Following their reunion in 2013, the Rats—Geldof, guitarist Garry Roberts, bassist Pete Briquette and drummer Simon Crowe—released Citizens of Boomtown last month, their first new studio album ...

In early 2020, The Boomtown Rats' year was shaping up to be a blockbuster. The Irish band — led by frontman and activist Bob Geldof, who later became known as the co-organizer of Live Aid and co ...

Long ago superseded by Bob Geldof's marginally more mature and statesmanlike incarnations, Boomtown Bob is back, at least for the next month. Almost 30 years after the Boomtown Rats split, earlier ...

Elsewhere in the interview, he looks back at the first Boomtown Rats show in October 1975. “A girl out of 30 people in the crowd walked over [at the end] and said she wanted to shag me,” he says.

Bob Geldof is to be reunited with the Boomtown Rats for the first time in more than 25 years at a festival this summer. The band, famous for the hit singles "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays ...

The Boomtown Rats and Bob Geldof, the man who brought the world together for Live Aid, are back. With the coronavirus, the timing could be fortuitous.

Bob Geldof and the re-formed Boomtown Rats will talk about their legendary punk band in a new feature doc, “Boomtown.” It is one of the first two films from a new music producer-distributor ...

‘I grabbed hold of it, and the rhetoric of change was rock and roll, the platform for change was rock and roll, the desirability, the inevitability of change was rock and roll.’ BV: You’ve ...

Bob Geldof calls out Trump, J.D. Vance, and Elon Musk while reflecting on the loss of unity and the changing role of pop ...

Bob Geldof: Lord of the Rats Forget lifetime-achievement gongs and knighthoods - Bob Geldof's proudest of those Boomtown CDs, he tells James McNair Friday 28 January 2005 01:00 GMT ...

Bob Geldof has made his first appearance on stage since the death of his daughter Peaches. The Band Aid legend performed with The Boomtown Rats at the Volksfest Festival in Plymouth, Devon on ...

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