The Boomtown Rats Guitarist Garry Roberts Dead at 72: 'He Was The Legend' Garry Roberts was a founding member and crucial to the Irish Rock success "who summed up the sense of who The Rats are" By.

In early 2020, The Boomtown Rats' year was shaping up to be a blockbuster. The Irish band — led by frontman and activist Bob Geldof, who later became known as the co-organizer of Live Aid and co ...

The Boomtown Rats played their first U.S. show in more than 25 years on Friday night, taking the stage at New York City’s Terminal 5 for Smithwick’s Presents the Big Session.

The Live Aid concerts for African famine relief turn 40 on Sunday, July 13, but for organizer Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats ...

Following their reunion in 2013, the Rats—Geldof, guitarist Garry Roberts, bassist Pete Briquette and drummer Simon Crowe—released Citizens of Boomtown last month, their first new studio album ...

Elsewhere in the interview, he looks back at the first Boomtown Rats show in October 1975. “A girl out of 30 people in the crowd walked over [at the end] and said she wanted to shag me,” he says.

Bob Geldof's band, The Boomtown Rats will reform to perform at The Isle of White festival, The Guardian understands. It will be the first time they've played together since 1986. "Playing again ...

The Boomtown Rats unveil the first new song from their forthcoming album Citizens Of Boomtown, today on BMG. Entitled 'Trash Glam Baby' the single is written by Bob Geldof, and produced by Rats ...

The Boomtown Rats’ then manager, Fachtna O’Ceallaigh, remembers the “cabin fever” of 10 days in Blooms Hotel with the international press waiting outside.

The Boomtown Rats, the new wave band which brought Bob Geldof to fame, are to be united once more as they join the many acts of yesteryear who have bowed to the temptation to reform.

Irish singer-songwriter and political activist Bob Geldof called Elon Musk and President Donald Trump “thugs” during the 40th anniversary event of Live Aid, to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopi ...

Steve May typed: "The Boomtown Rats were the first band I really loved as a kid & Garry's guitar was an essential part of that sound - RIP Garry Roberts." Related articles.