LONDON ‼️ The Skids celebrate 'The Absolute Game' LP with very special guests The Vapors on Friday 30th January. GET TICKETS 👉👉 bit.ly/TheAbsoluteGame The Skids celebrate their third studio album 'The Absolute Game', which was their most commercially successful album reaching #9 in the UK album charts. 'The Absolute Game' featured the singles 'Circus Games', 'Goodbye Civilian' and 'Woman in Winter'. The Skids are a punk/new wave band who formed in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1977. They went on to

On this date in 1980, SKIDS released the single CIRCUS GAMES, (July 28th, 1980). Embellished by a school choir, the first single to be released from the sessions for the band’s third LP, THE ABSOLUTE GAME, was the anthemic CIRCUS GAMES. With Stuart Adamson's air-raid guitar breaking through the sequenced electro-pop opening, the song revealed as yet unheard textures on a Skids single. It also gave us some of Jobson's finest lyrics to date with priests, jails and juries all making an appearance.