Thursday 25th July - BOB GELDOF - Manefestivalen Gamle Fredrikstad, Norway
Thursday 1st August - BOOMTOWN RATS - App Fest, Gloucestershire
Saturday 24th August - BOOMTOWN RATS - Sunshine Festival, FISH MEADOW.UPTON-UPON-SEVERN.WORCESTERSHIRE.WR8 0PF Sunday 25th August - BOB GELDOF - The Pairc Festival, Kings Heath, Birmingham
Rats UK Discography with UK label/tracks/entry date/highest chart position/positions made/weeks on chart thanks to polyhex.com. Non-UK catalogue numbers have been added where known.
1977
ENY4 Looking After No.1/Born To Burn/Barefootin' (live) (NL Mercury 6008 507)
27-Aug-1977
11
47-28-17-13-{11}-14-15-34-25
9 weeks
ENY9 Mary of the 4th Form/Do The Rat (NL Mercury 6008 513) 19-Nov-1977
15
44-23-20-{15}-15-16-16-21-36
9 weeks
1978
ENY13
She's So Modern/Lying Again (NL Mercury 6008 521)
15-Apr-1978
12
23-19-15-15-{12}-14-17-33-39-61-70
11 weeks
ENY14Like Clockwork/How Do You Do ? (NL Mercury 6008 526) FLEXIPOP3 D.U.N. L.A.O.G.H.A.I.R.E.*
17/June/1978
6
54-26-13-8-{6}-6-6-8-15-26-36-52-73
13 weeks
ENY16 Rat Trap/So Strange (NL Mercury 6008 530)
14/Oct/1978
1
22-9-7-3-2-{1}-1-2-5-13-28-28-37-50-73
15 weeks
1979
ENY30 I Don't Like Mondays/It's All The Rage (NL Mercury 6008 550)
21/July/1979
1
15-{1}-1-1-1-2-2-8-16-24-55-74
12 weeks
I Don't Like Mondays
Entry Date - 19/Feb/2005
Highest Chart Position - 22
31-{22}-32R(20)
3 weeks on chart
ENY33Diamond Smiles/Late Last Night (NL Mercury 6008 553)
17/Nov/1979
13
35-23-{13}-15-16-27-27-43-53-72
10 weeks
1980
ENY34/ENY3412 Someone's Looking at You/When The Night Comes (NL Mercury 6008 555)
26/Jan/1980
4
45-14-8-{4}-7-14-22-50-62
9 weeks
BONGO1 Banana Republic/Man at the Top
22/Nov/1980
3
23-9-{3}-5-7-11-11-13-30-52-74
11 weeks
1981
BONGO2 The Elephants Graveyard (Guilty) /Real Different
31/Jan/1981
26
40-{26}-27-32-42-46
6 weeks
MER 87 Never in a Million Years/Don't Talk To Me
12/Dec/1981
62
{62}-62-70-70
4 weeks
1982
MER91 House on Fire/Europe Looked Ugly MERX91House on Fire (dub mix)/Europe Looked Ugly
MER163/MERX163 Drag Me Down/An Icicle In the Sun/Up All Night (extended)** (Special Edition 12") Drag Me Down/Rat Trap/She's So Modern
05/May/1984
50
90-81-56-{50}-66
5 weeks
MER179/MERT179/MERX179 Dave/Hard Times/Banana Republic (Live)**/Close As You'll Ever Be (Live)**
24/Nov/1984
81
{81}-84-96
3 weeks
1985
MER184/MERX184 A Hold of Me/Never In A Million Years/Say Hi To Mick**
09/Feb/1985
78
84-{78}
2 weeks
1994
VERCD87 I Don't Like Mondays/Looking After No.1/Mary of the 4th Form/She's So Modern VERDD87 I Don't Like Mondays/Rat Trap/Someone's Looking At You/Banana Republic VER87 I Don’t Like Mondays/Born To Burn/Do The Rat
02/July/1994
38
{38}-53
2 weeks
* - D.U.N. L.A.O.G.H.A.I.R.E. was the B-side to Like Clockwork in Ireland, but released as a cover mount Flexi Disc in the UK
** - 12" Only
In the US, I Don't Like Mondays was their ONLY hit! If you can call number 73 a hit. It entered on 2nd February 1980 and peaked at 73 after entering at 91.
