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http://thecorknews.ie/articles/%E2%80%98i-am-half-corkonian%E2%80%99-9701 I do gigs with my own crowd, but its a bit more of a weight really with the Boomtown Rats. The band arose out of an economic social condition and we actually ended the band with an u...
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/18004A55E0B98766?artistid=1090482&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1-- Edited by ArrGee on Thursday 21st of February 2...
...as he prepares to re-unite with his Boomtown Rats, he talks to Barry Egan in this weeks Sunday Independent. http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/exclusive-content/in-this-weeks-sunday-independent-29101510.html#sthash.5nz1QFrA.dpuf
http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/geldof-reckons-rats-deserve-top-billing-223512.html"...we were never accepted by the cultural Taliban in the UK. It always drove us nuts that pe...
Hi folks, there is a new band photo on the website that I thought you might like to see: www.TheBoomtownRats.com -- Edited by BTR on Thursday 21st of February 2013 05:24:51 PM
An ad from Aiken Promotions appeared on RTE Radio 1 during the Pat Kenny Show mid morning advising that tickets go on sale for The Boomtown Rats Cork gig at 9am tomorrow!Normally only really heavyweight gigs get promo spots on radio,and the Pat Kenny show is the most listened to radio show in Ireland....
Just a bit of fun really. After being away for over 25 years the Rats comeback is extraordinary. What other comebacks can you think of that rank right up there? Apart from Lazarus in the bible? Liverpool 0-3 down at half time in Champions League. Various soap stars coming back from the dead on tv?Sharon...
Some interesting dates on the bobgeldof.com website. Solo or with the Rats? The two days prior to the Isle of Wight festival?Friday 14th June Heilbronn - FrankenstadionSaturday 15th June Gräfenhainichen - FerropolisFriday 21st June Bocholt - Stadion am Hünting Saturday 22nd June At. Wende...
I know Garry played with Bob & Pete in Dublin I know Gerry turned up at the 100 club with Simon & Garry I know Garry played with Bob & Pete on Geldof's album I know Bob turned up in Camden for Simon & Garry I know Pete turned up in Blackheath for Simon & Garry I know Simon saw Bob & Pete...
I would imagine that the reunited Rats will play a warm up gig or two prior to their IOW appearance. Most bands do prior to touring/festivals and i would imagine its even more important bearing in mind that Bob and Pete will be joining in. These type of gigs are usually very low key and notification is no...
Hiya, I was wondering if anybody could help me.... I recently brought a copy of A Tonic for the Troops from a charity shop, the woman told me that this version was special and i should check out if it was worth anything. I got home, checked on Discogs i cant seem to find this copy on there. Basically, the ca...
Interviews in the Evening Standard, The Times and The Telegraph.Warm up datesTV appearance on Jonathan Ross/Graham NortonInterviews on Radio 2Scathing NME review on 19th June 2013I Don't Like Mondays appearing in the lower reaches of the iTunes chartNo crosswords from suss What else?
First of all I'm delighted the Rats will be performing together again but I was just thinking about the various motives. I suspect to a large degree it is friends getting who in the past have achieved remarkable success in the music business. I doubt there is too much of a financial motivation. More lik...
Only 2 or 3 weeks to go until BBC4 show the edition where the Rats enter at 28 with Looking After No. 1. The actual performance lurks about somewhere on You Tube I think as well. Been quite good of late and you can sense punk/new wave jostling for attention alongside Donna Summer, David Soul, Abba, Jackso...
The end of the record shop. Have to confess I went into HMV and Fopp during the week and bought nothing, so I have played my part in their demise. That said I didn't buy anything in Music & Video Exchange either as all the LPs in the bargain basement had dropped to 10p and the racks were empty bar the u...
