Trash Glam, Baby is the first track to be shared from the band's new record, 'Citizens Of Boomtown', which will arrive on March 13 and mark their first new studio album together for 36 years. Bob Geldof said:
"Back then I'd written a song about the amazons I'd encountered making the scene in the late 1970s: ‘She's So Modern’ was a hit. ["She's so 20th century/She's so 1970s"]. A millennium and 2 decades later down at the S-bend of the Kings Road, that squiggle that becomes the Worlds End and where those girls would inhabit Lloyd Johnson’s and Vivienne Westwood’s shops, the glam has gone and moved east. But Vivienne is still there. Now opposite and beside her shop Sex there are 3 decent charity shops. I go there to check out cool shirts etc. On a Saturday in 2017 there was a glorious kid of around 16/17 talking to her friend behind the counter. She was fabulous. Like a bastard hybrid of The New York Dolls and early Roxy Music. A sequined tramp. A living glitter ball. They were moaning about it being Saturday and nothing to do and no money to do it with. The usual anthem of the bored weekend. She didn't look consciously "retro" or anything, she looked wonderful and beautiful in that damned youth way. She wasn’t beautiful (but she was), a pleasant, normal girl from the blocks down the road, who` intuitively understood the theatre of the self, which that peculiar part of the world has always engendered since....oh since the bohemians of the late 19th century through to the 60s and the Stones, the 70s and The Pistols, the 80s and Durans/Anthony Price shop and then - like the rest of the 90s - not much. But here she was again, doing that unique thing English teens uniquely do, a grumpy, normal English teenager being extraordinary, looking the bollox. She should be a song. Here she is. She's so 21st century...."
Head below to spin the new song, which boasts an earworm of a chorus and has a nostalgic, lo-fi sound recalling the '70s pop and rock scene which the band came up in.
Simon Crowe, Pete Briquette, Bob Geldof and Garry Roberts will support the new record with a spring UK tour, calling in Brighton, Cheltenham, Birmingham, Liverpool, Cardiff, Cambridge, York, Manchester, Gateshead and London, where they'll perform at the Palladium. Tickets are on sale now.
Boomtown Rats Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Thu March 26 2020 - BRIGHTON Dome
Fri March 27 2020 - CHELTENHAM Town Hall
Wed April 15 2020 - BIRMINGHAM Town Hall
Fri April 17 2020 - LIVERPOOL Grand Central
Sat April 18 2020 - CARDIFF University Great Hall
Fri April 24 2020 - CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
Sat April 25 2020 - YORK Barbican
Wed April 29 2020 - MANCHESTER O2 Ritz
Fri May 01 2020 - LONDON Palladium
Sat May 02 2020 - GATESHEAD Sage
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