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The perception of the Rats in England...
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... as opposed to Ireland and  the rest of the world is quite marked.


Whereas in England they were perceived as the Bay City Rollers of Punk, elsewhere they were seen as anything but.


Example (in an article about Daniel O'Donnell of all things!) ....


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/03/09/bmdan09.xml


Dublin was a home to the late-'70s punk-rock explosion, a culture clash that gave us the Boomtown Rats and U2, the first glimpse of the Celtic tiger in an Ireland throwing off the shackles of its past.


In the US, the Rats were notorious (Thanks to Mondays), and in the rest of the well-balanced world seen as a decent rock band.


Makes you wonder when the Jam & the Clash are held up as the legacy of Punk/New wave, when what they did differed very little from what went before....


 


 



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ArrGee wrote:


... Whereas in England they were perceived as the Bay City Rollers of Punk, ....    


 


Oh no they weren't. That was only the music press - in particular the NME's Tony Parsons & Julie Burchill (both of whom fancied Strummer as much as themselves - eeek!) with their dripslobber approach to anything coming out of Joe Strummer's mouth, three cheers for solidarity amongst public schoolboys, eh?! (unless they're Irish, of course!).


The Rats were treated in certain quarters as being as bad as the Sex Pistols or Stranglers thanks to such shenannigans as seeing the Blackpool Illuminations in their underwear & ripping up "Grease" posters on "Top Of The Pops" as they celebrated knocking "Summer Nights" off the number one spot & keeping "Sandy" & "Hopelessly Devoted To You" from retaking it. Oh, & being Irish at a time when the IRA & INLA were blowing up everything in sight didn't help.



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