The Skids formed in 1978 by Stuart Adamson (later to form Big Country) and Richard Jobson (later to become a sad fashion icon) and spent 60 weeks in the single charts in the late '70s / early '80s. Three chart singles off this album (the last with Stuart Adamson) were on the charts for 14 weeks - "Circus Games", "Goodbye Civilian" and "A Woman In Winter". Indeed, this was the Skids biggest charting album peaking at #9 in September 1980.