Next year's tour?

Mark L · Loudmouth

Next year's tour?

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

Maybe they expand and do a date or 2 in Europe. I think the timing was good this year. A few in the late Spring and Summer and then Autumn time. Oxford would perfect.

Derek The Dane · V Deep

We will just have to wait and see.The last concert is on Sunday,so lets see what Bob has to say.I for one will be stunned if Bob calls it a day after the success of the latest tour.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Mark L wrote:
Anyone care to comment on whether (a) this is likely and (b) when it might be?

I think they may do some festivals in the summer, and maybe some dates towards end of next year. If they carry on.

manatthetop · In the Long Grass

I agree with Derek here. Bob seem to be really enjoying this. I'm sure they must follow this up with a new album, and as some of you have already pointed out a new tour date. If this was the case, I think it would be in something along the lines of this tour. I have been to a lot of Geldof's solo gigs, and they come nowhere near this. As I have said B4 better at being bob the boomtown than bob the solo. Don't get me wrong I have everything he put out Boomtown & solo But it was the rats I fell in love with the songs are so good, and they were always a very good live band. I take my hat of the them. Thanks for the show's and I for one hope they keep on rating just that little bit longer.

Scottie · Loudmouth

From what I have heard Bob is back in the recording studio and wants to concentrate on his solo music after this tour ends. The possibility of a new album too. Which pleases me just fine.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Scottie wrote:
From what I have heard Bob is back in the recording studio and wants to concentrate on his solo music after this tour ends. The possibility of a new album too. Which pleases me just fine.

Apparently he has a song called Bob Geldof. Other tracks include, Back to Geldof, Boblife, Bob a Job, When the red red robin comes Bob Bob bobbing along and Geldof my cloud. He will premiere it all in the Irish pub in the middle of the fcuking desert.

Given the half baked nature of the new Rats songs, I don't want a new rats album.

-- Edited by ArrGee on Saturday 9th of November 2013 11:03:55 PM

Marti-Anne · Like Clockwork

I hope you are right Derek! Bob seems to have been really enjoying himself and the gigs have been amazing. If it wasnt for the inevitable physical signs of age it would be difficult to believe that they have been away for 27 years!

Hope they do decide to do a new album (without Boomtown or Rat being mentioned in a title Please!)

I think that any gigs next year will have higher attendances when the word gets out that they are back and on brilliant form. (I only found out by accident a few weeks ago when I decided I wanted to watch the old BTR videos. I'd have been gutted if I had not seen the Isle of Wight stuff until later and found out that I had missed them. As it is I have missed some gigs that I would have loved to have gone to but hey ho!!)

Will be keeping a sharp eye out for any information on albums or gigs.

bigbosscentral · House on Fire

How can you not want a new album? What is the problem? My favorite band have recorded a new EP. I was thrilled. After 27 years absence, 2013 has been thrilling and unexpected for Rats fans. I personally felt that the new EP was stronger than most of the material on Mondo Bongo and half of the material on V Deep. Do please make an album. Old rock fans hate change. There is just no nostalgia that can be attached to the EP yet. It was pretty strong.

Mark L · Loudmouth

ArrGee you forgot there will be a Christmas single called On a Bobsleigh....2000 (diamond's) miles

Mark L · Loudmouth

If we could get 10 songs like the brilliant Back to Boomtown, then Bigbosscentral, I'm with you. However, I do not want 10 Ratifieds thank you. They're throwaway tracks.

From what you say, I'm thinking you're under 35 and it's great you've discovered a band that was probably at its peak before/around your birth. For those that discovered them in our teens first time round, it's hard not to compare the new songs with how it felt when the singles came out late 70s/early to mid 80s. There was no nostalgia filter and you knew the quality of the songs where there was quality and you also knew, frankly, Charmed Lives would stiff massively. I try to be open-minded Bigbosscentral, but Ratlife contains 3 close Charmed Lives.....

bigbosscentral · House on Fire

I'm not saying the EP was perfect but neither was Mondo Bongo or V Deep. I do not understand why people would resist new material. If big Boomtown Rats fans don't want it- what is wrong with the world?

Mark L · Loudmouth

I'm not resisting anything. I welcome new material, but I have to be allowed to form an opinion on it, just as you are doing when you say 'the new EP was stronger than most of the material on Mondo Bongo and half of the material on V Deep'.

My opinion is different. Of course Mondo Bongo and V Deep were not perfect. However, I regard Ratified as overall nowhere near as good as either Mondo Bongo or V Deep.

It's nothing to do with nostalgia not having set in yet. I have said elsewhere here that I think Back to Boomtown is a great track and my other half thinks that their Prodigy-inspired 'The Boomtown Rats' is similarly excellent. I think it's poor. All you're witnessing is people on a forum coming to an informed, relative view to which they're fully entitled.....as you are.

You're not saying how old you are, but I'm guessing 25 to 35. If that's the case, I am really pleased they've impressed you so much. They have me too. But as for 78/79/80...............you really should have been there, it was so fantastic!

