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Known Tour Dates This
section is a record of all known Boomtown Rats tours dates. Special thanks go those providing dates including Boomtown Rats drummer Simon Crowe, Ian Roberts, Chris Pollard, Yushi, Hans Marius, Colin Crawford, Nico, and Dean Hayles. Also See: Cover Versions and Top of the Pops Coming Soon ! 'Video's' , 'Books'. |
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| Name
of Tour |
Year |
Date |
Location |
Country |
| The
First Ever Gig |
1975 |
Nov
4 |
Bolton Street Tech | Ireland |
| ? |
? |
Poulaphouca | Ireland |
|
| ? |
? |
Moran's, Moran's Hotel, Dublin | Ireland |
|
| ? |
? |
A flat back truck, through Dublin | Ireland |
|
| ? |
? |
Cork Galway Limerick Waterford Youghal Killarney National Stadium, Dublin |
Ireland |
|
| 1976 |
? |
The Baggott Inn, Baggott Street, Dublin | Ireland |
|
| ? |
? |
Groningen
Festival Milky Way, Leidseplein |
Holland |
|
| First
Ever UK Gig |
1977
|
May
6 |
Lodestar club, Blackburn, Lancs | England |
| May
? |
The Marquee, London (1st major British gig). | England |
||
|
Support for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers |
June
17 July 20 |
Birmingham
Town Hall |
England |
|
| Aug 19 | Moran's
Hotel, Dublin (with guests Phil Lynott and Brian Robertson from Thin Lizzy) |
Ireland |
||
|
|
Aug |
Civic Hall,
Wolverhampton |
UK |
|
| 1978 |
Jan
13 |
Malmo * | Sweden |
|
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Mar 17 |
At
Phil Lynotts house (St Patricks Day) Croyden Greyhound, Surrey |
||
| Support
for Thin Lizzy |
? |
Daleymount soccer ground | Ireland |
|
| June
13 |
Belfast (with guest Phil Lynott) | N.Ireland |
||
| A
Tonic For The Troops Don't Believe What You Hear |
June 15
|
Victoria
Hall, Hanley, Stoke-On-Trent
|
UK |
|
| ?
? Aug
9 Aug 12 Sept 1 |
Dates
and venues unknown. Stockolm* Ruisrock, Turku Music Festival Club 7 |
Germany
Austria Sweden Finland Norway |
||
![]() Knebworth Festival '78 |
Sept
9 |
Knebworth. "The second Knebworth Festival of 1978 saw Frank Zappa, The Tubes, Peter Gabriel, The Boomtown Rats, Rockpile with Dave Edmunds & Nick Lowe and Wilko Johnson & Solid Senders. As the second event that year it was billed as Not Another Boring Old Knebworth and with this great programme of anarchistic characters turned out to be anything but." |
England |
|
| Mini
UK Tour ( to promote Rat Trap) |
Oct |
(supported by Reggae Regulars) |
England Scotland Scotland England England England England England |
|
![]() Seasonal Turkey Tour Xmas '78 |
Dec |
|
UK |
|
|
|
1979 |
Feb
27 |
San
Diego |
USA |
![]() California World Music Festival |
April
7/8 |
Califfornia
World Music Festival, L.A. Coliseum. |
USA |
|
| |
April
20 |
Palladium,
Dallas, Texas Other May dates unknown. *Support
band - Kenny & the Kasuals |
USA
|
|
| Loch
Lomond Festival |
May
27 |
Loch Lomond Festival | Scotland |
|
| Sept |
|
UK |
||
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1980
|
Jan ? |
Oslo |
Norway |
| March |
|
USA |
||
![]() Japan '80 |
April
28 April 29 April 30 May 1 May 3 May 4 May 6 May 7 |
Sun
Plaza Hall Tokyo |
Japan |
|
| May June |
|
Australia
& New Zealand |
||
| July |
? | Thailand |
||
| Aug |
