Without any reason I listened to The Boomtown Rats, a band formed 50 years ago in Dublin, a lot. They appeared when punk started but for me they were more new wave because they included elements of reggae, pop, rock and catchy melodies into their sound. Opinions are divided about this band, but I've always liked their music and I don't really care about Bob Geldorf's attitude. What matters is that they released a large number of songs that stayed with me in the early eighties.
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I saw Bob and the reformed Rats at a festival in 2015 and must admit, it was genuinely exciting. At the time, I wrote ...fair play, again, to Bob for suitably Geldofian crowd interaction: having drawn attention to his "pretend snakeskin suit", he proceeded to lambast the audience for their "crap t-shirts and weekend shorts", concluding that we were "dressed liked c*nts". And I can't deny, he had a point.
They were an excellent singles band and, having seen them play the Glasgow Apollo in 1980, I can vouch for them being decent enough live. I think Geldof's involvement with Live Aid a few years later led to a bit of a backlash against them from which they never recovered.
The first album was stonking. Saw them live around that time and they were, er, stonking. Met them backstage afterwards and got their autographs. Stonking.
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