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Skids is a Punk rock act. Their sound grew out of Simple Minds, Big Country, The Clash, The Adverts and Sex Pistols. Those roots explain a lot about how Skids arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers, The Jam, Peter and the Test Tube Babies and Tom Robinson Band, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Manic Street Preachers, Kim Wilde, The Pogues, U2 and Green Day, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 35 connections around Skids, reaching back through Simple Minds and forward to Manic Street Preachers. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Skids are a Scottish punk rock and new wave band, formed in Dunfermline in 1977 by Stuart Adamson, William Simpson, Thomas Kellichan (drums) and Richard Jobson. Their biggest successes were the 1979 single "Into the Valley" and the 1980 album The Absolute Game. In 2016, the band announced a 40th-anniversary tour of the UK with their original singer Richard Jobson.
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Skids connections
Skids grew out of Simple Minds, Big Country, The Clash and The Adverts, shares an orbit with The Undertones, Stiff Little Fingers, The Jam and Peter and the Test Tube Babies, went on to shape Manic Street Preachers, Kim Wilde, The Pogues and U2. 35 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Skids
Sounds and acts that shaped Skids.
Artists similar to Skids
Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with Skids.
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