Richard Jobson (television presenter)
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Richard Jobson (born April 6 1960 in Fife) is a Scottish television presenter and film-maker.
He was formerly lead singer with the punk rock group, The Skids, who had a hit in 1979 with Into the Valley.
Though he would found another rock band called The Armoury Show - named after a 1913 New York modernist art exhibition, Jobson and a later Skids 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 Astley and Jobson were doing sessions at Crepescule Records,a label founded by rich Belgians and both Jobson and John Foxx (formerly of 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 Astley and Nicky Holland appeared as backup singers with Astley also playing flute on the single Fields.
Both artistes had found a common 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 Astley, 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 Astley's brother Jon. Amongst a lot of strange-sounding 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 Astley and Jobson do a Japanese tour to promote his album "An Afternoon In Company" . Much of Jobson's spoken word material for the Cocteau and Crepuscule labels has now been [reissued on CD] by the LTM label.
After cutting another album Jobson entered his next career as a TV presenter, beginning with the Garden Party on STV, to The Clothes Show, before eventually becoming a presenter on Sky Television. Jobson also appeared in an episode of Neighbours From Hell, when a neighbour decided to start breeding pigs.
In the 1990s he began a career as a film director, producer and writer.
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