However, while “Rat Trap”s parent album A Tonic for the Troops also went platinum in the U.K., its immediate follow-up The Fine Art Of Surfacing raised the band’s Stateside profile after a ...

The Boomtown Rats have announced a 50th anniversary tour of the UK for October and November 2025. The Irish new wave band, led by Bob Geldof, will play 12 theatre shows around the country, kicking ...

The Boomtown Rats arrive in Dublin where the gig they were to play has been cancelled. Having sold out 7,500 tickets for the Dublin concert, the court ban came as a bitter blow for the band.

BOOMTOWN Rats and Belinda Carlisle will be headline acts at a popular music festival in 2024. The Sunshine Music Festival, in Upton-upon-Severn, has just wrapped up another year, but organisers ...

Before ‘Rat Trap’, the Boomtown Rats’ first four singles had reached the top 20 in the UK. After ‘Rat Trap’ they would reach No. 1 a second time, with 1979’s ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’.

Garry Roberts, lead guitarist and founding member of The Boomtown Rats, has died. The band’s singer Bob Geldof, bassist Pete Briquette, and drummer Simon Crowe announced the guitarist’s death ...

The official Twitter account for The Boomtown Rats also remembered the legendary guitarist. “R.I.P. Garry Roberts, the legend, founding member and guitarist of The Boomtown Rats.

R.I.P. GARRY ROBERTS, THE LEGEND, FOUNDING MEMBER AND GUITARIST OF THE BOOMTOWN RATS. A MAN WHO WILL BE MISSED, A FRIEND WHO WILL BE REMEMBERED, A SOUND THAT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN pic.twitter ...

BOOMTOWN Rat Garry Roberts passed away this week after fulfilling a dream to reform the Irish group that once stormed the charts. The 72-year-old admitted he found it hardest to cope when the group… ...

Boomtown Rats star Garry Roberts has died at the age of 72. The guitarist passed away on Wednesday morning (09.11.22), with the band describing him as an "old friend and great guitarist". In a ...