Richard Jobson (born 6 October 1960) is a Scottish filmmaker (director, writer, producer) who also works as a television presenter.
[1] Jobson was born in Kirkcaldy and grew up in Crosshill[2] and Ballingry in Fife,[3][4][5] the son of a miner and a worker at Rosyth Dockyard.
At the same time Astley, Nicky Holland and Kate St John auditioned for Bill Drummond at the Zoo Club in Liverpool where they made their live debut.
In 1983, Jobson formed another band with Russell Webb and John McGeoch, called The Armoury Show[1] — named after a 1913 New York modernist art exhibition.
For Crépuscule's various artists compilation LP The Fruit of the Original Sin, Jobson performed a poem called 'Homage To Marguerite Duras' with music by Astley.
Jobson became a presenter on arts magazine programme 01 for London[1] from 1988 to 1992, as well as being music reporter and interviewer across the same period for BBC daytime show The Garden Party.
He was also a film reviewer for Sky Television, and in the mid 1990s presented a late-night ITV series Hollywood Report that aired in many of the network's regions.