Classic Rock - March 2026

 

2026 Dates

• Saturday 31 January 2026 - The Hub at Cillin Hill, Kilkenny  https://www.ticketmaster.ie/the-boomtown-rats-kilkenny-31-01-2026/event/1800633DEB93C8C5 
• Friday, 6 February -  3Arena, Dublin with Van Morrison, Imelda May and others...  www.hotpress.com/music/hot-press-announces-history-in-the-making-the-concert-at-3arena-to-kickstart-50th-anniversary-activities-23122906

50 years LP

Available on Vinyl/CD/Streaming Services with variations.

Tracklisting 

1. Looking After No. 1
2. K.I.S.S. (not on YouTube/Apple)
3. Me And Howard Hughes
4. Here's A Postcard  (not on YouTube/Apple)
5. Dave
6. Drag Me Down
7. Rat Trap
8. Someone's Looking At You
9. Banana Republic
10. Keep It Up (CD/Digital only)
11. Diamond Smiles
12. When The Night Comes
13. Mary Of The Fourth Form
14. Theres No Tomorrow Like Today
15. The Elephant's Graveyard
16. She' So Modern
17. (I Never Loved) Eva Braun
18. Trash Glam Baby  (not on YouTube/Apple)
19. House On Fire (CD/Digital only)
20. The Boomtown Rats!
21. Tonight (CD/Digital only)
22. Like Clockwork
23. Neon Heart
24. Up All Night
25. Monster Monkeys  (not on YouTube/Apple)
26. I Don't Like Mondays
27. Joey's On The Street Again

Dawn of the Rats

1. Doin' It Right 1975 live demo
2. My Blues Away 1975 live demo
3. A Second Time 1975 live demo
4. Fanzine Hero 1975 live demo
5. Barefootin Live at Moran's Hotel, Dublin 1975
6. Born To Burn
7. Do The Rat
8. Lying Again
9. How Do You Do
10. So Strange
11. It's All The Rage

2025 Dates

 50th Anniversary dates, London date is exactly 50 years after first gig in Dublin.

• Thu May 15 2025 - PRAGUE Czech Republic O2 Universim CANCELLED
• Sun May 25 2025 - LEYLAND Lancashire - Music in the Park
• Fri May 30 2025 - AACHEN, GERMANY - Tivoli CANCELLED
• Sun June 1 2025 - DUBLIN St. Annes Park - Rewind
• Sat June 21 2025 - CORK Virgin Media Park - Rewind - with Squeeze CANCELLED
• Thu July 10 2025 -  SERBIA Exit Festival,Novi
• Fri July 11 2025 - SWITZERLAND Waterfront Festival Zürich - CANCELLED (who knows why?)
• Sun July 13 2025 - LONDON, KOKO
• Thu July 16 2025 - ITALY Pordenone Blues Festival - FREE
• Sat July 19 2025 - KERRY Revival Festival
• Sat July 26 2025 - DUBLIN Swords Castle Town Park - with Undertones
• Fri August 1 2025 - WACKEN, GERMANY - Wacken Open Air
• Sun August 3 2025 - WATERFORD - All Together Now Festival
• Wed August 6 2025 - NORTH BERWICK, SCOTLAND - Fringe By The Sea
• FrI August 22 2025 - OVERTON, HAMPSHIRE - Carfest
• Sat September 13 2025 - PENHALLOW, CORNWALL - Cider Festival
• Fri October 10 2025 - NOTTINGHAM - Royal Concert Hall
• Sat October 11 2025 - BIRMINGHAM - Symphony Hall
• Fri October 17 2025 - ABERDEEN - Music Hall
• Sat October 18 2025 - GLASGOW - Barrowlands
• Fri October 24 2025 - SHEFFIELD - City Hall
• Sat October 25 2025 - CAMBRIDGE - Corn Exchange
• Fri October 31 2025 - LONDON - Eventim Apollo
• Sat November 1 2025 - SOUTHAMPTON O2 Guildhall
• Fri November 7 2025 - MANCHESTER - Bridgewater Hall
• Sat November 8 2025 - GATESHEAD - Glasshouse
• Fri November 14 2025 - YORK - Barbican
• Sat November 15 2025 - LIVERPOOL - Olympia
• Tue November 18 2025 - Mönchengladbach, Germany - Redbox

