Simon Crowe

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Simon Crowe

| image = Simon Crowe Drummer.jpg

| caption =

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| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist

| birth_name = Simon Crowe

| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|45|1998|04|28}}

| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland

| genre = {{hlist|New wave|punk|pop rock}}

| occupation = Drummer

| years_active = 1975–present

| label = {{hlist|Mulligan|Ensign|Mercury|Columbia}}

| current_member_of = The Boomtown Rats

| associated_acts = The Boomtown Rats
The Velcro Flies
Gung~Ho
Jiggerypipery

}}

Simon Crowe (born {{birth based on age as of date|45|1998|04|28|noage=y}}, Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish musician, best known as the drummer and backing vocalist of the Irish new wave band

The Boomtown Rats.{{cite news|last=Webster|first=Nick|title=Live Lounge hosts Boomtown rat founders Garry Roberts and Simon Crowe|url=http://www.clickliverpool.com/culture/culture/122356-live-lounge-hosts-boomtown-rat-founders-garry-roberts-and-simon-crowe.html|accessdate=9 September 2010|newspaper=Click Liverpool|date=16 Jan 2009 | archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20111006213549/http://www.clickliverpool.com/culture/culture/122356-live-lounge-hosts-boomtown-rat-founders-garry-roberts-and-simon-crowe.html | archivedate = 6 October 2011 }}

The Boomtown Rats, originally known as the "Nightlife Thugs",{{cite book|last=Buckley|first=Peter|title=The rough guide to rock |year=2003|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-84353-105-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&dq=%22Simon+Crowe%22+boomtown+thugs&pg=PT133|accessdate=9 September 2010|page=126}} was formed in 1975.{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p3745/biography | title = Boomtown Rats - Biography | first = William |last = Ruhlmann }} The band had eighteen hit singles in the UK in the 1970s and early 1980s. After the Boomtown Rats broke up, in 1986, Crowe lived in Devon for several years.{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/geldof-under-fire-from-former-rat/26191537.html|title=Geldof under fire from former Rat|date=27 April 1998|website=Irish Independent | first = Martha | last = Kearns }} While in Devon, he played with the Exeter-based folk group Jiggerypipery.{{cite web|url =https://www.livingtradition.co.uk/webrevs/jigcd01.htm | website = livingtradition.co.uk | title = Jiggerypipery review | first = Peter | last = Fairbairn | accessdate = 26 October 2024 }}

Crowe was also part of The Velcro Flies{{cite news|title=Where did our eighties pop idols get to?; Sunday News tracks down the stars who just 'disappeared'. | url = http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Where+did+our+eighties+pop+idols+get+to%3F;+Sunday+News+tracks+down+the...-a060651449|accessdate=9 September 2010|newspaper=Sunday Mirror|date=November 22, 1998|author=Amanda Doherty|author2=Caoimhe Young}} (with ex-Boomtown Rat Garry Roberts) and Gung~Ho (with ex-Boomtown Rat Johnny Fingers). He subsequently formed a group, The Rats, with Roberts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/leisure/latest/3563619.interview-simon-crowe-boomtown-rats/|title=Interview: Simon Crowe of The Boomtown Rats|date=1 August 2008|website=lancashiretelegraph.co.uk | first = Caroline |last = Taylor }} As of 2009, The Rats featured Roberts on guitar and Crowe on drums, with Pete Briquette on bass and Darren Beale on lead guitar.{{fact|date=October 2024}} Bob Geldof did not (re)join the group as, according to Crowe, he was "doing his own thing".

The Boomtown Rats reformed, with an original line-up that included Geldof, Briquette, Roberts and Crowe, in 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://pennyblackmusic.co.uk/Home/Details?id=21188 |title=Interview with Simon Crowe | website = pennyblackmusic.co.uk |date=25 May 2013 | first = Paul | last = Waller }}