Skids-Now it's a "Farewell Tour"!

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the Skids are clearly racist. Fuck em if they can't be arsed coming to England :lol:
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manticore wrote:might just go to the inverness gig. might as well seeing its local and the last chance to see em.
got a ticket.
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released this weekend, this was a mighty fine session, dont think this session as a had an official release before, i can now bin my tdk c90 :lol:

download and enjoy..

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the stranglers in aberdeen last sunday and now the skids final gig in inverness next sunday. should be good.
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manticore wrote:the stranglers in aberdeen last sunday and now the skids final gig in inverness next sunday. should be good.
I thought the Skids at Inverness had been pulled due to poor ticket sales...
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mantheylovetohate wrote:
manticore wrote:the stranglers in aberdeen last sunday and now the skids final gig in inverness next sunday. should be good.
I thought the Skids at Inverness had been pulled due to poor ticket sales...
Ticketmaster showing cancelled!

Tickets still available for Glasgow.
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bloody bollocks. didnt know about this. what the hells wrong with inverness? i would have expected this to be popular. the ironworks never even contacted me to say. got a ticket from there for ten years after a year and a half ago,turned up and the place was closed. never mentioned anywhere. sod it. first i cant get to last fridays gig at the academy,now this. :smt010
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supposedly an unforseen schedule conflict. sounds like a load of waffle.
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mantheylovetohate wrote:
manticore wrote:the stranglers in aberdeen last sunday and now the skids final gig in inverness next sunday. should be good.
I thought the Skids at Inverness had been pulled due to poor ticket sales...
got my refund at the ticket office and the guy said they didnt know why the gig was pulled.it was the band themselves that cancelled and 300 tickets had already been sold. hmmm,somethings going on.
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The Skids at Dunfermline for me "for the last time ever" ...again! :grin:
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Roy Batty wrote:released this weekend, this was a mighty fine session, dont think this session as a had an official release before, i can now bin my tdk c90 :lol:

download and enjoy..

http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download- ... oduct.html
OR.....29th Aug 1978 & 19th Feb 1979 sessions are now on Spotify if you've got it?

29th Aug 1978
1. Dossier (Of Fallibility) (BBC John Peel Session)
2. Hope And Glory (BBC John Peel Session)
3. Six Times (BBC John Peel Session)
4. The Saints Are Coming/His Name Is John Peel (BBC John Peel Session)

& 19th Feb 1979
1. Summer (John Peel Session 19/2/79)
2. Hang On To The Shadows (John Peel Session 19/2/79)
3. Zit (John Peel Session 19/2/79)
4. Walk On The Wild Side (John Peel Session 19/2/79)
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Review don?
"They don’t come much better than The Stranglers when performing live; there is no pretence, no hiding place, just superb music"

Liverpool Sound and Vision March 8th 2013.
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