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To announce yourself as The Greatest Rock N Roll Band In The World, especially on todays bill, requires balls that must dwarf even those immense globes of Taylor and May that I mentioned earlier. Bob Geldof must have to walk around with wheelbarrow just to get from A to B. The Boomtown Rats kick off with Shes So Modern and they do sound good. Geldof does his strutting around the place and pointing dance, not forgetting to wiggle his arse the odd time. Like Clockwork slows things back down too soon. The Dr Feelgood-ish (Shes Gonna) Do You In starts off well enough, but it goes on far too long, Lord Gob Almighty reminding us throughout, in case we didnt realise if for ourselves, how Mega the Rats are. Geldofs lack of acuity on the harmonica might lead one to believe that he had just been gifted it as the show started, with the simple instruction you blow in that end, and indeed, he does blow.
Mind you, hes looking well. He points out his flashy bell-bottoms, comparing them, unfavourably, to the cargo pants that a lot of the audience are sporting before the band go into Someones Looking At You. The piano intro to I Dont Like Mondays is greeted with a huge roar, and the pause after how to die is still brilliantly effective. Mary Of The 4th Form dissolves into a long jam quoting The Beatles/Stones I Wanna Be Your Man, Golden ****ing Earring Ms Kane, a fan of the Ring, freaks out - and a story about having a jar with John Lee Hooker. Rat Trap' is great, sax and all. The last one was a bit weird though, a song which basically repeated the line The Boomtown Rats to an approximation of a dance beat and then Geldof feigns a bit of a druggy meltdown in the middle. Odd. The Greatest Rock and Roll band in the world? Hardly. Entertaining? Very. Geldof is still very much a star and fair play to him.
