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HI- I'm sure some of the praise for the Rats success must go to Facthna O' Kelly. He was a quietly spoken, thoughtful music journalist who worked for the Evening Press newspaper in Dublin in the seventies and left his job to manage the Rats he was so impressed on seeing them play live.
I've heard him being interviewed on Irish radio about his time with the band and he comes across as being a very caring intelligent guy who took a chance to go into music management and took a punt on the Rats when then set out to storm the world. I think he looked back on his years '77 to '82 when the Boomtown Rats had most of their success as being amazing and his telling of the story of when Rat Trap got to number one, on hearing that news was quiet touching.
I don't know him nor have never met him but he was an important cog in the machiene that, I'm sure, made loads of important decisions, and had to manage difficult people and situations.
noelindublin wrote:HI- I'm sure some of the praise for the Rats success must go to Facthna O' Kelly. He was a quietly spoken, thoughtful music journalist who worked for the Evening Press newspaper in Dublin in the seventies and left his job to manage the Rats he was so impressed on seeing them play live.
I've heard him being interviewed on Irish radio about his time with the band and he comes across as being a very caring intelligent guy who took a chance to go into music management and took a punt on the Rats when then set out to storm the world. I think he looked back on his years '77 to '82 when the Boomtown Rats had most of their success as being amazing and his telling of the story of when Rat Trap got to number one, on hearing that news was quiet touching.
I don't know him nor have never met him but he was an important cog in the machiene that, I'm sure, made loads of important decisions, and had to manage difficult people and situations.
No. Their success is all down to me . They thanked me on every LP. (...anyone who ever came to a gig...)
I don't know what a manager does for a band apart from book the studio/theatre, get the girls/drugs and collect the dosh.
-- Edited by ArrGee on Tuesday 28th of September 2010 09:48:00 PM
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