What you can look forward to in the next six months...

noelindublin · Loudmouth

What you can look forward to in the next six months...

ArrGee1991 · Dave

Interviews in the Evening Standard, The Times and The Telegraph.
Warm up dates
TV appearance on Jonathan Ross/Graham Norton
Interviews on Radio 2
Scathing NME review on 19th June 2013
I Don't Like Mondays appearing in the lower reaches of the iTunes chart
No crosswords from suss

What else?

ArrGee1991 · Dave

noelindublin wrote:
How about a new single... Followed by an album...

I don't think either is likely this year, if at all. It has taken Pulp two years since announcing their return to finally release a new song.

There are some interesting date for the diaries

14th March 2013 - Irish Village, Dubai - Will Geldof play with his old band?
4th May 2013 - The Irish Centre Corby. With The Blockheads - Which Bob will be singing? Would Geldof settle for a support slot?
28th July 2013 - Stimmen Festival, Germany - Will this be a solo Geldof show or will it be with the Rats?

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Looking forward to Darren, Garry and Simon 'covering' a Geldof solo track The Great Song of Indifference. It seems probable that they will get to play this at some stage in the year. Are there any other Geldof solo tracks worthy of a Rats makeover?

Looking forward to Geldof ditching the guitar and just singing and playing the harmonica. With Garry and Darren on guitar and Briquette on bass I hope Geldof can just let loose, and move around the stage a bit, rather than pointlessly strumming. Too many cooks spoiled the broth etc.

-- Edited by noelindublin on Thursday 31st of January 2013 03:52:30 PM

suss · In the Long Grass

ArrGee1991 wrote:
No crosswords from suss
What else?

1 Across - Forum owner in great confusion (7)

1 Down - Ungracious forum owner found where ashes smouldering (2, 5)

2 Across - Forum owner reign at review? (7)

Could do some more if you want??? biggrin

noelindublin · Loudmouth

ArrGee1991 wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
How about a new single... Followed by an album...
I don't think either is likely this year, if at all. It has taken Pulp two years since announcing their return to finally release a new song.

There's not much point in Geldof moaning about the state of modern music to Simon Cowell, the newspapers , or whoever and then trading on songs he wrote over 35 years ago. Last week a reformation/reunion seemed like science fiction so who can tell? Remember Blondie got to number one after years of chart absence, Bowie had a hit after years of being away too. I still belive that if a song is good enough it will get noticed- music has always worked that way, and the old Geldof gob might stir things up a bit, just like in the old days.

Trading off past glories is all well and good, but equally all bands need an injection of new songs and attitude. Even to conjecture which subjects would catch Geldof and the bands imagination as being worthy new subject matter in intriguing. I've no idea if they will record new material but I certainly hope they do. They haven't let us down so far so the odds are on a pretty decent album.

ArrGee1991 · Dave

noelindublin wrote:
Looking forward to Darren, Garry and Simon 'covering' a Geldof solo track The Great Song of Indifference. It seems probable that they will get to play this at some stage in the year. Are there any other Geldof solo tracks worthy of a Rats makeover?
Looking forward to Geldof ditching the guitar and just singing and playing the harmonica. With Garry and Darren on guitar and Briquette on bass I hope Geldof can just let loose, and move around the stage a bit, rather than pointlessly strumming.

No Geldof tracks. Not even The Great Song of Indifference. One is too many.

I hope Geldof does summon up some of the old enthusiasm. The last time I saw him he hardly engaged with the crowd at all.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

ArrGee1991 wrote:
noelindublin wrote:
Looking forward to Darren, Garry and Simon 'covering' a Geldof solo track The Great Song of Indifference. It seems probable that they will get to play this at some stage in the year. Are there any other Geldof solo tracks worthy of a Rats makeover?
Looking forward to Geldof ditching the guitar and just singing and playing the harmonica. With Garry and Darren on guitar and Briquette on bass I hope Geldof can just let loose, and move around the stage a bit, rather than pointlessly strumming.
No Geldof tracks. Not even The Great Song of Indifference. One is too many.
I hope Geldof does summon up some of the old enthusiasm. The last time I saw him he hardly engaged with the crowd at all.

