THE BOOMTOWN RATS ‘CITIZENS OF BOOMTOWN’ UK  TOUR!

THE BOOMTOWN RATS ‘CITIZENS OF BOOMTOWN’ UK  TOUR!

26 MARCH BRIGHTON THE DOME

The Boomtown Ratswill mark 2020 (The Year Of The Rat) with a UK tour to support their first new studio album since 1984 and singer Bob Geldof’s new book entitled, Tales Of Boomtown Glory.

Formed in Dublin in 1975, The Boomtown Ratsbecame part of the burgeoning punk scene and went on to make history. Racking up 6 er-defining albums, The Boomtown Rats were the first Irish band to have a UK #1with their hit, Rat Trapas well as their single, I Don’t Like Mondays,which went to the top of the charts in 32 countries.


Singer Bob Geldof’s defiant motormouth arrogance and flagrant disrespect for authority endeared him and his band to every youth who felt weighed down by the heavy handed blandishments of church and state. In the UK The Boomtown Ratsfirst toured with the Ramonesand Talking Heads, rocking and mocking the status quo alongside the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Jam and The Stranglers. They became one of the biggest bands of the late 70s/80s with a string of top ten hits and platinum albums, earning them Brit Awards and Ivor Novellos.

In 1984, inspired by a TV report on the famine in Ethiopia, Bob Geldof organized the star-studded Band Aid and co-wrote “Do They Know It’s Christmas,” one of the biggest-selling singles in history. The next year he organised Live Aid.

When The Boomtown Ratstook a break after 6 albums and countless singles it seemed the right time. They went off to their different lives. Bob Geldof made 7 solo albums. Then something pulled them back into each other’s orbit. It felt unforced, entirely natural and the rage and frustrations that drove the earlier incarnation of the band was no less tempered by time or life.

“Indeed if anything”, says Geldof  “it was time to hear THAT noise again. But I only knew that when I heard this group of individuals re-constitute their specific racket.”

The Boomtown Ratsare: Bob Geldof on vocals, Pete Briquette on bass, Simon Crowe on drums and Garry Roberts on guitar – will tour the UK in 2020.