2024 Dates

Friday 26th April - BOOMTOWN RATS - Tvornica Kulture, Zagreb 

Saturday 15th June - BOOMTOWN RATS - Lets Rock Northampton

Saturday 29th June - BOOMTOWN RATS - Lets Rock Exeter

Saturday 20th July - BOOMTOWN RATS - Let's Rock Wales

Sunday 21st July - BOOMTOWN RATS - Rewind Scotland Scone Palace, Perth

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 

Also check https://www.theboomtownratsofficial.com/tour

2023 Dates

 Fri 10 Mar Kulttuuritalo Helsinki - CANCELLED

Sat 20 May Lets Rock The Moor, Cookham, Berkshire

Sat 8 Jul Lets Rock Southampton

Sat 15 Jul Lets Rock Shrewsbury

Sun 29 Jul Cavan, Ireland - SOLD OUT

Sat 5 Aug Lets Rock Northern Ireland, Bangor, County Down - CANCELLED

Sun 6 Aug Rewind North,  Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire  

Fri 18 Aug Weyfest, Farnham, Surrey

Sat 19 Aug Lochore Meadows Country Park, Fife.

2022 Dates

Sat 16 Apr	Moray's Easter Fest, Elgin Cooper Park, Elgin, Scotland
Sun 29 May	Riverside Park, Highworth Road, Lechlade, Glos, England https://lechladefestival.co.uk/
Sun 5 Jun	BigStage@1886, Villiers Square, Douglas, Isle of Man https://1886bars.com/product/mad-sunday/
Fri 17 Jun	SWR Summer Festival 2022, Speyer, Germany
Sat 2 Jul	Sign of the Times Festival - LITTLE HADHAM HERTS SG11 2DY, England
Sun 17 Jul	Forever Young Kildare, Ireland
Fri 5 Aug	Mallorca Country Club, Spain https://www.legendsvip.com/event/the-boomtown-rats/
Sun 7 Aug	Stone Valley North  Durham DH7 7DW, England
Sun 28 Aug	Stone Valley Midlands  Newark, Notts NG22 9EQ, England
Tue 30 Aug	Mallorca Country Club, Spain (Postponed to 2023)
Sat 1 Oct	Great British Alternative Festival, Skegness, England https://www.bigweekends.com/great-british-alternative-music-festival-skegness-300922

 

Garry Roberts RIP

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

Out The Back Of Boomtown

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, Briquette, Crowe 3:27 

5 The Zone - Geldof, Briquette 3:55 

Top of the Pops LPs

 

2021 Dates

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, Crawley

Thu 14 Oct London Palladium (support Gabi Garbutt & The Illuminations)

The Boomtown Rats - UK Singles Discography

• 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

ENY14 Like 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

ENY33 Diamond 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
MERX91 House on Fire (dub mix)/Europe Looked Ugly

20/Mar/1982

24

66-44-30-{24}-26-29-42-71

8 weeks

MER106 Charmed Lives/No Hiding Place
MER1062 Nothing Happened Today (Live)/A Storm Breaks (Instrumental)
MERX106 Charmed Lives/A Storm Breaks (Instrumental)

FAILED TO CHART

1984

MER154/MERX154 Tonight/Precious Times/Walking Downtown**

• 18/Feb/1984
• 73
• {73}-76-83
• 3 weeks

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

• 14/Feb/2020
• FAILED TO CHART

Here’s A Postcard (Hot Mix) - Stream only

• 21/Aug/2020
• FAILED TO CHART

There's No Tomorrow Like Today

New Single - Out Now!

Citizens of Boomtown: The Story of the Boomtown Rats

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?

Citizens of Boomtown

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 Physical Chart...

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/physical-albums-chart/20200320/2/

1 Trash Glam Baby 03:54

2 Sweet Thing 03:11

3 Monster Monkeys 04:25

4 She Said No 03:56

5 Passing Through 04:36

6 Here's a Postcard 03:52

7 K.I.S.S. 03:11

8 Rock 'n' Roll Yé Yé 04:55

9 Get a Grip 04:00

10 The Boomtown Rats 05:20

Deluxe Edition Additional Tracks

11 K.I.S.S. (Remix) 06:01

12 Trash Glam Baby (Live at the Palladium) 05:08

13 Someone's Looking at You (Live at the Palladium) 06:10

14 Monster Monkeys (Live at the Palladium) 05:05

15 Like Clockwork (Live at the Palladium) 03:59

16 And I Do 04:02

17 Against the World 03:04

18 Man Like Me 03:19

19 Three Dogs 03:28

20 The Zone 03:55

21 There's No Tomorrow Like Today 03:34

2020 Year of The Rat Dates

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

Trash Glam Baby

New single from the Rats. 

2018 Dates

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

2017 Dates

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