Win Tickets For Boomtown Rats Live At Leeds O2 Academy
Monday, 21 October 2013
Written by Jon Stickler
This competition has now closed. Thanks to all those who entered. Congratulations to Helen Knight!
Bob Geldof will take his reformed Boomtown Rats on a UK tour starting tomorrow, Tuesday October 22, and Stereoboard and Eventim UK are giving fans a chance to win a pair of tickets to the band's show at Leeds O2 Academy on Thursday October 31.
The Boomtown Rats head out on tour in support of their 'Back to Boomtown: Classic Rats' album, which they released back in August. The tour will kick off at Bournemouth's O2 Academy on October 22. Further dates are slated for Cambridge, Norwich, Bristol, London, Nottingham, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle and Birmingham.
"Age, curiosity and cash prompted our interest in getting together again," Geldof said. "Age and cash are self evident. Curiosity about each other and what we did together in the '70s and '80s. Curiosity about those songs that seem to have endured and the music and band that powered them. When I sang again Rat Trap, Looking After No 1, Mondays, Someone's Looking At You, Banana Republic, She's So Modern etc there was nothing I would change.
"On re-hearing, on re-singing them I understood that they could have been written yesterday. The circumstances within which they were written hadn't changed. Tragically and unfortunately. I could sing those words with utter conviction. This isn't nostalgia, rather perhaps a time to be angry again."
Tue October 22nd 2013 - BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy Bournemouth
Wed October 23rd 2013 - CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
Fri October 25th 2013 - NORWICH UEA
Sat October 26th 2013 - LONDON Roundhouse
Mon October 28th 2013 - BRISTOL O2 Academy Bristol
Tue October 29th 2013 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Thu October 31st 2013 - LEEDS O2 Academy Leeds
Fri November 1st 2013 - MANCHESTER Academy
Sun November 3rd 2013 - GLASGOW O2 Academy Glasgow
Mon November 4th 2013 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE O2 Academy Newcastle
Wed November 6th 2013 - BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy Birmingham
This competition has now closed. Thanks to all those who entered. Congratulations to Helen Knight!
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