Derek The Dane · V Deep

I have heard Bobs new ALBUM will be called The Great Bob Of Indifference and has tracks like This Is The Bob Calling,The Bobby Club,One For Bob and a 7 minute space song called Bobby 2 where are you now.So looking foward to this.

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

Who are we thinking is under 35? Lol. I know it's not me, as much I'd like to think that, it's just I'm following this thread and I'm confused, as to who you're referring to.

I was practically on my knees begging Bob for mor Rats next year. He wasn't giving anything away, but he has said all along that they were waiting to see how things went. It's been a huge success. What does that tell you?

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

If they didn't dick around by shoehorning rat or boomtown in every song, then I might look forward to an album, but if ratlife is a taste of things to come, then I hope they just don't fcuking bother. As for being an old rock fan, I love hearing new music, far more likely to be playing arcade fire and arctic monkeys on my mp3 player than punk/New wave.

bigbosscentral · House on Fire

Why go on their forum to knock them? 'Don't fcuking bother' is not constructive in the least. I fully agree that music standards go up and down in bands- but let people discuss it in less base terms. I am thrilled they have reformed and recorded new material. I hope they record a new album and that it can be discussed on this forum civilly. I love the Rats I am keen to hear anything they have to offer. I may not like all of it- but maybe somebody else will and that can be talked about

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

Derek: The Vegetarian of Bob will be another album and How toCompose Bobs, with Here's to Bob on it and Pulled Apart by Bobs. He will rename his band the Bobs of Space

Mark L · Loudmouth

Jules - I think bigbosscentral is under 35. He's not confirming anything though, which is fair enough. Just really glad he's discovered the Rats, the forum and their new stuff appeals to him.

bigbosscentral · House on Fire

I'm 23 as it happens. Thanks mate. I love the Boomtown Rats. And never thought I'd have the chance to see them live- this year I've seen them at the Isle of Wight Festival, Bournemouth and the Roundhouse. And to hear new recorded material as well has made 2013 a bit of a dream come true. Long live the Rats!

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

It's fabulous that they are still gaining fans and very young ones at that

. Great stuff.

bigbosscentral · House on Fire

Thanks mate :)

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

bigbosscentral wrote:
Why go on their forum to knock them? 'Don't fcuking bother' is not constructive in the least. I fully agree that music standards go up and down in bands- but let people discuss it in less base terms. I am thrilled they have reformed and recorded new material. I hope they record a new album and that it can be discussed on this forum civilly. I love the Rats I am keen to hear anything they have to offer. I may not like all of it- but maybe somebody else will and that can be talked about

I don't, it's a forum for fans and has no direct connection whatsoever with the band (for very good reasons) and I did qualify the don't fcuking bother with the constructive comment not to shoehorn rat and boomtown in every song.

I shall repeat the first rule of the forum, which has been knocking around for nearly nine years now.

This forum is intended to provide an atmosphere of open communication, where each member can share his or her own insights and opinions.

http://boomtownrats.activeboard.com/t3476615/posting-guidelines-at-your-fingertips/

Despite the profanity filters best efforts, this is the Boomtown Rats forum, and as long as people aren't slinging mud at each other then they can write what they fcuking want! When Geldof stops swearing, I will

That said, I admire your points of view, and am delighted you like the new material.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Mark L wrote:
Mondo Bongo and V Deep were not perfect. However, I regard Ratified as overall nowhere near as good as either Mondo Bongo or V Deep.

I don't think as much Mondo Bongo and V Deep but it is only in relation to the other Rats LPs. Both are better albums than many of their peers produced at the time. There are some tracks such as Fall Down and He Watches It All that are just incredible, plus Banana Republic, Go Man Go, Up All Night and House on Fire are as better than a number of tracks on the previous albums. There are numerous other tracks that stand alongside most of what went before.

Looking back, to 1979, I thought the Rats were the perfect band. Up until the release of Surfacing, every single, album track and b-side was superb. I have to confess I didn't like Surfacing as much as the first two LPs but there was nothing that bad on it, but with Mondo Bongo and V Deep there are tracks which I positively dislike, though it is less than 50%. Sadly with Ratlife, it is 75%.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Mark L wrote:
Anyone care to comment on whether (a) this is likely and (b) when it might be?

I think the tour just ended succeeded beyond most of our wildest dreams. I feared half empty halls and possibly some cancellations, though ! never was much of an optimist, me.

If they can get some festival line ups next Summer that would be good. Better still more indoor Autumn dates as I prefer indoor gigs. If there is a new album then new dates in the next few years are almost guaranteed. Even if they only play together sporadically then I'd still be happy. I don't expect prolonged, extended touring, more the occasional, special event.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

noelindublin wrote:
I don't expect prolonged, extended touring, more the occasional, special event.

I don't know if they could do it in their own right, but a Teenage Cancer Trust night at the Albert Hall would fit the bill. It would probably have to be along the lines of the Noel and Damon night earlier this year with them sharing the bill with peers like The Stranglers, The Damned and Elvis Costello.