The Boomtown Rats frontman, 73, shared the quip during a Q&A at Wembley Stadium, held to mark the upcoming West End launch of Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical. The event celebrated both the ...

Bob Geldof & The Boomtown Rats among big names announced for Kerry festival The Boomtown Rats have been announced to play this year's 'Revival' music festival in Listowel in July.

That is, except for one individual whose role within several cult acts in the West of the country has quietly steered the direction that these artful and hyper-literate younger acts have taken. Mick ...

Fringe by the Sea will bring French duo Air to North Berwick this August to recreate their classic 1998 album Moon Safari live. Other artists announced in this first wave of acts include The Boomtown ...

Bob Geldof's band, The Boomtown Rats, will be among the line-up for this year's festival. | Fringe By The Sea Air is to perform the only Scottish date of its tour of Moon Safari live at the festival.

Air will perform on August 2, their only Scottish date as part of their Moon Safari tour. Their debut album, Moon Safari, released in 1998, and brought them critical acclaim, with the hit single Sexy ...

Other Irish acts on the list include Dolores O’Riordan, The Boomtown Rats, Declan O’Rourke, Rory Gallagher, Thin Lizzy, and Van Morrison. Record Store Day 2025 returns on Saturday, April 12 – and in ...

The Boomtown Rats is a rock group led by Bob Geldof (full name: Robert Fredrick Zenon Geldof, born October 5th 1951). Playing punk and New Wave influenced music, their initial incarnation lasted ...

Since reforming in 2013, they have released the album Citizens of Boomtown but are best known for hits such as “I Don’t Like Mondays” and “Rat Trap”.

The Boomtown Rats The Boomtown Rats will be performing at the Hootenanny. (Photo: Lorne Thomson/Redferns/Getty) The Irish rock band, led by Bob Geldof, will be adding a Celtic flavour to celebrations.

Penned by Bob Geldof and Johnnie Fingers, The Boomtown Rats released “I Don’t Like Mondays” as the lead single from their 1979 album The Fine Art of Surfacing. The song went to No. 1 on the ...