Back In The Old Country Exclusive
Bob Geldof Interview and photos ... granted for use to
bobgeldof.info by kind permission of ShowBizIreland.com The
veteran rock idol played tracks from his latest album Sex,
Age, & Death, which has been described as a confession. "I
can only ever write about that which happens to me or my
response to situations," said Geldof. "So for who's
ever interested, besides myself, this is the latest instalment
of the diary." Bob
Geldof delighted
crowds of transfixed fans at his first Dublin gig in years
when he played Vicar Street on Monday night. The singer and dot.com wizard (who has even advised ShowBizIreland.com in the past) was in Dublin to talk about life and music.
Are
you nervous about going back on the road in Ireland? "I'm
nervous about it as I'm always nervous about playing here.
It's the home team and you know the album did well here and
got good reviews. The gigs have sold well so I guess I'm
surprised and pleased." Are
you looking forward to playing live? "Playing
live is the thing I love doing best. This is a million miles
ahead of anything else I do and is also the thing I think
I am the best at." Where
do you play this time around? "We
are half a dozen shows starting in Waterford, then Wexford,
Cork, Limerick, Dublin and Belfast. We wanted to do Galway
but there was not a place for us to do. What I really want
to do is theatres. I've got this in my head and that's why Vicar
Street is
perfect. It is intimate and the record that I have out now is intensively personal
and I can't imagine people listening to it. I feel it's actually justfor me.
I need that one degree of separation you get in a theatre but I need that." He
went on, "there is a small thing between you and them
and these songs are not really performed. If you listen to
the record sometimes I'm barely singing. We need to be internalized
they are very subjective and they will become objective." How
does it feel listening to something so personal? "Every
time I sing them or hear them it is what is conjured up inside
of me again and that is not very pleasant. So I need to go
inside myself again." You
are 50 now how does it feel? "I
do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a
certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything.
You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been
a long fifty years." When
did you play a tour like this last? "A long time ago but not really since the Rats. This is the most important tour in Ireland since the Rats because I've built up a body of songs, since we split, as a solo artist. I've made more albums solo then we did with the Rats. Bizarrely, they have got better reviews then the Rats did. So expect the crowd for these shows will come from people who have liked this and the last three recordsbut I will also be doing some Rats songs if I can remember them all." |
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