Ratified (public rehearsals)Saturday 4th May 2013 - Hurtwood Park Polo Club, Surrey, UKFriday 7th June 2013 - The Gate, Ifield, Sussex, UKThe Boomtown RatsSunday 16th June 2013 - Isle of Wight Festival, UKFriday 5th July 2013 - Live at the Marquee, Cork, IrelandSunday 7th July 2013 - Seenl...
If you look at a post and you are not looged in and then you log in, you won't be able to reply to it until you hit CTRL-F5 This is a fault and I shall be bringing it up with Sparlit/Activeboard.
if so why dont u try this FREE discussion forum: http://www.seriousstuff.org/ recently created on jan 1st 2013 lets get down n serious! not sure of all the rules of this forum so apologies in advance if it has to be deleted. Joan x
http://www.hotpress.com/politics/frontlines/Poetry-in-motion/9355427.html?new_layout=1&page_no=3&show_comments=1My older brother got A Tonic For The Troops free with a Hot Press subscription back in 1978, recalled E. OConnor. We just played it like crazy. This was the so...
http://www.ents24.com/web/event/The-Class-of-77-A-Very-Special-Christmas-Concert-G-Live-Guildford-2870740.htmlDecember 2012Saturday 22nd Class of 77. G Live Guildford with From The Jam and The BlockheadsSunday 23rd Class of 77....
Hi everyone- not sure what people think of this song but I really have always loved it-back in the day I couldnt understand why it failed to chart and signalled a decline in the Rats fortunes.It just sounds so defiant even though the lyrics are a bit wooly and vague. At least the Rats could be unpredictab...
There is a feature in the Daily Mail (April 23) about a photographer, Brian Aris. Amongst the photos printed is a great one of Bob and Paula's wedding with Johnny Fingers, Garry and Simon as well as Bowie and some of Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet!
Would be great to see a few more than the usual suspects at these 2 gigs.Staying at the Mandol which is opposite the gig for Guildford.Cant make my mind up if im gonna drive back after Bristol or not.Anybody got any ideas of anywhere to stay close to the academy.
Saw Dick Whittington in Woking - the Rat King sang London Calling and Going Underground! Was hoping they would finish with Rat Trap but no luck Still very good - oh no it wasn't ..... oh yes it was!
http://www.shieldsgazette.com/lifestyle/entertainment/music/live-review-class-of-77-the-sage-gateshead-1-5254046The Rats, up first, were the surprise of the night, though singer Bob Bradburys spiked up hair was more Troll-doll than punk.St...
Having just posted a quote from Bob in another thread suggesting that either his views on atheism are inconsistent or changing/evolving ... I want to raise another issue/ ask a question How are Bob's views on Ireland changing/evolving? In "Is That It" Bob tells of how he longed to get awa...
V Deep was a commercial low point for the Rats, after the first four albums, but I was wondering if In The Long Grass sold more copies on the back of Geldof's involvement with the African famine effort, than V Deep? Neither album I don't think reached the Top 100 albums charts around the time of their re...
... a semi serious one, but I'm on the look out for a really cool Rats T-shirt. What I would like is a white shirt with the trademark Tonic for the Troops paint dripping, and THE BOOMTOWN RATS subtley embroided in yellow. Now I guess getting something customised like this will cost a few bob, but some que...
I was looking at youtube the other day and found someone had posted three songs from the harlow gig.The songs are,mondays,joey and she does it right ,all of which are in focus and not bad at all.On mondays the camera turns to the audience and you can clearly see suss,wes,me and mrs do the rat.There is pro...
Just noticed incorrect, or a fans own version of the lyrics for Real Different appearing on Hotlyrics.net. The correct lyrics appear on the insert for the re- release of Surfacing overseen by Geldof and Briquette. Its interesting and somewhat amusing to read this version by in all honesty without t...
That won't get anyone buying the re-releases! Not that it's really bad, but it is probably one of the lesser Rats tracks (still can't believe it made the best of ahead of House on Fire).
I realise that Kicks (which would be great to hear) would sound ridiculous sung by a 50-y-o, and there...
