The Boomtown Rats have launched new single ‘Trash Glam, Baby’.
The 70s’ rock belter is first monitor to be shared from Bob Geldof and co’s upcoming file, ‘Citizens Of Boomtown’, their first in 36 years.
The 65-year-old singer has revealed the tune was impressed by an encounter with a ”bored” teenager working at a classic retailer he was procuring at, who he describes as ”so 21st century”
On the origins of the monitor, the frontman shared: ”Back then I’d written a tune concerning the amazons I’d encountered making the scene within the late 1970s: ‘She’s So Modern’ was successful. [‘She’s so 20th century/She’s so 1970s’].
”A millennium and twenty years later down on the S-bend of the Kings Road, that squiggle that turns into the Worlds End and the place these women would inhabit Lloyd Johnson’s and Vivienne Westwood’s outlets, the glam has gone and moved east.
”But Vivienne remains to be there.
”Now reverse and beside her store Sex there are three respectable charity outlets.
”I’m going there to take a look at cool shirts and so on.
”On a Saturday in 2017 there was an excellent child of round 16/17 speaking to her pal behind the counter.
”She was fabulous. Like a bastard hybrid of The New York Dolls and early Roxy Music.
”A sequined tramp. A residing glitter ball.
”They have been moaning about it being Saturday and nothing to do and no cash to do it with.
”The common anthem of the bored weekend.
”She did not look consciously ”retro” or something, she seemed fantastic and delightful in that damned youth method.
”She wasn’t lovely (however she was), a nice, regular lady from the blocks down the street, who intuitively understood the theatre of the self, which that peculiar a part of the world has at all times engendered since …. oh because the bohemians of the late 19th century by to the 60s and the Stones, the 70s and The Pistols, the 80s and Durans/Anthony Price store after which – like the remainder of the 90s – not a lot.
”But right here she was once more, doing that distinctive factor English teenagers uniquely do, a grumpy, regular English teenager being extraordinary, wanting the boll**. She must be a tune. Here she is. She’s so 21st century….”
The 10-track LP is out on March 13, 2020, and Geldof beforehand admitted now could not be a extra poignant time to unleash their new rock ‘n’ roll tunes that are a response to the present political local weather.
He stated: ”So why a brand new file?
”Because that is what bands do. They make data. ”Songwriters write songs.
”There’s a lot to reply to on this new and completely different febrile ambiance that we reside in.
”People overlook we took our identify from Woody Guthrie, the nice musical activist.
”I believe The Boomtown Rats have at all times proven that rock’n’roll is a type of musical activism.
”The music has intent and function even when that’s simply the sound, about boy/lady, nothing significantly in any respect, every part usually, or pointed polemical … no matter.”
The ‘I Don’t Like Monday’s’ hitmakers – accomplished by bassist Pete Briquette, drummer Simon Crowe, and guitarist Garry Roberts – have additionally introduced a UK, kicking off at Brighton Dome on March 26.
The Boomtown Rats’ unique line-up cut up in 1986 however they reformed with Geldof in 2013 and have been touring at festivals ever since.
The new album will probably be their first since 1984’s ‘The Long Grass’.
The track-listing for ‘Citizens of Boomtown’ is:
1. ‘Trash Glam, Baby’
2. ‘Sweet Thing’
3. ‘Monster Monkeys’
4. ‘She Said No’
5. ‘Passing Through’
6. ‘Here’s A Postcard’
7. ‘Okay.I.S.S.’
8. ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Yé Yé’
9. ‘Get A Grip’
10. ‘The Boomtown Rats’
