{"id":22412,"date":"2023-06-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=22412"},"modified":"2023-06-13T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T11:01:11","slug":"the-skids-destination-dusseldorf-last-night-from-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=22412","title":{"rendered":"The Skids – ‘Destination Dusseldorf’ (Last Night From Glasgow)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Destination Dusseldorf is the brand new studio album from Scotland’s legendary Skids. The band note Europe as an ongoing inspiration for the new LP; “from the beauty of the Renaissance to the savagery of many wars, the highs and lows have been there as an ongoing and ever-evolving influence. This new album follows in the footsteps of ‘Days In Europa’ as a celebration of friendship and shared experiences.” Boy, what a celebration it is. The whole album is an absolute triumph from the opening chord to the final crescendo there is clearly a lot of love, respect, craft and quality bled into the grooves of Destination Dusseldorf’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right from the off and the opening few bars you get the confident vibe oft opener ‘Open Your Eyes’ it’s a confident opener that like a ray of morning sunshine screaming through the curtains from Jobson’s vocal its a stomping thumping slice of Rock n Roll. The rolling drum beat and dirty riff it’s exactly what you want to hear the Skids doing. It’s a wide open broad brush stroke in vivid technicolour. It thumps straight into ‘Tidal Wave’ from the gushing opening riff and gang vocals its seconds out round two. It’s sunshine Rock n Roll, chest-beating and I have a feeling the band know they’re onto something and the trademark Celtic chimes on the guitar are kept on the down low which is great in my book and helps brand Skids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a cracking opening salvo, ‘Don’t Stop’ turns up the heat further with Jobson howling out the lyrics like a man who knows he’s performing some of the finest work of his career as the outwardly looking vocalist delivers knockout song after knockout song. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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