He was fairly animated at Islington Town Hall especially towards the end. It's hard to maybe engage when you're singing songs about your late wife's death. There is a certain internalisation of the music don't you think. But then live music is a bit odd in that you get bits of everything. The assertive rock numbers, the vulnerable suicidal sad songs and lots in between. There is a range of mood gears to go through.

Geldof solo doing the old Rats numbers can be hit and miss. Most often miss, but then partly it's me knowing it's not the Boomtown Rats. Sometimes there are good versions but most often using stupid instruments like ukelele and violin on songs where they just do not suit ruins it. I suppose fans have idealised versions of songs in their head from the past, which are perfect in every way, ie the real band playing them , correct rock instruments and performed somewhere between 1977 and '85. Bobs solo work always seems watered down but that could all be in my mind.

Anyway live music tends to pass in a drunken blur, so something more solid like a new album is much more concrete ,and for me more desirable.

suss · In the Long Grass

For me, rightly or wrongly, this will succeed best if it's an unadulterated set of Rats only classics. Any inclusion of a Geldof track, a Feelgood track, an early demo track or even a bastardised well known one (Geldof doing Mary comes to mind) will be of interest to a very limited minority. Garry and Simon have stayed true to studio versions by and large (with the instruments at their disposal obviously) and gained many plaudits from the punters in so doing. My preference is for the basics approach, and whilst I fully respect that others might like the interpretation of songs playing live affords, I suspect majority prefer the most familiar version. Surely has to be true amongst a festival crowd there for a variety of bands and not just Rats?

As such, these (type of) reunion gigs really ought to be optimised, giving no reason for either the crowd or the press to be disillusioned. Once that battle is won, then the variations to set, the variation to renditions, even new tracks will all command more sympathy - but has to be subsequently.

I'm fascinated by who will win the day with style adopted. Will it be Bob, with his propensity to 'adjust' songs such as Mary or Banana Republic, precisely because they are his, or the others, who want to play them as they were known and loved, for reasons above.

I'd absolutely love it if Bob pandered to what I think is majority view, and let himself go a bit sans guitar, but my concern is even the notion will stir his contrary nature. I'm still not convinced by his claim V Deep is best Rats album.

So long as we don't see band split due to musical differences before their hour is up I'll be happy either way I suppose biggrin

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

I'm with you Suss - it MUST be purely Rats. It would be clearly wrong to have any Geldof solo tracks or anything else.

suss · In the Long Grass

The only exception can be everone singing Happy Birthday to Garry biggrin

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

suss wrote:
The only exception can be everone singing Happy Birthday to Garry

Crikey, what a great thing to do on your birthday!

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

Fantastic Birthday present and yes, we can sing Happy Birthday to Garry. Definitely allowed.

JoanOfArc · The Fine Art of Surfacing

Things to look forward to?

apologies if someone has already slipped this into the conversation, but aren't we all forgetting the reunion at IOW festival?

yes everyone, heeelllloooooo, anyone in there?

and of course us all getting together for a good old boogie down the front somewhere where it will be luschiously MUDDY and we can all slip and slide around in it...... lol what fun...............

btw i am up for camping really, seems everyone else is doing hotels, but...... personally i prefer the cheaper option of camping and being able to see more music with saved dosh.....

i need someone to camp with, or do i go on my own?

hmmmm......... i have to rope someone else into this somehow.

ArrGee1991 · Dave

ArrGee1991 wrote:
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There are some interesting date for the diaries
14th March 2013 - Irish Village, Dubai - Will Geldof play with his old band?
4th May 2013 - The Irish Centre Corby. With The Blockheads Which Bob will be singing? Would Geldof settle for a support slot?
28th July 2013 - Stimmen Festival, Germany - Will this be a solo Geldof show or will it be with the Rats?

Scratch Corby date, but Friday 26th April 2013 - The Great British Alternative Festival, Minehead - Which Bob will be singing?

-- Edited by ArrGee1991 on Wednesday 6th of February 2013 09:50:38 PM

ArrGee1991 · Dave

suss wrote:
I'm still not convinced by his claim V Deep is best Rats album.
So long as we don't see band split due to musical differences before their hour is up I'll be happy either way I suppose

I fcuking hope that it ain't cos if they play Charmed Lives, I'll be outta wherever they happen to play.