I Don't Like Mondays
2/Feb/1980
73
91-80-75-{73}-92
5 weeks
Tracks in bold were not on any of the recent re-released albums in 2005.
Tracks in italics have mixes/lyrics that differ from the re-released album.
2020
Trash Glam Baby/There’s No Tomorrow Like Today - 7"/download/stream
Watch it here...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000jjr5/citizens-of-boomtown-the-story-of-the-boomtown-rats
With guests including Bono, Sinead O'Connor, Dave Stewart, Jools Holland, David Mallet and Sting, as well as music writers, photographers and historians, this film explores the musical and social legacy of Ireland's first rock superstars The Boomtown Rats, who changed their own lives, helped to change Ireland and, with Bob Geldof's Live Aid, changed the world.
In this entertaining, dramatic and absorbing film, director Billy McGrath digs deep into the bands history and remarkable songbook and highlights the key moments of its huge success and subsequent fall in 1985. And after over 30 years, why did the band regroup in 2013?
SUN 1 Mar 2020 Great British Alternative Festival Minehead, Somerset
FRI 2 Oct 2020 Cardiff University Great Hall
TUE 6 Oct 2020 London Palladium
WED 7 Oct 2020 Brighton Dome
MON 19 Oct 2020 Manchester O2 Ritz
WED 21 Oct 2020 Liverpool Grand Central Hall
MON 26 Oct 2020 York Barbican
WED 28 Oct 2020 Birmingham Town Hall
TUE 3 Nov 2020 Sage, Gateshead
WED 04 Nov 2020 Glasgow Old Fruitmarket
MON 09 Nov 2020 Cheltenham Town Hall
WED 18 Nov 2020 Cambridge Corn Exchange
Friday 19 January 2018 Pier 2, Bremen, Germany Saturday 20 January 2018 Sporthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Monday 22nd January 2018 Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany Saturday 2nd June 2018 Holywood Harmony Festival, Co Down, Saturday 16th June 2018 Lets Rock, Temple Newsham, Leeds Sunday 8th July 2018 Marlay Park, Dublin (Support for Queen) Thursday 12th July 2018 Roots Festival Norway http://www.rootsfestivalen.no/ Sunday 22nd July 2018 Rewind Scone Palace, Perth Scotland Saturday 28th July 2018 Lets Rock, Clapham Common, London Sunday 5th August 2018 Rewind Capesthorne Hall, Chester Saturday 11th August 2018 Kubix Festival New Herrington Country Park,Sunderland Sunday 16th September 2018 Ramsbottom Festival Sunday 22nd September 2018 MTV presents Gibraltar Calling music festival Sunday 7th October 2018 Great British Alternative Festival Skegness Saturday 27th October 2018 Sligo Institute of Technology Sunday 28th October 2018 Wexford Spiegeltent Thursday 6th December 2018 Aria Complex, Triq Hal-Gharghur, Iklin, Malta
Sunday 5th March Sporthalle, Krochmannstraße 55, 22297 Hamburg, Germany. Monday 6th March Pier 2, Gröpelinger Fährweg 6, 28237 Bremen, Germany Friday 24th March The Mandela Hall, 79 University Rd, Belfast Saturday 25th March The Olympia Theatre,72 Dame St, Dublin, Ireland Friday 7th April The Olympia Theatre,72 Dame St, Dublin, Ireland (Rock Against Homelessness) Fri 21 April Famagusta, Cyprus Saturday 1st July Prekyfest, Totally Wicked Stadium, McManus Drive, St Helens WA9 3AL (Support includes ABC, Midge Ure, Paul Young, Dodgy and Toploader) Saturday 8th July One Live Festival, Stoke Park, Parkway, Guildford, GU1 1ER, UK (Support includes The Darkness, Reverend & The Makers, Toploader) Thursday 3rd August Wacken Open Air 2017, Germany Saturday 5th August Amphitheater, Hanau, Germany Saturday 12th August Nostalgie Beach Festival, Ostend, Belgium (with UB40 and Banarama) www.nostalgiebeachfestival.be/nl/ Saturday 9th September Worcestershire County Cricket Grounds http://wccc.co.uk/concerts
