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Hello:I was wondering if any of you had read "X-Ray" the unauthorized autobiography by Ray Davies? If so, what did you think of it? I just finished reading it this weekend and I really liked it. It really made me appreciate The Kinks music even more than I did befo...
They are always considered/categorised as Punk. Bob says they aren't. As much as I love punk, most of it was pretty much talentless noise and the only talented bands of that (supposed genre) were Blondie, The Stranglers and The Boomtown Rats. Personally I'd say all these bands were more contemporar...
Dr. Feelgood were absolutely central to the Boomtown Rats. When I heard Down by the Jetty, it just fcuking blew me away. The Feelgoods were in it for me. Our early live set used to be their entire first album. When I heard the line 'Stand and watch the towers burning at the brea...
LIVE 8— WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MADE
One Final Question SIR BOB GELDOF A year on from Live 8, he’s still making the world listen
Sir Bob, tell us about Live 8— What a Difference a Day Made...
It’s an hour-long film to mark the anniversary of Live 8 and it cuts between all ten of the concerts from around...
This is a fantastic new band.they recently supported Bon Jovi at the city of manchester stadium.their not signed yet tho. however they did a video diary recently for bbc north west news and are getting a lot of coverage.they're entered in a competition to play at the NME awards. they came into a...
So, TOTP is to be no more. A sad passing. I used to sit in front of the TV, screaming at the Beatles and you will of course remember the Rats at No 1. I used to love all the old DJs, Jimmy Saville, Tony Blackburn etc. They were all mad.
This is going to be repeated on Thursday. However, for those not in the UK or who don't get a chance to listen on Thursday or record it, you can listen over the internet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/
Part way down the page on the right hand side you'll see a listen again section, B...
Just seen the announcement on the site. Bob on Richard and Judy on Monday 19 June at 5pm. Set your videos everyone. That is my husband's birthday. Now do I cook him a nice meal or watch Bob? Easy, I dont do cooking anyway.
The Rocket Man came to Oxford last night.
This was a pretty big deal for this small city. In the 70s and early 80s we used to get all the top bands. Then suddenly our main theatre changed hands and the best we could do was an annual visit from Showaddywaddy!! Not exactly my scene. We have had the occasio...
With regard to the PM some forum members received from Willo via Tina.
I have removed a post on the main forum posted by MJ. If Willo or Tina or Ian want to post something they are free to. I won't have offensive private messages posted by proxy.
I see that Bob is going to Hell in June. I have also been there and returned safely. For all you Scandinavian fans, a chance to see him again. Hell is a town in Norway. I dont remember that there was much there, but of course everybody posed to get their photos taken with the signs for the town. I think there a...
I tried to post this last night - here's hoping this time ...
How bizarre. I've just watched a Melbourne-based variety show called 'Rove', where Bob was listed as one of the guests. Something was up at the start because in Rove's introduction, where he cracks really bad jokes and lists the guests for...
i thought i would start a new thred so we can all put our fave pics up of the very sexy bob
ADMIN: Fair enough, but two points.Make them a reasonable sizeIdeally just provide links through to them, and save us poor souls whose download has a monthly limit.-- Edited by ArrGee at 20:2...
In furtherance of "moving on," The Who are apparently streaming all their shows live this tour. They're not all free, but damned close to it (99 cent donation to charity - don't know what charity, haven't looked into it yet).
More info: http://thewholive.tv/frontdoor/
Just watching Midge Ure on BBC Breakfast news reporting on his visit to Sierra Leone. He says it is the worst place to be a child in the world. Few live to the age of 5. He was shocked to find such very slow progress. The cost of just registering for a doctor is 2 weeks wages Then that doctor ha...
Just a couple of days to go, before I go to see Bob in Belgium, where he’s playing at the peace-festival in Diksmuide next Friday! I didn’t allow myself to get too excited until now, because of the cancellations of last year... But now there’s only 5 days to go, and I’m really looking forward to it. :biggr...
Just to confirm that Bob is listed as being on the Open Book programme on Sunday 25 June on Radio 4.
15.00-15.30 GMT or 16.00-16.30 BST
Listen live on http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio
http://bobgeldof.blogspot.com/
All youse forum posse, youse better behave or I'll slag youse all off in my blog. Aye! I iz checking youse out. I iz off for a bit of erbal remedy now, innit.
bob-aka-shah ! -- Edited by ArrGee at 23:06, 2006-07-03
I wanted to put a couple of pics of Bob speaking at a conference on Africa at the Scottish Parliament on my "Bob Geldof Story" Flickr website.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/geldofstory/ So I did the right thing and emailed them for permission.