Fly to Ibiza Sound Studios to record album | Spain |
||
| Oct |
London | England |
||
|
|
1981 |
Jan |
Tour support by The Atrix |
England |
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21 Feb 2 |
Berginn Chateau Neuf, Oslo |
Germany Norway |
|
![]() Surfacing USA (24 USA dates) |
Feb 15
|
Aragon, Chicago, Illinois(support-Jim Carrol)
|
USA |
|
|
|
April |
|
Japan |
|
| ? |
Geschiedenis - Parkpop | Holland |
||
| ? |
? |
Dates and venues unknown. | UK |
|
| 1982 |
Feb
01 Feb
04 |
Bombay
Rang Bhawan open air theatre Bangalore
Ashok Hotel Grounds Hong Kong
University |
India India Hong
Kong |
|
| March
21 March 29 March 31 |
Athens Sporting Zagreb Dom Sportova Milan Rolling Stone Rome Piper Club |
Greece
Italy Italy |
||
| April
02 |
Tenax Club, Florence | Italy |
||
| April 04 |
Hollywood,
California Madrid Sala Carolina Cascais Pabillao Sports Oporto Pabillao Infante Do Sagres |
USA
???? ???? ???? |
||
![]() V Deep |
April
16 17 18 19 20 22 23 25 26 27 29 30 May 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 11 12 13 15 16 17 19 |
Derby Assembly rooms Newcastle,City Hall Glasgow,Apollo Aberdeen,Capitol Edinburgh,Playhouse Liverpool,Empire Lancaster,Univ London Hammersmith Odeon Norwich,UEA Ipswich,Gaumont Manchester,Apollo* Leeds,Univ Birmingham Odeon Bradford,St Georges Hall* Sheffield,City Hall Leicester,De Montford Hall Oxford,Apollo Brighton,Top Rank Southampton,Gaumont Bristol, Colston Hall Cardiff,Top Rank Stoke,Kings Hall Hemel Hempstead,Pavillion Guilford.Civic Hall Portsmouth,Guildhall St Austell,Cornwall Colisseum |
UK |
|
| BBC
Radio One |
? |
Newcastle | England |
|
| ? |
? |
Kalvøya | Norway |
|
| Oct
25 |
Rissmiller's,
Reseda, CA |
USA |
||
| Dec
4 |
Brunel University, Uxbridge | England |
||
| ? |
1983 |
? |
El Mocambo, Toronto | Canada |
| June 4 10 11 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 Dec 10 12 17 |
|
UK |
||
| 1984 |
Feb 14 15 |
Leicester Univ Bradford Univ |
UK |
|
|
|
1985
|
Feb |
* Tour support by Zerra One |
UK
|
![]() Glastonbury Festival '85 |
June
21 |
Glastonbury
'85 Day 1 also included Aswad, Clannad, The Colour Field, Ian Dury, King, The Pogues, Midnight Oil, Thompson Twins. |
England |
|
| Live
Aid |
July
13 |
Wembley Stadium, London | England |
|
| Scunthorpe
RockFest |
Sept
1 |
Scunthorpe | England |
|
| Self
Aid Benefit |
1986 |
May
17 |
Dublin | Ireland |
Known
Support Bands
Eater (1977)
D.L. Byron
(Surfacing USA)
*Kenny & the Kasuals
**Zerra One (Long Grass UK tour)
*** Sue Saad and The Next
**** The Blasters
The Basics
(USA, Mar 11, 1980)
Zeltinger (Berlin 1980)
Movie Star
Blue Peter
Bernie Torme
33 South (Brent Parlane)
Jim Carrol
~~Protex
The Vipers
Stan Ridgeway (1982 Brunel Uni)
Reggae Regulars (mini UK tour)
The Alarm
Pearl Harbor and the Explosions (NY, March 14h,1980)
Carolyne Mas
D.L.Byron (Surfacing USA '79)
Nightbus
The Atrix
Cheap Thrills
Bits of info
The
Rats played at Theatre 140, Brussels, Belgium, on Sept 15th, year unknown
The Rats were in Poland between 1980-84 (dunno the date) ????
Palladium of Dallas Eaton - date ?
Boomtown
Rats were at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota (date unknown)
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