Richard Jobson (born 6 October 1960 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland) is the singer and co-founder of Scottish punk and new wave band The Skids, formed in Dunfermline in 1977. The band scored a UK top-10 hit with "Into the Valley" in 1979 and released three acclaimed albums before splitting in 1982. After the Skids, Jobson built a parallel career as a poet, television presenter and film director, most notably with the award-winning film 16 Years of Alcohol (2003). Since 2016 he has led a reformed Skids, and in 2025 he revived his post-punk side project The Armory Show with the new album Dead Souls.
The Armory Show, the post-punk project of Jobson, released the new album Dead Souls on March 28, 2025 via Last Night From Glasgow.
In February 2025, the Skids Weekender festival took place in Portmeirion, Wales, with both The Skids and The Armory Show performing.
The documentary The Story of Skids was released in 2026 in a limited collector's edition on blu-ray in an edition of 1000 copies.
In 2025, Jobson published his novel The Alabama Song, a sequel to The Kreuzberg Sonata (2024).
In 2024, Jobson's novel Another Dead Soul was released, inspired by the tragic deaths of artists such as Amy Winehouse and Avicii.
