Riding high on a new wave of popularity as a judge on The Voice this year, Boy George is taking the original Culture Club line-up on the road for a national tour that includes Newcastle.
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Boy George is endearing himself to a new generation of Australian fans, having been voted the audience’s favourite coach on The Voice.
Boy George is in fine voice and Roy Hay, Jon Moss and Mikey Craig will be joined on stage by percussionists, keyboard players, backing singers and a horn section.
Culture Club were phenomenally successful in the ’80s, scoring three top 10 US hits from their debut album, Kissing to Be Clever, and becoming the first group to hit that milestone since The Beatles
The album went platinum in the US and Culture Club went on to sell more than 100 million singles and 50 million albums worldwide, with top 10 hits in every country – Karma Chameleon, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, I'll Tumble 4 Ya, The War Song and Time (Clock of the Heart), to name a few.
Culture Club were the first multi-racial band with an openly gay front man, Boy George, and their second album Colour By Numbers sold more than 10 million copies. It sits at number 96 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Best Albums of the 1980s.
Karma Chameleon was the best-selling single of 1983 in the UK and one of the top 20 best-selling singles worldwide of the 1980s.
In November 2014 the band released More Than Silence, their first single together since 1999.
The group’s return to the touring circuit in 2016 saw Culture Club sell out some of the world’s most iconic venues including the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and London’s Wembley Arena.
Special guests on the upcoming tour will be Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey, who will play all their hits live for the first time in 27 years – think Hold Me Now, Doctor Doctor, You Take Me Up and Love On Your Side.
Also on the tour are Eurogliders, featuring Grace Knight on vocals and Bernie Lynch on guitar and vocals. They took the charts by storm in the 1980s with singles Heaven (Must Be There), We Will Together, The City of Soul and Can’t Wait to See You.
