50th Anniversary dates, London date is exactly 50 years after first gig in Dublin. Sun May 25 2025 - LEYLAND Lancashire - Music in the Park...

Friday 26th April - BOOMTOWN RATS - Tvornica Kulture, Zagreb  Saturday 15th June - BOOMTOWN RATS - Lets Rock Northampton Saturday 29th June ...

  Fri 10 Mar Kulttuuritalo Helsinki   - CANCELLED Sat 20 May Lets Rock The Moor, Cookham, Berkshire Sat 8 Jul Lets Rock Southampton Sat 15 J...

Sat 16 Apr Moray's Easter Fest, Elgin Cooper Park, Elgin, Scotland Sun 29 May Riverside Park, Highworth Road, Lechlade, Glos, England  h...

 Sad news that Garry Roberts has died, aged 72.  RIP The Legend.

Released: 8 Oct 2021  1 And I Do - Geldof 4:01  2 Against The World - Geldof 3:04  3 Man Like Me - Geldof 3:18  4 Three Dogs - Geldof, Briqu...

 

Fri 13 Aug Stone Valley South, Ware Sun 15 Aug Roundhouse Music Festival, Dagenham Sat 25 Sep Let's Rock Norwich Tue 12 Oct The Hawth, C...

Rats UK Discography with UK label/tracks/entry date/highest chart position/positions made/weeks on chart thanks to polyhex.com. Non-UK catal...

New Single - Out Now!

Watch it here... https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000jjr5/citizens-of-boomtown-the-story-of-the-boomtown-rats With guests includin...

The new LP.  Out Now!  And it broke into the top 50 LPs in the UK chart 26.03.2020 CITIZENS OF BOOMTOWN #48 Better still #11 in P...

SUN 1 Mar 2020 Great British Alternative Festival Minehead, Somerset FRI 2 Oct 2020 Cardiff University Great Hall TUE 6 Oct 2020 Londo...

New single from the Rats. 

Friday 19 January 2018 Pier 2, Bremen, Germany Saturday 20 January 2018 Sporthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Monday 22nd January 2018 Batsc...

Sunday 5th March  Sporthalle,  Krochmannstraße 55, 22297 Hamburg, Germany. Monday 6th March  Pier 2, Gröpelinger Fährweg 6, 28237 Bremen,...

Dates for your diaries Friday 26th February 2016 Grosvenor House Hotel, London W1, UK Saturday 26th March 2016 San Sebastian, SPAIN ...

W2 Foundation was set up by Keith Wood as a benevolent fund for Sport, Community, Education and Rugby Player Welfare. The W2 Foundation ...

The Rats are playing a homecoming 40th anniversary gig on Sunday 6th December 2015.  Support from The Trouble Pilgrims aka The Radiators fr...

It was forty years ago...

The Rats will be appearing at The Cork Opera House on the Thursday 22nd October 2015 as part of the Guinness Jazz Festival. Rats, Jazz, O...

Sold Out already, even before they added The Greatest Rock 'n Roll Band In The World!

They played She's So Modern  Like Clockwork  (She's Gonna) Do You In  I Don't Like Mondays  Mary of the 4th Form  L...

Imelda May was joined by The Boomtown Rats, For those in Ireland you can watch on RTÉ For the rest of us, a couple of minutes from the sh...

They Played (I Never Loved) Eva Braun  Like Clockwork  Neon Heart  (She's Gonna) Do You In  Someone's Looking at You  Banan...

They played She's So Modern Like Clockwork (She's Gonna) Do You In I Don't Like Mondays Mary of the 4th Form Looking...

The Rats played an abridged set... Mary of the 4th Form Someone's Looking (At You) Rat Trap I Don't Like Mondays Lookin'...

They Played... (I Never Loved) Eva Braun  Like Clockwork  Neon Heart  (She's Gonna) Do You In  Someone's Looking at You ...

Schlachthof translates as Slaughter House, which equates to Meat Factory, so most appropriate they ended the set with Rat Trap! ...

Yep, the Legend was on stage, but I know nothing else about it.  Please post comments.

If a picture paints a thousand words, then this video must be showing a million!  In lieu of any reviews, just watch the first 201...

Friday 22nd May 2015 - Karlstad Sweden Wednesday 27th May 2015 Munich, Germany (CANCELLED) Thursday 28th May 2015   Swiss Festival W...

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...

Support : The Mysterious Freakshow and Polly Money

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 ...

Support: Republica