Talk:The Skids

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The band is not "The Skids" it's "Skids". What a fundamental error. All references and related pages should be changed. -- Robin726 13:27, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

No it's not a "fundamental error", it's nitpicking. While I'm aware of other bands like "Pixies" having the same error, there are instance where they refer to themselves as both.--MacRusgail 14:00, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Their official website is also http://www.theskids.com/

So the website has got it wrong too, is that any reason to follow suit? Maybe the other domain name was not available? Maybe they are too slack to be consistent? It is not nitpicking to want to get someone's name right in an authoritative encyclopedia, even if it might sometimes be used in error elsewhere. Look at any one of their record sleeves to see the correct way to write their name. Sheesh! Robin726 17:01, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 30th Anniversary Gigs

Should something should be said on the page about the 3 gigs for their 30th celebration? Being the 4th and 5th July at Glen Pavilion in Dunfermline, and the 7th, at T in the Park festival. Line up - Jobson, Baillie, Simpson with Bruce Watson of Big Country, and his son Jamie, on guitars and Jane Button and Brian Jobson on backing vocals. Honey power 00:24, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, give it a paragraph of its own. Not the original line-up, but with a nod to Adamson anyway. --MacRusgail 15:23, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Line-up Changes

In my view, the info box coverage of the band's line-up changes does not need to detail every session musician that ever recorded with the band. However, if others think this information is significant, perhaps a new section in the career biography section should be created? Yozzer66 (talk) 17:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)