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The Boomtown Rats is a new wave artist from County Dublin, Ireland formed in 1975. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
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The Fine Art of Surfacing
1979 · 10 tracks
A Tonic for the Troops
1978
The Boomtown Rats
1977
Mondo Bongo
1981
V Deep
1982
In the Long Grass
2005
Citizens of Boomtown
2020
The First 50 Years: Songs Of Boomtown Glory
2025
Dawn Of The Rats: B-Sides, Demos And Live 1975-1979
2025
Live Rats 2013 at the London Roundhouse
2014
Back to Boomtown: Classicratshits
2013
Back To Boomtown : Classic Rats Hits
2013
Best of The Boomtown Rats
2003
Loudmouth - The Best Of Bob Geldof & The Boomtown Rats
1994
Greatest Hits
1987
Trash Glam Baby
Single · 2026
There's No Tomorrow Like Today (The Legend Mix)
Single · 2026
Here's a Postcard (Hot Mix)
Single · 2026
There's No Tomorrow Like Today
Single · 2026
The Boomtown Rats at Live Aid (Live at Wembley Stadium, 13th July 1985)
Single · 2021
Out the Back of Boomtown
EP · 2021
The Boomtown Rats at Live Aid (Live at Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, 13th July 1985)
Single · 2021
Diamond Smiles
Single · 1979
Someone's Looking at You
Single · 1979
I Don't Like Mondays
Single · 1979
Like Clockwork
Single · 1978
The Boomtown Rats were one of the bands to come out of the UK new wave, punk genre. The group consisted of Pete Briquette (bass), Gerry Cott (guitar), Johnny Fingers (piano), Bob Geldof (vocals), Garry Roberts (guitar) and Simon Crowe (drummer). This Irish six-piece was primarily active between the years of 1975 - 1985 and best known for hits I Don’t Like Mondays and Rat Trap. In 1977, The Boomtown Rats appeared on Britain’s Top of the Pops performing Mary of the Fourth Form. The band had an interesting stage presence; Geldof was known for being new wave’s Mick Jagger and Fingers performed in striped pyjamas. Two years later, the band set off on a world tour and shortly after Geldof and Fingers wrote the classic I Don’t Like Mondays after hearing about a Californian girl that shot her school principal and injured other fellow students. The track was banned on American radio and only managed to reach #73 on the US charts. But it was named 1979’s Single of the Year by the British Pop and Rock awards and sold over a million copies in England alone. The early 80s ushered in the new romantics, a spin-off of the new wave movement, with bands like Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran. It als…