What should we call this tour/comeback?

noelindublin · Loudmouth

What should we call this tour/comeback?

Derek The Dane · V Deep

Just thinking,why don´t we give this tour/comeback a name.I am calling it the "Its All The Rage" tour.Any ideas...........

noelindublin · Loudmouth

For Bob anyway it should be called the "eat my words" tour. In 2001 he was quoted as saying about a Boomtown Rats reunion : "we are never going to reform as The Boomtown Rats. I just can't see myself up there doing She's So Modern. I've no intention of reliving peoples youth for them."

This was quoted from an Irish Times feature called Bob the rebuilder about the Rats reunion which appeared on 2 February 2013. How about In The Very Long Grass Tour, I mean 26 years plus. The Never In A Million Years Tour might be good. Most of the band and the fans thought it would never happed so it seems appropriate.

Re single Derek I don't think Geldof would deliberately try to rewrite a song like Joey or Rat Trap. Yes great if he comes up with a new song, but the Rats have always surprised and deliberately trying to copy some style the did earlier would not work in my opinion. But let's hope they do record again, and I think the odds are on that they will.

Lisa · Mondo Bongo

The Fine Art of Re-Surfacing .....

suss · In the Long Grass

Lisa wrote:
The Fine Art of Re-Surfacing .....

I should have copyrighted that on my RAM review wink . Even that mag last year (Vive le Rock) nicked it. Then again I'm sure I wasn't first to coin it...

Geldof site has the reunion dates under a heading of 'Close as You'll Ever Be'

Lisa · Mondo Bongo

suss wrote:
Lisa wrote:
The Fine Art of Re-Surfacing .....
I should have copyrighted that on my RAM review . Even that mag last year (Vive le Rock) nicked it. Then again I'm sure I wasn't first to coin it...

Oops!!! Well, great minds ....

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ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

How about the "Give Us Yer Fcuking Money!" tour ? smile

Mark L · Loudmouth

Best so far has come from Lisa

How could it be anything else apart from the Fine Art of Resurfacing?

Brilliant suggestion and nothing else could come close

Lisa · Mondo Bongo

Thank you Mark! And, Suss, I honestly didn't mean to copy, right!! I mean your article was just so amazing and mindblowing that I was concentrating on that , not the title. Yeah anyway, well I Can Make It (Up as well) If You Can!! He he he! Or maybe if you really want to take the credit, I could choose "A Second Time"??

suss · In the Long Grass

I'm not precious smile I can bask in the knowledge that I'm a creative genius.

Lisa · Mondo Bongo

suss wrote:
I'm not precious I can bask in the knowledge that I'm a creative genius.

There you go, making stuff up again ..

wink

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

The Ratering (www.thegatheringireland.com)

or

The Rich, Famous and Laid tour

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

The Rats seem to have stolen Lisa's idea if you look at the website. Lisa you should copyrighted it and sold it to them

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ArrGee1991 · Dave

Jules wrote:
The Rats seem to have stolen Lisa's idea if you look at the website.

Which website?

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

Boomtown Rats one. Have a read

ArrGee1991 · Dave

Jules wrote:
Boomtown Rats one. Have a read

Where? All it says is "See Boomtown Rats On Tour" and "World Tour Confirmed Dates"

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

It mentions it on the Vive Le Rats article. Not so much an official name, but someone has used this biggrin wink

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

suss wrote:
Lisa wrote:
The Fine Art of Re-Surfacing .....
I should have copyrighted that on my RAM review . Even that mag last year (Vive le Rock) nicked it. Then again I'm sure I wasn't first to coin it...

OK, suss had mentioned that, it's not the tour name.

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

It should be the official name.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Jules wrote:
It should be the official name.

No, too retro. And only hardcore fans would get it.

manatthetop · In the Long Grass

Call it whatever they want. Bottom line is they are back together again Which i throught would never see in my life time again.

Mark L · Loudmouth

It is unbelievable they're back but some thought on this would not go astray. When little thought was put into marketing in the past, the results were not good. V Deep output was either devoid of the band's name (Million Years) or the song title was fused with the artwork so it couldn't be read. Mind you that was Charmed Lives which was unsalvageable anyway!

manatthetop · In the Long Grass

For me it's not about having another hit single They have done all that, that's the differents this time round they can go out and enjoy the great songs they helped geldof put life into

noelindublin · Loudmouth

manatthetop wrote:
For me it's not about having another hit single They have done all that, that's the differents this time round they can go out and enjoy the great songs they helped geldof put life into

Even if they just worked on a new four track ep and put it out on vinyl that would be great. I'd dearly love to know if the lads can still write great songs. Geldof said in his RTE interview with John Murray that he is always thinking about songwriting- that is a good sign. Surely one aim of music is to surpass what you have done in the past, to surprise people who are content to live on past glories- that's what's so great about art.

Surely a new single would get some interest, rather than the lazy churning out of Mondays or Rat Trap by radio dj's? I don't see why a few new songs could do any harm. It would add a bit of spice and new enthusiasm for longtime fans.

Of course the old back catalogue of hits and great album tracks is peerless, and this should, and will, get centre stage, buy some new songs would be the icing on the cake.