Culture Club

Culture Club is not touring at his time. Culture Club were a British pop group that formed in the early 1980s. The Culture Club band consisted of Boy George (lead vocals), Mikey Craig (bass guitar), Roy Hay (guitar and keyboards), and Jon Moss (drums and percussion). From the time of the Culture Club’s first album release in 1982 to its dissolution in 1986, Culture Club had amassed hits in several countries around the world, including ten Top Forty hits in the US, most of which went Top Ten. Culture Club went on to have subsequent hits in the UK during a reunion period of 1998–2002, where they scored a #4 single and a #25 single. Culture Club have sold approximately 22 million albums worldwide The Culture Club first tried to reunite in 1989 after many requests from Tony Gordon, the group’s former manager and Boy George’s current manager at that time. Boy George agreed to try some songs with the band again, resulting in recording sessions that went quite well and producing more than a dozen songs that are still unreleased to this day. Boy George, however, was more excited about his future projects like his record label, More Protein, and his dance-oriented music he was looking to release. The reunion would end up being cancelled. In 1998,Boy  George and Jon put their differences aside and the band actually reunited to do a reunion tour, kicking off with a performance on VH1 Storytellers. The tour was a major success. A compilation album based around the Storytellers performance was released, and went platinum in UK, which included new songs such as “I Just Wanna Be Loved”, which hit UK #4. Their 1999 studio album Don’t Mind If I Do peaked at #64 in the UK. It included moderate UK hits in “Your Kisses Are Charity” (UK #25) and “Cold Shoulder” (UK #43). Culture Club went on to tour, then reunited again for a 20th anniversary concert in 2002 at the Royal Albert Hall. This performance was released on DVD the following year. Culture Club then became inactive again, largely due to Boy George’s successful DJ career. In 2006, two original members of Culture Club (Craig and Moss), tried to launch a new tour with another lead singer. (George and Roy Hay had declined to tour). Early that year, the band’s record company placed an ad for a lead singer to “…take part in a 2007 World Tour and TV Series.” The new singer, Sam Butcher was selected because of his own personality, “not a Boy George lookalike.” Boy George expressed his displeasure in the press, even though Culture Club’s MySpace page says otherwise. A tour was announced for December 2006 in the UK, but was postponed to give the new line-up time to finish recording their album. Without official press statements, in 2007, Culture Club band manager Tony Gordon, said that the project was “on hold”, while drummer Jon Moss stated that the project was shelved. Source and more information: Wikipedia