Culture Club

Plus special guest English Beat

After more than 12 years Culture Club, the first alternative super group of the 80s with the original line-up performs live. The internationally acclaimed, chart topping and multi-platinum selling Boy George and Culture Club will perform at the Statesman Skyline Theater at the Long Center on August 2.  They will be performing all of their greatest hits and new material.

There is not a country in the world that doesn’t know the names of Boy George and Culture Club. Grammy Award winners Culture Club sold in excess of 100 million singles and over 50 million albums, and were one of the biggest pop bands of the 1980s. They achieved seven straight Top 10 hits in the UK, nine Top 10 singles in the USA and nine Top 20 singles in Australia. They had No 1 singles in over a dozen countries and multi-platinum album sales across the world and were first group since The Beatles to have three Top Ten hits in America from a debut album. They were also the first group in music history to have an album certified diamond in Canada. The band consisted of Mikey Craig (bass guitar), Roy Hay (guitar and keyboards), Jon Moss (drums and percussion) and flamboyant front man Boy George (lead vocals.)

In 1982 Culture Club released Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, which catapulted into the charts. The song went to No. 1 in the UK and became an international smash hit, peaking at No. 1 in over a dozen countries.

This achievement was quickly compounded with the follow-up single Time (Clock of the Heart), which became another massive hit in the US and UK, and I'll Tumble 4 Ya repeating that huge success in the US and in Canada. Kissing to Be Clever sold over two million copies in the USA and another three million worldwide, when it was first released, and went on to be one of the biggest selling albums worldwide propelling Culture Club to international stardom.

Currently, the band is working with legendary producer Youth (The Verve, Killing Joke, The Cult, Crowded House, Primal Scream) on their highly anticipated new release expected this fall. 

Event Dates

  • Tuesday, Aug 02 Statesman Skyline Theater at the Long Center