Here’s What Aussie Boomtown Rats Fans Are Missing Out On

As quickly as it was announced, the reformed Boomtown Rats' scheduled tour of Australia has been pulled due to poor ticket sales, it was announced recently. To add insult to injury to any Rats fan, details of the band's first show back, a warm up for their forthcoming appearance at the Isle Of Wight festival in June, have surfaced online and it's enough to make fans of the band want to weep.

Under the name Ratified, the band performed a full set at the Hurtwood Polo Club on Saturday night with a pretty impressive setlist.

According to this Boomtown Rats fan blog, it looked a little something like this (not in order).

Eva Braun
Clockwork
Neon Heart
She's Gonna Do You In
Having My Picture Taken
Someone's Looking At You
I Don't Like Mondays
Joey's On The Street Again
When The Night Comes
She's So Modern
Howard Hughes
Close As You'll Ever Be
Banana Republic 
Mary of the Fourth Form
Looking After Number One
Rat Trap

Encore:

Elephant's Graveyard
Diamond Smiles

The band's scheduled Australian dates, set to kick off in just over a week's time, were all to be held in rather large arenas around the country and ticket sales seemingly couldn't justify the tour going through.

It was to be their first visit to Australia since 1980, their heyday, where they played rooms like the Palais Theatre in Melbourne and Sydney's Capitol Theatre.