I've always been a bit intrigued and puzzled by the line from I Can Make It If You Can -'And down the road I'm told five people died...' Is it based on some real event or is it just fiction-feels a bit funny to just make up. The idea I've always held, with no proof, is that it might be a reference to some atrocit...
Who's the second best Bob in music? Dylan? Marley? Segar? Robert 'Bob' Smith of the Cure? late eighties indie band called Bob?Bob Mould of Husker du? Robert Forster of The Go Betweens?
With all the line up changes in the new Rats it got me thinking if any of us here on the forum have ever fantasized about getting up on the stage and singing a song or two, backed by Simon and Gary and the rest of them. Does anyone think they could hack it on stage and bring their Bob Geldof fantasies to life? J...
I am loving it. However, some questions keep going around in my head. Well 2. 1. Where did Bob find the book by Leslie Shepherd? Words from his own mouth - in a second hand book shop and on the piano of a friend... so which is it? 2. Bob describes himself as an atheist. Like me then. However, he refers...
This is Tina on Ian's login. Ian is still in hospital but is recovering well.Room 19 Bob Geldof's new Internet Radio ShowBroadcasted on TCR FM 106.8 Recording has just started for the first internet radio broadcast of Room 19, which will be aired weekly on a day and time to be announced. It will be pres...
Hi. i just finish to listen the all the new Bob's cd and these are my vote (with a school): How i roll 8 Blow fish 6,5 She's a lover 7 To live in love 6+ Silly pretty thing 7 Systematic 6-pack 4 Dazzled by you 5 Mary says 7 How 7,5 Here's to you 7 Young and sober 6 Ciao
Why the fcuk do they bother? Richard Gresswell @RichGresswellIt's Monday with #Bangles #Carpenters #HappyMondays & #BoomtownRats on MusicEnglish http://www.musicenglish.co.uk #elt #efl #esl #literacy2h Ewen Jappy @ewenjappyMonday down!! #boomtownrats #idontlikemondays2h...
What the fcuk! You have to log in but May 3. I hope he can still open that gatefold of DITHON. No fcuking way am I heading to Malta on vacation! -- Edited by ArrGee on Monday 19th of November 2012 08:30:12 PM
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http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=eCJ9lSoq2Zw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DeCJ9lSoq2Zw&gl=GB. The usual inspirational stuff -- Edited by ArrGee1991 on Thursday 15th of November 2012 07:41:00 PM
Anyone looking for a really good music read this Christmas could do no worse than getting hold of a copy of Retromania, by music journalist Simon Reynolds. It's certainly the best book about the current malaise in the music industry I've read. One really interesting chapter covers the naughties, wh...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv-9qKOncgE Interesting stuff. Never really remember hearing Gerry speak back in the day and was certainly more used to Bob/Fingers or Bob/Simon arrangements on this score. Of all the 'duo' scenarios, this always seemed more awkward generally, but in this sce...
Gig as part of Class of 77 tour has been on RAM for some time but no tickets selling yet that I can find. Venue not even showing the date as booked. Realise I could ring venue or poss ask band, but for benefit of others and myself, any chance BTR could shed some light on whether it's confirmed or going on sale a...
http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=2829 Good site above and shows LANO to be the only single of theirs to arrest the usual steady decline after a peak and go back up again, so on 22/10/77 it was actually higher than it had been on 03/09/77
Usual provisos, all dates are subject to cancellation/revision, partciularly those in RED, so check with the venues. =============================================================================Saturday 20th October 2012 - The Shire Horse, Willow Brook Rd, Corby, Northants TBCSa...
Leafing through the online Smash Hits archives, I get the impression they rarely gave the Rats a good review. This for Banana Republic: Delayed by legal wrangles, doubted by the press...I'd rather be in Iran than be in the Boomtown Rats. Having switched the lp title from something mind-expanding to...
