The Boomtown Rats are to reunite for the Isle of Wight
Festival - 26 years after the band last performed together.
Fronted by Bob
Geldof, the band have been added to the Sunday line-up of this year's event at
Seaclose Park in Newport.
They are to
play the main stage in a UK festival exclusive.
Mr Geldof said:
"I've always fancied playing the Isle of Wight Festival ever since I
hitched there in the good/bad days when I was a kid."
'Classic catalogue'
The Boomtown
Rats will join a line-up also featuring The Killers and Bon Jovi, who have
already been announced as headliners for the first major festival of the
summer, in June.
John Giddings,
the festival's promoter, said: "It's great that they have chosen the Isle
of Wight Festival as their reunion. Our audience will love them, their
catalogue is classic."
After forming
in 1975 The Boomtown Rats played early UK shows with The Ramones and Talking
Heads.
They were one
of the biggest bands of the late 70s and 80s with a string of top 10 hits and
platinum albums, Brit Awards, Ivor Novellos and Grammy Awards.
The band made
history as the first Irish band to have a UK no 1 hit with Rat Trap and scored
a top single in 32 Countries with I Don't Like Mondays.
They notched up
six chart-topping albums before splitting up in 1986.
The group are
joined on the festival's line-up by their contemporaries Blondie, along with
more up-and-coming acts like Jake Bugg and Emeli Sande.
The festival
runs from 13-16 June, at Seaclose Park in Newport.
Last year's
event was marred by heavy rain, which turned many car parks into mud baths with
some festival-goers forced to sleep in their cars as traffic became gridlocked.
Source: BBC
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