Friday 26th February 2016 Grosvenor House Hotel, London W1, UK Saturday 26th March 2016 San Sebastian, SPAIN Cancelled due to weather Friday 29th April 2016 The Stage, Basingstoke, Hampshire UK Saturday 4th June 2016 Queen of the South FC , Palmerston Park, UK Cancelled due to low ticket sales http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-36274818 Saturday 18th June 2016 Hurtwood Park Polo Country Club,Ewhurst Green, Surrey GU6 7SW UK Saturday 25th June 2016 Donauinselfest, Vienna, AUSTRIA Friday 1st July 2016 Godiva Festival, Coventry, West Midands UK Saturday 9th July 2016 Midnattsrocken 2016, Lakselv NORWAY Saturday 16th July 2016 Wellow Fest, Chapel Farm. Wellow, Newark Nottingham NG22 0EJ, UK Sunday 17th July 2016 Brentwood Festival, Essex, CM15 9NN, UK Friday 29th July 2016 Silverstone, Northamptonshire UK Thursday 11th August 2016 Leopardstown Racecourse, EIRE Sunday 21st August 2016 Weyfest, Farnham, Surrey UK Saturday 27th August 2016 Victorious Festival, Portsmouth, UK Saturday 12th November 2016 Riesa, GERMANY
W2 Foundation was set up by Keith Wood as a benevolent fund for Sport, Community, Education and
Rugby Player Welfare. The W2 Foundation sits within The Ireland Funds and has raised over €1.5m to
date. With no operational costs, all proceeds raised from the event go directly to the Foundation.
The Rats are playing a homecoming 40th anniversary gig on Sunday 6th December 2015. Support from The Trouble Pilgrims aka The Radiators from Space playing their 1977 album TV Tube Heart in its entirety (all 33 minutes of it).
Last tickets remaining in the upper circle for 39 euro via Ticketmaster Ireland and doubtless other ticket agencies.
Friday 22nd May 2015 - Karlstad Sweden Wednesday 27th May 2015 Munich, Germany (CANCELLED) Thursday 28th May 2015 Swiss Festival Winterthur, Switzerland Friday 29th May 2015 - Wiesbaden, Germany Saturday 30th May 2015 - Cologne, Germany (CANCELLED) Friday 5th June 2015 Kivenlahti Rock Festival, Helsinki, Finland Sunday 7th June 2015 Let's Rock Bristol, Ashton Court, Bristol, UK Thursday 18th June 2015 Live Earth, Paris, France (CANCELLED) Sunday 21st June 2015 Lublin Festival, Poland Sunday 19th July 2015 Latitude, Suffolk, UK Friday 31st July 2015 Carfest North, Oulton Park, Cheshire , UK Monday 3rd August 2015 Friedberg, Germany Saturday 8th August 2015 Rebellion Festival, Blackpool, UK Sunday 9th August 2015 Rewind North, Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire, UK Friday 14th August 2015 Kartfestivalen, Norway Friday 28th August 2015 Carfest South, Laverstoke Park Farm Hampshire, UK Saturday 29th August 2015 Watchet, Somerset, UK Sunday 6th September 2015, Electric Picnic, Laois, Ireland Sunday 13th September 2015, Reload, Norwich, UK
Tonight, of all nights, The Boomtown Rats were the featured artists on BBC Radio 4s Mastertapes, the series which looks back at a key album from an artist's career.
This recording of the programme took place at the BBCs Maida Vale studios where the band recorded their Peel sessions back in the late 1970s.
I arrived at about 4.30pm with no one waiting outside the studio. So I headed to the local and was quite well oiled when three of us headed to the venue at about 6.15pm, a whole quarter of an hour before the doors were due to open only to be told it was full and no one else was getting in!
We were late because we were sent emails saying "You and those on your ticket will be given priority entrance to the event." so saw no need to get there that early.
I was a bit hacked off at that point thinking I had made a massive mistake considering I could have queued for a couple of hours, but then someone confirmed we had questions and were to be admitted, so we were taken down into the bowels of the studio where we waited outside the studio door to be let in. No queuing for us!
We politely let the others with questions in ahead of us. They all filed into the second row from the front, and as we were sitting down in the third row, we were told to get up and go and sit in the front row!
