works that’s set in the city
As a kid growing up in a small Scottish town, Richard Jobson, frontman with punk rockers Skids, plastered his bedroom walls with posters of his hero, Hong Kong martial arts legend Bruce Lee.
It was the beginning of a love affair with the city that continues to this day.
“I’ve travelled everywhere, but my favourite place in the world is Hong Kong,” Jobson says by phone from Britain, about to board a train to a gig in the city of Lincoln. “I feel very at home there.”
On April 30 at The Wanch, Skids will play their first Hong Kong gig as part of their 45th anniversary greatest hits tour.
Formed in 1977, Skids made it big in Britain with breakout anthems “Into the Valley”, “Working for the Yankee Dollar” and “Masquerade”. Wider appeal followed when their song “The Saints Are Coming” was covered by U2 and Green Day in 2006.