Two hours with Bob Geldof on the presidency, the Rats and inspiration: ‘It could be about my dad, my sister, or Paula. It could be about Peaches’

Two hours with Bob Geldof on the presidency, the Rats and inspiration: ‘It could be about my dad, my sister, or Paula. It could be about Peaches’

Celebrating 50 years of the band, Geldof says he’s ‘happy’

Bob Geldof is too busy on the Boomtown promo trail to throw his hat into the presidential ring. Photo: Mark Cowne

‘Is that you, Egan?” Bob Geldof says, putting on the voice of a belligerent teacher he might have encountered during his unhappy days at Blackrock College, when he and I meet via Zoom. “F**king hell! You are going seriously grey and bald, Egan!”

With the distinguished salt-and-pepper hair, he looks younger than his 73 years.