Turned out these were pretty much the best seats in the house, as the way the stage was set up John Wilson who was doing the interviewing had his back to us, but Geldof whilst side on to much of the audience directly faced us.
The Rats kicked off with the riff from Rat Trap which we were told to applaud enthusiastically, absolutely no issue for me. They opened with She's So Modern. I noticed various audience members recording and taking photographs which I didn't believe was permitted, Anyway as everyone was seated, and there was no one in front of me, I got my iPad out (which I had only taken along to stave off boredom in the queue) and recorded Rat Trap, Like Clockwork, Howard Hughes and Eva Braun.
The interview was captivating. Geldof dominated proceedings, but the other three did chip in from time to time. There was a lot about Mutt Lange and his input with Pete admitting that Mutt came up with the bass line in Rat Trap and Bob playing the song acoustically to explain what Mutt brought to the song. I also recorded that bit. Bob talked about writing Eva Braun and Howard Hughes in the same day. If only he could have more days like that.
I even got my moment in the sun when I asked my question. I even had to stand up so people could see me in my full Dennis the Menace regalia. I was a little apprehensive as I was asking if Geldof was the best singer in the Rats. He said no, and then gave a really interesting answer about how Simon and Mutt Lange provided the harmonies, Garry interjected to say Geldof's presence and performance made him a great front man which I wholeheartedly agree with.
I suspect there will be a fair amount of cutting, Some of Bob's more colourful answers definitely won't be broadcast, because John Wilson repeated a couple of questions saying that his first answer wouldn't be going out on Radio 4 at three in the afternoon!
The show ended at 9pm, which left two hours of further drinking time with friends, where we looked back at my footage and talked music until closing time.
It was an absolutely superb evening on a par with getting to play at Highbury and meeting Charlie George before they dug up the pitch. Truly a once in a lifetime money can't buy experience, well except for those good people who bid £550 to win the eBay/Children in Need auction. The best night out this decade!
The show will be broadcast on Radio 4 in two parts on the 1st and 2nd December 2014.
As Kentish Town is a quick jaunt around the overground, this was a nice easy trip. Met up with some old (and young as it happened) fellow Rat fans at the local, prior to heading in and getting a prime viewing spot two or three from the front, just in time to see Republica who were great support and played this superb set
From Rush Hour With Love
Out Of The Darkness
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Try Everything
German Accent
Hallelujah
Christiana Obey
Ready To Go
Not wishing to leave my vantage point, I didn't worry about heading to the bar as the crowd grew ever denser around me. At about 9pm, The Rats came onstage and played
(I Never Loved) Eva Braun
Like Clockwork
Neon Heart
(She's Gonna) Do You In
Someone's Looking at You
Banana Republic
She's So Modern
I Don't Like Mondays
Close As You'll Ever Be
Mary of the 4th Form / I Wanna Be Your Man /Boom Boom
Looking After No. 1
Rat Trap
Encore
Me and Howard Hughes
Diamond Smiles
The Boomtown Rats
Aaron Liddard joined the band playing sax on Rat Trap and The Boomtown Rats.
There was a very lively crowd, self included, at the front. Place was absolutely buzzing at the end of Rat Trap with the whole of the circle stood applauding.
Headed to the bar for Diamond Smiles, and saw the the rest of the Forum was very crowded.
My second annual pilgrimage to Cambridge to see the Rats in a smaller venue than those I would normally see them in London. A slow train journey allowed me to consume the best part of a nice bottle of rjoca, however it did mean I missed Republica and ended up a little away from the stage, however, The Junction is pretty compact, so even if you had your back to the wall, you'd still be as close as you could ever get to the stage at The O2 or a festival.
The Rats had a new swanky video to replace the projections of the last tour, even if the visuals are more or less identical, except a montage of them playing at festivals when introduced by Geldof during the encore of Diamond Smiles. Also a new twist on the snakeskin suit story which was welcomed by those who had undoubtedly seen the Rats last year at the nearby Corn Exchange.
The set was the standard that had preceded it on the tour to date, which meant no Joey (boo) but a welcome return for Howard Hughes (hurray). It was the show that met expectations, in front of a quite subdued audience bar the odd pocket of excitement. Nevertheless, good to see the Rats at a venue where you can see the reds of their eyes and get involved.
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