First introduced in December 2024, The Boomtown Rats are sharing extra details about The First 50 Years: Songs Of Boomtown Glory, an anthology set celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Irish band’s formation. The 24-song 2LP set and 27-song CD will formally hit cabinets on September 19, 2025, and is obtainable for pre-order now. All of the tracks included whether or not chosen by the band and by on-line fan polling, and the packaging will embrace a take a look at the band’s lengthy profession, making The First 50 Years a one-of-a-kind retrospective.
Not lengthy after The First 50 Years arrives, the band will depart on an in depth United Kingdom tour. The Pleased Birthday Boomtown Tour will kick off on October 10 in Nottingham earlier than making stops in cities like London, Glasgow, and Liverpool. All informed, the Boomtown Rats will play 12 dates over the course of October and November.
Fashioned in Dún Laoghaire, Eire in 1975, the Boomtown Rats have develop into one of the crucial revered and emulated bands of their era, inspiring everybody from U2 to Sinead O’Connor to Fontaines DC. Led by Bob Geldof, the band was a near-immediate smash of their dwelling nation and in the UK. In 1979, the band got here to world prominence with their hit “I Don’t Like Mondays,” which charted throughout the globe and topped charts in Eire, Australia, and the UK. “Someone’s Looking At You” and “Banana Republic” introduced additional worldwide success.
2025 additionally brings one other main anniversary for the band. 40 years in the past, Geldof co-organized Dwell Assist, a trans-Atlantic profit live performance to assist fund aid for famine in Ethiopia. The Boomtown Rats carried out from London and the live performance was broadcast all around the globe, turning into not solely one of many Boomtown Rats’ most well-known performances, however one of many defining popular culture moments of the Eighties. Not lengthy after the live performance, the band went on hiatus for a number of years, formally reforming in 2013. The band launched their first new music of the 2000s with 2020’s Residents Of Boomtown.
Order The Boomtown Rats’ The First 50 Years: Songs of Boomtown Glory now.
