Geldof on 40th anniversity Miriam Show RTE Radio 1

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Geldof on 40th anniversity Miriam Show RTE Radio 1

noelindublin · Loudmouth

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/sunday-with-miriam/programmes/2015/1129/749919-sunday-with-miriam-sunday-29-november-2015/?clipid=2043707#2043408

This is a really good interview. Lots of stuff about the Rats and their early days, the gig at Poulaphouca Co Wicklow, bad days at Blackrock. Quite touching passage about the death of his mother, relationship with his father and sisters and gritty pieces about the grimmer side of life in Dun laoghaire and Dublin back in the sixtes and seventies.

Geldof gets to choose the music and plays Mary of the 4th Form, The House at the Top of the World, and Close As You'll Ever Be. Well worth a listen from a remarkable storyteller.

-- Edited by noelindublin on Tuesday 1st of December 2015 02:07:27 PM

Ian D · House on Fire

Bob says he's an atheist but ends the interview saying God bless!

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

Ian D wrote:
Bob says he's an atheist but ends the interview saying God bless!

ingrained in him no doubt. You can take the boy out of Catholicism, but can't take Catholicism out of the boy.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Jules wrote:
Ian D wrote:
Bob says he's an atheist but ends the interview saying God bless!
ingrained in him no doubt. You can take the boy out of Catholicism, but can't take Catholicism out of the boy.

Did you hear him when he said he used to steal from Woolworths in Dun Laoghaire? Must listen to that part again. He and his mate used to steal some play dough type thing with a funny name, from Woolies.

Loved this interview so I hope you all got to listen. Great detail about the Poulaphouca gig in late 1975, which Geldof says was more important than the first one at Bolton St College of Technology. First sell out gig and the first hint of greatness and stardom for the band.

Great detail too about how he was in love with Mary Preece and couldn't 'get her' so to speak.The House at the Top of the Road was about another of his early loves, a girl called Daphne and he tells us about this early relationship.

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

Yes, I heard him say that that they stole from Woollies.

The podcast is available in the UK, so should hopefully be elsewhere.

IrelandCalling · Never In A Million Years

Very cool, I must check that out. I worked with Mary Preece in the Government Buildings; she was very nice. I was there a year or so before I knew she was the Mary 'of the Fourth Form'!