Sir Bob Geldof has announced he is bringing his legendary band the Boomtown Rats to play a concert in Dundee.
The resurrected 70s/80s band, which split in 1986 and reformed earlier this year, are appearing at Fat Sam’s Live! on Saturday November 9.
Tickets will cost £25 and go on sale next week from Groucho’s Record Store in Dundee and through the Fat Sam’s website.
The band are also playing the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen the following night. Just two weeks ago, Bob, Pete Briquette, Simon Crowe and Garry Roberts played a storming set at the Isle of Wight Festival.
Some 26 years since their final show in Dublin, the band have also announced they will tour the UK in the autumn and release a new album.
The band said: “There has been an amazing positive reaction from fans and the media alike. Many thanks.”
A spokesman for DM Concerts, who are promoting the Dundee show, said: “We are very proud to tell you that we are putting on the Boomtown Rats in Dundee.”
The band’s new hits album is scheduled for release on August 5.
Entitled Back to Boomtown: Classic Rats’ Hits, it will feature all of the band’s celebrated chart songs including Lookin After No 1, Like Clockwork, She’s So Modern, I Don’t Like Mondays and Rat Trap songs BobGeldof says have an immediacy and a message that is as pertinent now as when they were written.
There will also be two new songs recorded by the newly reformed Rats.
Full tour details are available at www.boomtownrats.co.uk.