The Rats don't ask permission. They just claim. And Exeter was theirs from the moment they emerged from behind the curtains and ripped into "Like Clockwork". At 100% full-force power.
By the time the Boomtown Rats launched into "Close As You'll Ever Be", Bob Geldof threw his tambourine to the ground, announcing the song as old~school rock 'n' roll. "Close As You'll Ever Be" and the entire set are, in fact, everything Rock 'n' Roll was ever intended to be. Real. Raw. Authentic. And 100% Unapologetic. You turn to the Rats to FEEL that energy. If you were before them Saturday night, you were INFUSED with it.
Can Bob Geldof sit down and talk with you a moment?
The Rats manage to pull off all of this full~force, unapologetic Rock 'n' Roll on a larger-than-life scale while never once being above you. It's so real and immediately understood and felt within you because the entire thing is a conversation ~ a loud, ground-shaking one most of the time but with its quieter moments, too, always straight from their souls to yours. The reason you're there is you identify with every word Bob Geldof sings and/or every note being played ~ you connect with it deeply ~ and in this live experience it becomes a full and meaningful conversation between you and the band. The Rats come out there with the intention of everything above but how the magic really happens - how it really comes to life - is when you pour back to them everything they're giving to you. And that's exactly what the entire crowd at Let's Rock Exeter did on Saturday night. When the Boomtown Rats turned their backs to the audience just for that brief second of getting their end~of~the~show group shot, the smiles on the faces of the crowd were as wide and as ecstatic as the Rats' own faces in these incredible photographs!
Are you ready to experience it all again or for the first time?! Appropriately, the next place you can see the Rats live is the land of The Roaring Red Dragon! 🏴 WALES! (Let's Rock Wales, Swansea, 20 July, 2024) I feel the ground shaking now. Wales...Are You Ready?
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Rock and roll