In an phone interview on Larry Flick's SiriusOutQ show today, Boy George announced a Culture Club reunion tour for later this year.
"Oh absolutely, it is happening, we have planned it. We are having our big launch to announce it in October. We’re going to do a big thing in London and then we are going to come on tour next year, and hopefully at that point I will get my visa back for America. I am really hoping on that. We have people working on that right now and when I come to America I guarantee you...[at]...the first gig I’ll probably burst into tears. It is going to be a very emotional experience.
"We’re going to do a huge worldwide tour and we are going to do a record. I am not sure what kind of record it is going to be right now, but we are talking to Phil Ramone about recording a record with him. And also maybe Mark Ronson writing with us—whatever, there are lots of things...being discussed at the moment. Yeah, that is definitely happening. It is our 30-year anniversary and it would be a kind of shame not to mark that occasion.
In 2008 Boy George was denied a U.S. visa due to his legal problems either in the USA or in London, that wasn't made clear, but apparently the ban remains. Culture Club backup singer Helen Terry has been tweeting about the reunion over the weekend, but so far she hasn't said if she'll be part of the tour.