What a palaver! Only in the Uk would there be...
Cut and paste the following into your page...... <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="http://www.activeboard.com/forum_preview_js.spark?forumID=48603&c=8000"> </SCRIPT> -- Edited by ArrGee1991 at 21:17, 2008-08-10
Well, it is a new day, the sun is shining and I have just arrived at work and should not be using this computer really. We have all moaned, dissected, discussed and vented our frustration (me included, poor Pete got the brunt of mine), but I think it is time to look forward again. We will not be reinstated a...
Sorry if my post about Claire King has caused the forum to be disassociated with the official web site.
When I posted, i really didn't think that it would upset people. After all its in the public domain i.e in a book.
Maybe being free of offialldom will be the making of this forum.
...
Now who is that exactly? Geldof? Can't Geldof speak for himself?
Is this the management that booked oversized venues, and failed to flog overpriced tickets at various venues throughout the UK at the end of last year? And whatever happened to that "postponed" gig at Shepherd'...
Hi Ian did not decide to remove all of the links last night. We were told to do it whilst someone had a word with someone else. It's as simple as that. You will now note that the links to the German, Italian, UK and Japanese websites is back on. The forum is not as this was a specific request from Bob's managem...
Let's help each other out here if we can. Arr Gee, I have put a link to your blog on my new website, so could you do me a favour and do the same. Anyone else out there in the same position. I will link you, if you link me. I really think we should all pull together here if we are to survive.
http://bobgeldof-aj...
Hello everybody!Just wondering if Bob would ever read this site??? Does anyone know?It would be fantastic if he would write on here!I wrote a letter, with all the feelings of my heart about him, and was lucky enough to be able to give it to him on the night of the...
HI everyone, It's Jacki again! Well um, because I am going to Bob's concert I wrote a email to the person running the tour asking if i could meet him, and she sent the email to bob's manager and he said i could and he will get me back stage on the night!!! I am really excited but also really scared!!...
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.i just love them! Heres an excellent video http://media.putfile.com/Mystery56
and even reading the scripts is funny http://www.geocities.com/mmemym/
or you can see them almost every night at 9:30 on paramount comedy 2
and another amusi...
I unsuccesfully bid for 1985 Glastonbury BBC Transcription album. If the winner of that item is on this list can they PM me.
Alternatively, does anyone else have a CD of this.
here's an interview with Roger Waters. in one part he speaks about Live8, the reunion of Pink Floyd and he also mention a surrealist phone call with Bob... it's in German but I thought I should share it with you guys.
advantage for Germans:biggr...
Hi everyone,
here's a quick review of the Siegen gig that happened last night. I don't have much time because I'm going on holiday in 4 hours and I haven't packed my bag yet!
It was again a great show, about 3000 people, good atmosphere. Setlist:
The great song of indifference
Love or some...
I did the race for life again on Sunday - and you can guess what I'm writing about :). Please dig deep and sponsor me. You can do this by sending a cheque made payable to Cancer Research UK or online at http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/julesk.
As a charity, Cancer Research UK rely overwhelmin...
The Red Campaign is a great idea. It's good to know that busineses are putting their products up for this. However, I'm not actually interested in any of the products or find them affordable. So for me just giving a donation would be a better option than buying something I don't need, can't afford just b...
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=690072006
In the June edition of a glossy lads' mag David Cameron will project himself as "one of the boys", claiming he once won a karaoke competition in Portland. You've guessed - Oregon's Portland, not Dorset's. If it's not a terribly obvious hamm...
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1787872,00.html?gusrc=rss... The first one I ever proudly clutched, for the Boomtown Rats at the Rainbow in 1977, isn't there. Which is appropriate, because when my friend Paddy and I emerged at Finsbury Park tube station, w...
A friend of mine told me that Bob was on R2 this Saturday, he turned over and didn't bother to phone me and let me know
He said that he was talking about a book he was bringing out, I couldn't imagine another book and enquired whether it was Geldof in Africa. My friend was very vague about the w...
Who needs enemies when you have friends like this? Bob and Billy Connolly have been friends for years. There is even a pic of them together at the Faversham house in his Autobiography. So this article seems a bit like stabbing him in the back. Of course, it may be due to specific editing. You don't...
You may (or may not) like to visit my brand new website. It is, as far as I know, the only biographical one about Bob around. I am probably wrong. I am new to creating websites and this is about the simplest one you can get. I have taken the early info. from his autobiography, so if the details are wrong, don'...
