culture club to reunite

Culture Club will reunite in 2012. Boy George confirmed it in an interview yesterday morning, promising a new album and a "huge worldwide tour".
"We are getting back together," Boy George, real name George O'Dowd.  "Next year," Boy George said. "This year I'm doing the Here and Now tour ... on my own," but "it's kind of a precursor for what I'm doing with Culture Club in 2012. We'll be doing a proper huge worldwide tour. And a new album."
Next year will mark Culture Club's 30th anniversary, and 10 years since the band's last reunion. While two of the group's original members, Mikey Craig and Jon Moss, announced a 2006 tour, Boy George refused to join them – and the performances were shelved. But for that brief period, Culture Club seemed poised to get a new singer. "To me, the mark of a good band is when someone else can't successfully sing their songs, and [someone else] can't sing my songs," George said at the time. "They're my gay love songs about my boyfriend."
Parts of Boy George's new solo album, Ordinary Alien, were written during a four-month stay in jail. "I kind of use my writing like a diary, so I write about things that are very personal to me, things that I've experienced, things that have affected me and that I feel strongly about," he said. "I've surprised myself really with my resilience. Yes, prison did happen, but it feels so long ago now."