Bob Geldof will take his reformed Boomtown Rats on a UK tour in October and November.
The band will play the Isle of Wight Festival on June 16 - some 26 years after their last show together - before releasing a new Greatest Hits collection in August.
'Back to Boomtown: Classic Rats' will hit shelves on August 5, with the band's tour kicking off at Bournemouth's O2 Academy on October 22. Further dates are slated for Cambridge, Norwich, Bristol, London, Nottingham, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle and Birmingham.
"Age, curiosity and cash prompted our interest in getting together again," Geldof said. "Age and cash are self evident. Curiosity about each other and what we did together in the '70s and '80s. Curiosity about those songs that seem to have endured and the music and band that powered them. When I sang again Rat Trap, Looking After No 1, Mondays, Someone's Looking At You, Banana Republic, She's So Modern etc there was nothing I would change.
"On re-hearing, on re-singing them I understood that they could have been written yesterday. The circumstances within which they were written hadn't changed. Tragically and unfortunately. I could sing those words with utter conviction. This isn't nostalgia, rather perhaps a time to be angry again."
Tue 22nd October 2013 - BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy Bournemouth
Wed 23rd October 2013 - CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
Fri 25th October 2013 - NORWICH UEA
Sat 26th October 2013 - LONDON Roundhouse
Mon 28th October 2013 - BRISTOL O2 Academy Bristol
Tue 29th October 2013 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
Thu 31st October 2013 - LEEDS O2 Academy Leeds
Fri 1st November 2013 - MANCHESTER Academy
Sun 3rd November 2013 - GLASGOW O2 Academy Glasgow
Mon 4th November 2013 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE O2 Academy Newcastle
Wed 6th November 2013 - BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy Birmingham
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