Classic Dunfermline punk band the Skids will play a huge hometown gig at the City’s Glen Pavillion next year.

The show will take place on February 28, with support from local group Sunstinger, the Filthy Tongues, and the Armoury show.

The Skids are currently on tour, selling out venues across the UK. Frontman Richard Jobson said: “It’s absolutely incredible. We’ve had to add another London date, and most of the Scottish shows are sold out too.

“We’re into the second week now and it’s probably the toughest tour I’ve ever done. This week I’m doing six gigs, which I don’t even think I was doing in the heyday of the Skids.

“I think we’re going through our most successful period. We’re attracting more people and I’m probably the happiest I’ve ever been since we started doing this. I just feel liberated and excited.

“We’re doing it as a four piece, and I haven’t done that since the days of Stuart Adamson.

“Two guitars in the band were too much, that was a big mistake. When you have two it’s just a wall of sound. One really does it much better because you really get to hear all of the melodies that Stuart created, which I think got lost a bit.

“I’m taking it right back to its roots and how it should sound. 

The legacy of Stuart Adamson, who played in both the Skids and Big Country, lives on in the band’s music. Mr Jobson said: “We’re playing the whole of Days in Europa. I was worried that people would be thinking ‘where’s the obvious songs?’, but it’s been absolutely fine.

“The album has become a massive tribute to him. It was probably when him and I were closest as friends and songwriters.

“He was a very proud person who supported Dunfermline Athletic and stayed in the town.”

Fans of the Pars will be familiar with the iconic Skids track “Into the Valley”, which the team walk out to before home games at East End Park.

Mr Jobson said that he’s keen to explore the connection between the club and the band in the coming year.

The city, or town as it was in the band’s early days, has been a huge part of the Skids and Mr Jobson’s musical journey. He said: “Dunfermline’s always had a very healthy and strong musical heritage. There’s always been great musicians in the town.

“We had the iconic Kinema Ballroom which hosted everybody from David Bowie to the clash. It was a fairly iconic place, and I wish somebody would bring it back again.

“The Kinema became a major part of our story. We recorded a covers album two years ago called hymns from a haunted ballroom, which was a kind of homage to the venue and how it influenced the Skids through the songs we used to listen to there on a Thursday night.

"We gigged there loads and loads of times, and it was always a big moment at the end of the tour. We played there with the clash, but when we headlined our own show it was like a very special thing that happened in our lives.

“You’ve got to remember that we were so young, when I first joined the band I was a kid just out of St Columbus and then I was in a rock and roll band. It all happened very quickly.”

Discussing the upcoming gig, he said: “It’s going to be quite a bill, it’s like a mini festival we’re putting on.

“My band The Armoury Show is also playing that night, so I’m doing two gigs. We’ll be playing about half a dozen songs from our last album.

“We know most of the bands here because a lot of people move around. Our drummer sometimes plays with Sunstinger, but he’s also in loads of bands in Dunfermline.”