The Boomtown Rats are an Irish new wave band that had a series of Irish and UK hits between 1977 and 1985. The group is led by vocalist Bob Geldof. The other members of the original line-up were Garry Roberts (lead guitar), Johnnie Fingers (keyboard), Pete Briquette (bass), Gerry Cott (guitar) and Simon Crowe (drums). The Boomtown Rats broke up in 1986, but reformed in 2013, without Johnnie Fingers or Gerry Cott.
Biography
All six members originate from Dún Laoghaire, Ireland. Having been booked for their first gig under the name "The Nightlife Thugs," the group agreed on the name change, when Garry Roberts threatened to resign if they were called that, to the "Boomtown Rats" after a gang of children that Geldof had read about in Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Bound for Glory . They became a notable band, but one whose accomplishments were overshadowed by the charity work of frontman Bob Geldof, a former journalist with the New Musical Express.
The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays (Official Video)
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
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published: 17 Feb 2011
The Boomtown Rats. I Don't Like Mondays.
The Boomtown Rats.
published: 27 Oct 2007
The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays (Live Aid 1985)
The Boomtown Rats performing at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. Broadcast across the world via one of the largest satellite link-ups of all time, the concerts were seen by around 40% of the global population.
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published: 21 Sep 2018
Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap [totp2]
[Video] Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap [totp2] (Wiggy St Helens UK 2008)
published: 30 Sep 2008
The Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
published: 09 Feb 2011
The Boomtown Rats - Diamond Smiles
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - Diamond Smiles'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
published: 09 Feb 2011
The Boomtown Rats - Someone's Looking At You
Official video for 'Bob Geldof - Someone's Looking At You'. The new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
published: 15 Feb 2011
The Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap (Live Aid 1985) | REMASTERED
The Boomtown Rats performing at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. Broadcast across the world via one of the largest satellite link-ups of all time, the concerts were seen by around 40% of the global population.
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Music video by The Boomtown Rats performing The Boomtown Rats. (C) 2013 Mercury Records Limited
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://za...
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
#TheBoomtownRats #IDontLikeMondays #Vevo
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
#TheBoomtownRats #IDontLikeMondays #Vevo
The Boomtown Rats performing at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof ...
The Boomtown Rats performing at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. Broadcast across the world via one of the largest satellite link-ups of all time, the concerts were seen by around 40% of the global population.
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The Boomtown Rats performing at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. Broadcast across the world via one of the largest satellite link-ups of all time, the concerts were seen by around 40% of the global population.
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Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod....
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - Diamond Smiles'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.u...
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - Diamond Smiles'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - Diamond Smiles'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
Official video for 'Bob Geldof - Someone's Looking At You'. The new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp...
Official video for 'Bob Geldof - Someone's Looking At You'. The new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
Official video for 'Bob Geldof - Someone's Looking At You'. The new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
The Boomtown Rats performing at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof ...
The Boomtown Rats performing at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. Broadcast across the world via one of the largest satellite link-ups of all time, the concerts were seen by around 40% of the global population.
Watch this space for new videos only in the official Live Aid YouTube Channel.
Remember to subscribe: https://bit.ly/2WJweqH
#LiveAid #Live8 #BandAid
The Boomtown Rats performing at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. Broadcast across the world via one of the largest satellite link-ups of all time, the concerts were seen by around 40% of the global population.
Watch this space for new videos only in the official Live Aid YouTube Channel.
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Musi...
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Music video by The Boomtown Rats performing The Boomtown Rats. (C) 2013 Mercury Records Limited
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Music video by The Boomtown Rats performing The Boomtown Rats. (C) 2013 Mercury Records Limited
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
#TheBoomtownRats #IDontLikeMondays #Vevo
The Boomtown Rats performing at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. Broadcast across the world via one of the largest satellite link-ups of all time, the concerts were seen by around 40% of the global population.
Remember to subscribe to stay up to date with all new releases in the channel.
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
Official video for 'The Boomtown Rats - Diamond Smiles'. Bob Geldof's new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
Official video for 'Bob Geldof - Someone's Looking At You'. The new album 'How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell' is available here: http://zaphod.uk.vvhp.net/v-v/110221112550
The Boomtown Rats performing at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine disaster. Broadcast across the world via one of the largest satellite link-ups of all time, the concerts were seen by around 40% of the global population.
Watch this space for new videos only in the official Live Aid YouTube Channel.
Remember to subscribe: https://bit.ly/2WJweqH
#LiveAid #Live8 #BandAid
Classic Rats Hits out September 9th
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http://www.boomtownrats.co.uk/
Music video by The Boomtown Rats performing The Boomtown Rats. (C) 2013 Mercury Records Limited
The Boomtown Rats are an Irish new wave band that had a series of Irish and UK hits between 1977 and 1985. The group is led by vocalist Bob Geldof. The other members of the original line-up were Garry Roberts (lead guitar), Johnnie Fingers (keyboard), Pete Briquette (bass), Gerry Cott (guitar) and Simon Crowe (drums). The Boomtown Rats broke up in 1986, but reformed in 2013, without Johnnie Fingers or Gerry Cott.
Biography
All six members originate from Dún Laoghaire, Ireland. Having been booked for their first gig under the name "The Nightlife Thugs," the group agreed on the name change, when Garry Roberts threatened to resign if they were called that, to the "Boomtown Rats" after a gang of children that Geldof had read about in Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Bound for Glory . They became a notable band, but one whose accomplishments were overshadowed by the charity work of frontman Bob Geldof, a former journalist with the New Musical Express.
The silicon chip inside her head. Gets switched to overload, And nobody's gonna go to school today, She's going to make them stay at home, And daddy doesn't understand it, He always said she was as good as gold, And he can see no reason. Cos there are no reasons. What reason do you need to be shown. Tell me why. I Dont't like Mondays. Tell me why I don't like Mondays tell me why I dont like Mondays I want to shoot. The whole day down. The Telex machine is kept so clean. As it types to a waiting world, And Mother feels so shocked, Father's world is rocked, And their thoughts turn to. Their own little girl. Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen, No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat, They can see no reasons. Cos there are no reasons. What reason do you need to be shown Oh, woaah (repeat chorus) All the playing's stopped in the playground now She wants to play with her toys a while And school's out early and soon we'll be learning And the lesson today is how to die, And then the bullhorn crackles, And the captain tackles, With the problems and the how's and why's And he can see no reasons Cos there are no reasons What reason do you need to die Tell me why. I Dont't like Mondays. Tell me why I don't like Mondays tell me why I don't like, I don't like, I don't like Mondays tell me why I don't like, I don't like , I don't like Mondays I want to shoot, the whole day down
The BoomtownRats have announced a 50th anniversary tour of the UK for October and November 2025 ... — The Boomtown Rats Official (@BoomtownThe) December 2, 2024. The Boomtown Rats will play..
The BoomtownRats star died in November last year at the age of 72, with the band confirming the sad news with ‘a very heavy heart.’ ... Roberts was full of ‘rage’ which helped Boomtown Rats songs become what they were (Picture.
Garry Roberts, who has died aged 72, was a co-founder and the lead guitarist of the BoomtownRats, the band that rode the punk wave with hits such as Rat Trap and I Don’t Like Mondays and launched the stellar career of Bob Geldof.
Garry Roberts, the guitarist and founding member of Irish rock band The BoomtownRats, has died at the age of 72 ... Geldof eventually came up with The Boomtown Rats after he read the phrase in US protest ...