I’ve regarded Bob Geldof as an attention seeking pompous arse since Live Aid. Still he never fails to disappoint.
Bob Geldof will return his Freedom of the City of Dublin on Monday in protest at the fact that Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi also holds the accolade.
The political activist and Boomtown Rats frontman said he would be a “hypocrite” to share honours with “one who has become at best an accomplice to murder and a handmaiden to genocide”.
One for Pseud’s Corner. Sharing an accolade with someone else does not confer anything from one to the other. This little display of petulance has nothing to do with Aung San Suu Kyi and everything to do with Bob Geldof getting his face in the papers again with his virtue signalling.
Arsehole!
His antics on the Thames in the run-up to the Brexit vote summed him up admirably – a loudmouthed, ignorant yob who thinks (mistakenly) that what he says is important.
I thought his band was crap back in the ’80s – pretentious and overblown – and he hasn’t changed since. Still crap, still pretentious and still overblown. I couldn’t give a monkey’s left bollock what he does with his ‘Freedom of Dublin’, and nor, I would imagine, would most people. I can’t understand why the media give him the oxygen of publicity, nonentity that he is.
Does anyone give a flying f*ck about anything this one-hit wonder has to say about anything?
I certainly don’t.
He clearly thinks that we should.
Who?
So presumably he’ll have a hissy fit about his great buddy Bono, who’s got caught up with the Paradise Papers.
Seems the chap used a Maltese front to buy a £5.1 million shopping mall in Lithuania!
Interesting that the next post is about separating the artist from the art, or in that specific case the artist’s wife because it must somehow be her fault that her husband is a sex pest. I actually quite liked the Boomtown Rats, “pretentious and overblown” says nisakiman, as a lover of prog rock I’ve heard that one a few times. I don’t like Mondays is one of the few punk songs that has stood the test of time and actually has more in common with prog than punk really. Since Bono is also being mentioned I have to say that I never liked U2. Rock music for people who don’t like rock music basically.
I Don’t like Mondays was the only one I liked. We had several BTR albums bought in the hope that the rest of their stuff lived up to it. It didn’t…
So should I give up inhabiting Planet Earth because this little runt shares the honour of (quite unjustifiably IMHO) breathing the same air?
The BTR song Rat Trap was a Springsteen wannabe attempt.