No Skidding.. we’re so proud to be part of these great awards
Punk legends can’t wait to meet finalists
WE REVEAL THE STARS LINED UP TO PLAY AT OUR BIG NIGHT
The countdown is on for the biggest event of the year – and the stars are out in force for the Sunday Mail Great Scot Awards.
We are just six days away from the people’s awards and today we reveal the massive names who will be performing live for our winners, nominees and special guests.
Legendary punk outf it Skids, whose comeback has been a huge success, and newcomer turned international sensation Lewis Capaldi will play their hits at the event in Glasgow’s Doubletree Hilton.
Skids frontman Richard Jobson is thrilled to be part of the Great Scots – after performing a special 7Nights Session for us at King Tut’s in January – because “it actually means something”.
Richard, 58, said: “It ’s celebrating people who do good things.
“I a lways f ind award ceremonies are a bit painful, back-patting, a bit naff. I avoid them like the plague but this is different – it’s really people who have done amazing things and overcome huge problems.
“It’s about good people and why not give them an accolade?
“It’s always the same people being told they’re great, which becomes sl ightly dul l. It’s almost embarrassing and contrived but the Great Scots are real.
“It’s more emotional. You champion people who have done something incredibly difficult. It is magical.”
Richard admits the success of the Skids’ return has taken the band by surprise and is delighted they can use that status to help charities and deserving people l ike our Great Scots.
The group promise fans they will deliver a trademark Skids performance at the awards – and they have a surprise in store for next year.
Richard added: “A lot of fans come to these shows and they’re reliving a moment of their youth so it’s my job to deliver the goods. I have seen a lot of my contemporaries and they go through the numbers. We are the opposite – we put a show on.
“After the tour, playing places like the Barras and Albert Hall, we’re going to do an acoustic album, new songs and versions of the old ones too.
“We have done a few sessions and songs you never imagine would work are really working amazingly.
“This year has been the most remarkable year with my debut novel, biography and new album. If you asked me a year ago, I’d have laughed if you told me all this would happen.”
Lewis, the 22-year-old from Whitburn, West Lothian, ha s r o c k e t ed to stardom over the past 18 months after sel f - r e leas ing his debut single Bruises.
Since then, he’s played huge shows all over the world, massive festival stages and released a string of emotional anthems – and now he’s set for the Great Scots.
He said: “It’s an amazing thing. Last year I saw that Gerry Cinnamon had won an award and it looked class, just a great thing to be involved with.
“Seeing people being recognised for doing great things that might otherwise go unnoticed is something really special.
“The people doing these things aren’t doing it for praise or awards – but that makes it even more important that they get acknowledged for it.
“It’s quite a humbling thingng to be involved with. It putsuts things in perspective for you.u.
“To be asked to come alongng is a real honour.”