- Title: MUSIC-BRITAIN/CULTURE CLUB British music icons Culture Club reunite
- Date: 27th October 2014
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (OCTOBER 22, 2014) (REUTERS) **** WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **** CULTURE CLUB POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AT Q AWARDS (SOUNDBITE) (English) CULTURE CLUB SINGER, BOY GEORGE, SAYING: (CONTINUES OVER REPORTER ASKING QUESTION) BOY GEORGE: "Last night? Yeah we played our first, we did a kind of warm up show at Heaven, which is where we did our first ever big show in London, which was in '82." REPORTER ASKING QUESTION: "So how does it feel to be all back together?" BOY GEORGE: "Amazing. It was a great show, it got great reviews as well, so we're happy." BOY GEORGE POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS WITH Q AWARD (SOUNDBITE) (English) CULTURE CLUB SINGER, BOY GEORGE, SAYING: "You know in a funny way, I was thinking in the room, when we first started the band we couldn't get a deal because of the way I looked, and in a way I'm still the biggest queer in the room, nothing's changed. It's not like you can look around and go "there's so many of me", you know most gay pop stars are quite conservative. So you know, I'm kind of more of a drag king than a drag queen any more, but I still feel like I'm doing my own thing and I've always done that, and I suppose in a way the music business is a fantasy business where you can be whatever you want to be and God bless it for that. But I think people are still quite conservative, you know." BOY GEORGE BEING PHOTOGRAPHED
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- Story Text: British music icons Culture Club have reformed, performing a warm up show at the London club Heaven, 32 years after playing hits including "Church of the Poisoned Mind" there for the first time in 1982.
Speaking the day after the warm up gig at the Q Awards, where he was presented with the Q Idol award, singer Boy George - real name George O'Dowd - said the reception had been fantastic.
"Amazing. It was a great show, it got great reviews as well, so we're happy," he told Reuters ahead of the awards.
The gig marked Culture Club's first full performance in 12 years, and comes hot on the heels of fellow New Romantics-era band Spandau Ballet also reforming.
After receiving the award, the singer said that it showed some things had changed, but not everything.
"You know in a funny way, I was thinking in the room, when we first started the band we couldn't get a deal because of the way I looked, and in a way I'm still the biggest queer in the room, nothing's changed. It's not like you can look around and go "there's so many of me", you know most gay pop stars are quite conservative," he said.
"I'm kind of more of a drag king than a drag queen any more, but I still feel like I'm doing my own thing and I've always done that, and I suppose in a way the music business is a fantasy business where you can be whatever you want to be and God bless it for that. But I think people are still quite conservative, you know," he added.
George left Culture Club in the late 1990s, before briefly pursuing a solo career, later becoming a club DJ.
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