Richard Jobson (television presenter)
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Richard Jobson (born April 6 1960 in Fife) is a Scottish television presenter.
He was formerly lead singer with the punk rock group, The Skids, who had a hit in 1978 with Into the Valley.
Though he would found another rock band called The Armoury Show---named after the poem he recited on the compilation album From Brussels With Love, Jobson and a later Skid member Russell Webb would become a vital part of the career of Virginia Astley,which began in 1980. Webb would co produce her first album From Gardens Where We Feel Secure by arranging all the live SFX.
Both Virginia and Jobson were doing sessions at Crepescule Records,a label founded by rich Belgians and both Jobson and John Foxx (Ultravox) were shareholders. Jobson made many LPs for the label,usually of poetry readings and Virginia was his accompanist. At the same time the final Skids album Joy was released and both Virginia and Nicky Holland appeared as backup singers with Virginia also playing flute on the attendant single Fields.
Both artistes had found a comnmon 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 LP was on the indie charts at the time Virginia, 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 Virginia's brother Jon. Amongst a lot of strange souding 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. For Crepescule's LP "Fruits Of The Original Sin",Jobson performed a poem called "Homage To Marguertte Duras" with music by Virginia Astley.
The mid 80s saw both Virginia and Richard Jobson do a Japanese tour to promote his album "An Afternoon In Company" . After cutting another album Jobson entered into his next career as a TV presenter, beginning with the Garden Party on Scots TV, to The Clothes Show on UK wide tv until before eventually becoming a presenter on Sky Television. As a sort of postscript,Jobson also appeared in an episode of Neighbours From Hell, though it should be pointed out the neighbour in question was not him but a man who'd decided to start breeding pigs next door to the Jobsons.