Sir Bob Geldof joins Zoe Ball for Breakfast

Mark L · Loudmouth

Sir Bob Geldof joins Zoe Ball for Breakfast

Mark L · Loudmouth

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039bln9

Great interview but sadly there will be no new album

Only Ratify and Ratlife will follow the other 2 new tracks on Back to Boomtown

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

Too much Rat stuff. Sounds naff.

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

Apparently Back to Boomtown was played the other day. Did anyone hear it?

suss · In the Long Grass

My parents are radio 2 regular listeners. Came round today and mentioned they had caught the interview and 'Boomtown Rats' track a day or two earlier.

Was absolutely delighted to hear my Dad also say new song is 'bloody awful' - made me feel 15 all over again as we discussed the merits of modern music biggrin

-- Edited by suss on Saturday 7th of September 2013 09:49:01 PM

Mark L · Loudmouth

Not yet, but picking CD up later.

Agree on the 'Rat' titling of songs. Some fabulous songs have been so titled in the past of course, such as Rat Trap and Do the Rat, but past performance is no guarantee as they say....

Last time this should have possibly been used was 83/84 if a UK greatest hits had have emerged (which it should have, to help rekindle interest) and the title should almost certainly have been the clever 'Ratrospective or 'In ratrospect'

suss · In the Long Grass

Rats bit starts about 1hr 43 in if it helps.

Love the fact Bob rates the vocalist on Reach Out I'll Be There as one of the all time greats, the one and only Levi Strauss, and for once I don't think he meant it .

noelindublin · Loudmouth

suss wrote:
Rats bit starts about 1hr 43 in if it helps.
Love the fact Bob rates the vocalist on Reach Out I'll Be There as one of the all time greats, the one and only Levi Strauss, and for once I don't think he meant it .

When he was standing in for Jarvis ****er on 6 Music, he said it was good to be standing in for Joe ****er. I suspect this was Bobs sense of humour, but I'm not sure if anyone else noticed.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Mark L wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039bln9
Great interview but sadly there will be no new album
Only Ratify and Ratlife will follow the other 2 new tracks on Back to Boomtown

I wouldn't bet on their being no new album. A few years ago there would have been no 'regrouping'. Back To Boomtown sounds better than The Boomtown Rats. Who's to say if Ratified and Ratlife are not better still, and might go down well live?

Not sure why Geldof keeps criticising Facebook, Goolge etc and cannot put his feeling down in a song, a Rats song? I don't think he is going to stop writing songs any time soon, so it would seem reasonable that he may record more songs with the Rats over time. Even some old r and b standards might do the job.

Mark L · Loudmouth

It'a a very good point Noel and I hope there is something new - certainly Back to Boomtown is a decent enough track and shows the potential is there.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Mark L wrote:
It'a a very good point Noel and I hope there is something new - certainly Back to Boomtown is a decent enough track and shows the potential is there.

I'd be happy enough for a new album to emerge sometime in the next few years, not some rushed job just for the sake of it. If the band remain of good terms and have a successful tour are they likely to just pack it all in? Having seen the response they got at Chagstock and Cork first hand it was beyond what I ever expected to see.

If Geldof feels he has a different solo 'voice' to express then fair enough. I'd always buy his albums no problem. It would be nice to think that some of his songs could be new Boomtown Rats songs, and if it take a few years and is something he and the band wish to do then I for one would be very happy. I don't expect the Boomtown Rats to sound like they did in the 1970s but the band has an undoubted chemistry that I'd like to sample some more of.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

noelindublin wrote:
I'd be happy enough for a new album to emerge sometime in the next few years, not some rushed job just for the sake of it.
If Geldof feels he has a different solo 'voice' to express then fair enough. I'd always buy his albums no problem. It would be nice to think that some of his songs could be new Boomtown Rats songs, and if it take a few years and is something he and the band wish to do then I for one would be very happy. I don't expect the Boomtown Rats to sound like they did in the 1970s but the band has an undoubted chemistry that I'd like to sample some more of.

Next few years? How old would they be? Considering their finest hour was a rushed job, the quicker they do it the better.

I do buy his solo albums (eventually, I even got How To Compose a few weeks back on Amazon), but I think I buy them simply because I'm a completist. That said I have nothing by Jiggerypipery nor Greengate and I gave Gerry Cott's last album a miss. Doesn't mean I won't go looking for them on eBay...

If they don't sound like they did at their best, then I don't really care whether they make a new record or not. I'd be happier if they remastered early demos and issued them.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

What odds do you give on a new album, in say, the next three years ie from Sept 2013 to Sept 2016? An new album being at least eight new original songs.

Evens? 3/1, 5/1, 10/1, 20/1, 50/1

I don't know much about betting (as Gordon Taylor would say!) but I'd go evens or under 7/1. Paddy Power take 'novelty' bets but I can just imagine the guy at PP trying to work out the odds on a new Rats album. smile

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

noelindublin wrote:
What odds do you give on a new album, in say, the next three years ie from Sept 2013 to Sept 2016? An new album being at least eight new original songs.
Evens? 3/1, 5/1, 10/1, 20/1, 50/1
I don't know much about betting (as Gordon Taylor would say!) but I'd go evens or under 7/1. Paddy Power take 'novelty' bets but I can just imagine the guy at PP trying to work out the odds on a new Rats album.

In next three years, about the same odds as Arsenal winning the Champions League. 40/1. Not impossible, but highly unlikely.

These are far more probable things that could happen in the next 12 months/3 years.

Play Royal Albert Hall
Play Glastonbury
Play outside UK/Ireland
Appear on Graham Norton/Jonathan Ross show
Support David Bowie