The Skids & Theatre of Hate

Skids and Theatre of Hate share a bill on a co-headline UK tour, with a Leeds date at Brudenell Social Club, a concert and performance venue in Burley. Both acts come from the punk and post-punk years of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Skids were formed in 1977 in Dunfermline, Scotland, and are a punk rock and new wave band. Their debut album, Scared to Dance, appeared in 1979, and the group has been active again since 2016. Richard Jobson was one of the four founding members, and the current line-up is a four-piece with Jobson alongside Peter Byrchmore, Hernandez on drums and Connor Whyte on guitar.

Theatre of Hate are a British gothic rock band formed in London in 1980. Kirk Brandon started the group out of the punk outfit The Pack, and the band's debut album, He Who Dares Wins, was released on the Cherry Red label in 1982.

The tour pairs the two acts as co-headliners. The Leeds date takes place at Brudenell Social Club, a concert and performance venue at Queen's Road in Burley, where the bill suits listeners who follow British punk and gothic rock from that period.