Dear Mods, Sticking this query on other stuff but relates to Rats and/or BG. Would it be possible to consider a gallery where forum users could load pics for posterity/comment? I'm thinking of things like pics with the band/BG (old or new), BG, photos from gigs, venues (would be great to see some long f...
But sadly not in any exciting sense.... I know it's well documented and discussed that music press turned on Rats but until browsing eBay just now I hadn't realised the industry in general was anti. There's a 'Heartlands' 18 track compilation with an Irish/Celtic bent that somehow manages to list...
I'm starting this thread in the hope that members will post sensible questions for Bob.......and maybe (who knows?) we might get the best ones forwarded onto him and even get some answers...........? So I'll start by asking........ Were there any profits from the Live 8 gigs and, if so, where have th...
...or not if you're A.Chappell.See entry part way down in link below http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
http://liverpoolstudentmedia.com/2012/09/the-boomtown-rats-the-boomtown-rats-35th-anniversary-retrospective/In the North, the Irish people had the ordinary, the cheerful but ultimately brilliant Th...
Anybody got any nominations for the worst or weakest Rats song lyrics. The vast majority of the bands songs had great to very good words but occasionally some of the lyrics were a letdown. I have always found the lyrics to Kicks to be a bit well aimed at the adolescent vote, coming across as a bit false. H...
I'm getting on a review-writing kick for BG/BTR stuff. So here's my review of V Deep (remastered version) - any and all opinions of this album are welcome in terms of favorite/least favorite songs, comparing it to other albums, etc... He Watches It All one of the prettier-sounding tr...
Geldof claims that Do The Know Its Christmas was originally a song rejected from the Long Grass period and he just changed the words to suit the evolving situation in Ethopia. I can't imagine how the song would have been with different lyrics and I don't rate Do They Know.. much . Of course it didn't matt...
Have always preferred the album mix of this rather than the single mix, except I do prefer the fade out to the single rather than the album's end with the first lines repeated. I prefer the extended middle instrumental aspect of the album mix and the slower build up at the start without the immediate dr...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRdUUzcwdPQ Sounds rather hoarse but good clip nevertheless, seemingly from the Surfacing days. Looks like a European venue despite the Japanese text that accompanies. Anyone any idea when/where it was recorded?
Lookin' after no. 1 1977 is one of the years on Pick of the Pops this week This week 35 years ago, it was at 17 Where have the years gone?! Next week it will be at 13 and it's not listed as being on TOTP on BBC4 then so presumably, the week after when it will be at its highest position (11), it will get an airing ...
Uploaded to You Tube recently. I always thought this song distinctly average, but with listening to recent live versions and watching the above (is it me or does it sound faster than normal?), it is really growing on me. There's a great defiance to the lyrics and lots of swooping harmonies and, as eve...
The Glastonbury alternative.... Saturday 27th June 2009 PARTY ON THE FARM - Edolphs Farm, Charlwood. Surrey RH6 0EB http://www.theratsatedolphs.co.uk £20 Such a shame, I'm off to Kuwait. Saves me a decision with Ray Davies playing Kenwood House in Hamptead the same night. Still with a bit o...
OK, I'm bored and it's raining and there's nothing to do - though have had a fantastic summer holiday, just now feel a bit jaded with school/work about to start again and more rain no doubt. I can't even muster any enthusiasm to join in with all the recent posts about splleing miskates - but then proof-r...
Had a quick squizz to see if this had been discussed before but couldn't spot it...only albums. I was always (even then) slightly disappointed with Rats covers and felt other bands managed more memorable or edgy artwork, but given the choices I'd say.... Best - Rat Trap or Dave - simple band shots, pre...
Uploaded yesterday. Gerry must have left after May '81 as he appears in backing vocals role with Simon, like the 'Fridays' clip elsewhere on You Tube. Garry on drums which I've never seen before. Bob at times seems to find the interviewer tiresome but overall it's fascinating stuff and shows what gem...
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