Punk band Skids and post-punk act Theatre of Hate play The Drill, the historic former drill hall turned arts venue in Lincoln.
Skids and Theatre Of Hate are playing The Drill on Sunday 13 December, two bands from the punk and post-punk era sharing one bill. It's a double bill that pulls from two different ends of the scene: the Scottish punk of Skids and the gothic, post-punk sound of Theatre Of Hate.
Skids formed in 1977 around Richard Jobson, and they're best known for their 1979 top-ten hit 'Into The Valley'. They went on to influence later acts like Green Day and the Manic Street Preachers, and they've kept working long after the first wave of punk had passed. In 2017 they marked their 40th anniversary with Burning Cities, their first new album in 35 years, and their third record, The Absolute Game, reached number nine in the UK charts.
Theatre Of Hate were 80s post-punk and gothic rock fixtures fronted by Kirk Brandon, who later formed Spear Of Destiny. Their sound followed a similar path to John Lydon's Public Image Ltd, and they were a regular presence in the post-punk scene of the time. Between the two, you've got the punk energy Skids brought to the late seventies and the darker, gothic edge Theatre Of Hate carved out in the eighties.
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Both are playing The Drill, which opened in 1890 as the Drill Hall and served as a military training facility before it was refurbished into a cultural hub for live music, theatre, comedy and community activities. It holds around 500 people, so it's a decent-sized room for a double bill like this. Doors are at 19:00, and tickets are £33.00 including fees, with a £3.00 booking fee on top.
