The Boomtown Rats announce plans to release first new album for 30 years

Bob Geldof has confirmed that the band have recorded 26 new tracks for album Mega
Reformed: The Boomtown Rats are releasing an album of new material
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Jennifer Ruby6 July 2017
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Bob Geldof has announced that the Boomtown Rats are set to release their first album of new material for 30 years.

The veteran rocker revealed that the band has reformed and has already recorded 26 new tracks for forthcoming album, titled Mega.

This will be the first time that the band have recorded and released new music since their first studio album, In the Long Grass, in 1984.

“We’ve done 26 tracks. We’re mixing them now, I’ve done the vocals on them. We’re getting really excited, we think they’re great,” he told The Mirror.

“We did a lot of songs. We have a situation now where a song comes out and a day later it’s dead.”

He added: “What we’re probably going to do is issue a series of EPs, I’m going to call the album ‘Mega’.

“I’ll release four tracks and then a couple of months later another four tracks, and then another four, which allows us to space out the music but also do different things.”

The band, known for hit song I Don’t Like Mondays, split in the mid-1980s but briefly reformed in 2013 for a reunion tour.

“Playing again with the Rats and doing those great songs again will be exciting afresh. We were an amazing band and I just feel it's the right time to re-Rat, to go back to Boomtown for a visit,” Geldof said at the time.

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