It seems that Bob Geldof and his daughters were right to complain that their human rights were being abused and identify Quick time internet site as a potential source of internat media to get an up to date picture of suffering. They are very keen on NASA and ESE space websites as the only real means of av...
Sir Bob Geldof attended abc chuch in Ammanford ofen during 1990's. He was still a regular in the church congregation when I last attended regularly in 2004. They are really interested in space travel which was identified as the only solution to global suffering. ABC has a website if anyone wants to co...
Sir Bob Geldof and daughters Peaches and Pixie called at my home in August 2005 because they are intersted in Space trave as a vital means of aviding global suffering and suffering thoughout the solar system. They identied the website Quick time as a means of news communication because this website i...
I just received this email, apparently from Bob:
Last year you pushed the G8 leaders to make big commitments, including debt cancellation for 300 million people and an extra $50 billion in aid for the world's poor. These steps are urgently needed to help end the extreme poverty in Africa that kil...
I think they're all in .wma format, so if you want them in mp3, you'll have to convert them.
http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/
Yes, it's apparently created by DeadHeads, and mostly old skool, but there's enough there that everyone can probably find something they're interested in hearin...
Whats everyones fav live song by Bob or Rats, Joeys ,Mondays,Diamonds,Someones ,are great but the best has got to be Rat Trap live in Belfast a couple of years ago.Agree or disagree?
Last night I was in Diksmuide, Belgium, where Bob played his first gig in Europe this year. It was the first night of a two-day peace-festival. When I arrived early in the evening, the place was nearly empty, but later on it filled up nicely. Bob was the main act of the evening and when he started at 10 o'cl...
Bob Geldof:Is That It?
Orwell: 1984
Jaroslav Hasek: Svejk
Imre Kertesz:Fateless
Ferenc Molnar: The Paul street boys
Steven King: Pet Sematary
James Joyce: Ulysses
David Remnick:Lenin's tomb - The last days of the soviet empire
Laszlo Foldes: The Rolling Stones
How to be Ir...
Former singer and now full time campaigner Annie Lennox has been awarded an honourary doctorate by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Well done her.
I just posted some pictures of Bob's concert in Diksmuide in the thread someone started in the other section. I wasn't just there for the show. I wanted to meet the man, and get his signature. But not just on anything.
I have been a U2-fan for over 20 years. And for about a year now, I've bee...
Any body want to jouin this group? :
http://groups.msn.com/BobGeldof
So far there are only two members and I will have to shut it down if no one else comes.
Here it is, the actual KBE, out in public. He really looks fantastic. They both do. This is at Elton's Aids fundraiser last year. I found this during my trawl for new pics for my site, but just had to share it .We probably won't see him this posh for a long time. He is only allowed to use his title offic...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1843171562/qid=1138559821/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/203-8613613-9082306Synopsis 'Everything you know is wrong' - this was the message to the world that Paula Yates posted above her doorb...
I am putting together a collection of my personal favourite Geldof photos from the earliest rats days to the present. A sort of musical and personal journey through time. Some of them are very funny to look at now. A real retro fashion show. This will be edited and added to when required.
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Apparently, BG was interviewed for Belgian TV recently. A friend of mine taped it, and wants to convert it to digital so she can upload it. Can anyone explain how to do this (I'll pass on the info.)
She's going to Friday's show, BTW.
We switched over to Arrow the other day. For a moment I thought a CD had been put on. I couldn't believe it when I heard a Rats song. It wasn't Mondays, not even Rat Trap.
It was Like Clockwork. How long is it since you heard that on the radio? Must be about 20+ years!!! I'll be tuning in again. Any other...
I thought I would share with you a couple of quotes from the book "Blue Shoes and Happiness" by Alexander McCall Smith. The latest in the series about Precious Mamotswe, the only lady detective in Botswana. In one scene she is reading through a western magazine, looking at the pictures.
"She had her...
The Sunday Times (page 5) reports today that there's a plan to make a film of the life of Michael Hutchence. The man behind it is a fellow called Nick Egan who's a British Director who claims to have been a friend of Hutchence.
Egan's quoted as saying "Bob Geldof's character is pivotal - I don't know who...
I saw two good films on DVD this week.
The first was "Crash", an ensemble piece about a large number of LA folk who interact on one fateful day. Very well scripted and quite easy to follow (a challenge for pieces of this nature), with a few literally heart-stopping moments.
The second was "The Tamin...
close the door but don't lock it.
Who's next? 
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theboomtownrats
Then that doctor ha... 
It would be fantastic if he would write on here!
advantage for Germans:biggr...
It was again a great show, about 3000 people, good atmosphere. Setlist:
The great song of indifference
Love or some...
