Tue, Apr 18th 2023 12:15 pm

Part of ‘The Letting It Go Show’ 2023 tour

√ General on-sale begins Friday at LiveNation.com

Live Nation Press Release

Music icons Boy George and Culture Club announced their 2023 tour, “The Letting It Go Show,” featuring very special guests Howard Jones and Berlin across all dates. The prolific band will be performing all the hits, including “Do You Really Want To Hurt Me,” “Karma Chameleon” and “Church of the Poisoned Mind,” right up to their current releases.

Produced by Live Nation, the 25-city run comes fresh on the heels of Boy George and Culture Club wrapping up their sold-out Vegas shows. “The Letting It Go Show” kicks off in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday, July 13, and includes a stop at Darien Lake Amphitheater in Darien Center on Saturday, July 29.

Tickets will be available starting with a Citi presale beginning Wednesday, April 19. Additional presales will run throughout the week, ahead of the general on-sale beginning at 10 a.m. Friday, April 21, at livenation.com.

Citi is the official card of the Culture Club tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 19, through the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details, visit www.citientertainment.com. 

More About Culture Club

Live Nation shared this bio, written by Stephen Thomas Erlewine // Rovi:

Few new wave groups were as popular as Culture Club. During the early ’80s, the group racked up seven straight Top 10 hits in the U.K. and six Top 10 singles in the U.S. with their light, infectious pop-soul. Though their music was radio-ready, what brought the band stardom was Boy George, the group’s charismatic, cross-dressing lead singer. George dressed in flamboyant dresses and wore heavy makeup, creating a disarmingly androgynous appearance that created a sensation on early MTV. George also had a biting wit and frequently came up with cutting quips that won Culture Club heavy media exposure in both America and Britain.

By the time Culture Club’s second album, “Colour by Numbers,” was released in the fall of 1983, the band was the most popular pop/rock group in America and England. “Karma Chameleon” became a No. 1 hit on both sides of the Atlantic, while the album reached No. 1 in the U.K. and No. 2 in the U.S. Throughout 1984, the group racked up hits, with “It’s a Miracle” and “Miss Me Blind” reaching the Top 10. In the fall, the group returned with its third album, “Waking Up with the House on Fire.” While “The War Song” reached No. 2 in the U.K., the album was a disappointment in America, stalling at Platinum; its predecessor went quadruple-Platinum.

Following a brief tour in February, Culture Club went on hiatus for 1985, with Craig, Moss and Hay pursuing extracurricular musical projects in the interim. Though their comeback single, “Move Away,” became a hit in April, its accompanying album, “From Luxury to Heartache,” stayed on the charts for only a few months.

George confirmed the group’s disbandment in the spring of 1987, and he began a solo career later that year. While his solo career produced several dance hits in Europe, he didn’t land an American hit until 1992, when his cover of Dave Berry’s “The Crying Game” was featured in the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name. In 1995, George published his autobiography, “Take It Like a Man.” Culture Club reunited in 1998, issuing the two-disc set “VH1 Storytellers/Greatest Hits.”

A new album, “Don’t Mind If I Do,” appeared in 1999, reaching 64 on the U.K. charts; it did not receive an American release. Culture Club next celebrated their 20th Anniversary with a 2002 concert at Royal Albert Hall.

Culture Club reunited in 2014 for a tour and the band also began work on a new album with producer Youth. The group scheduled the release of an album called “Tribes” in 2015, but the record never materialized. Instead, the recordings provided the foundation for “Life,” the 2018 album that marked Culture Club’s first new album in nearly 20 years.

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More About Howard Jones

2023 marks the 40-year anniversary of the release of Howard Jones’ “New Song,” the ebullient hit that kicked off his career. Jones’ most recent album is “DIALOGUE,” which was released in September of last year. “DIALOGUE” is the third album in a trilogy of electronic releases from Jones with multimedia project “ENGAGE” released in 2015 and studio album “TRANSFORM” out in 2019. “DIALOGUE” garnered serious coverage in outlets such as Spin and Stereogum. Last summer’s headlining tour with his full band/electronic set-up, featuring special guest alternative music legend Midge, received rave reviews.

An electronic music pioneer, Jones has been a constant presence on the international touring scene for the past four decades, playing live in a number of different configurations including intimate solo shows and dates with his full high-tech band set-up.

He first burst upon the contemporary music scene in 1983, with his very English songwriting and pioneering synthesizers with “New Song”. His first two albums, “Human’s Lib” and “Dream Into Action,” were worldwide hits. “Human’s Lib” reached No. 1 in 1984 in the U.K. and featured the hits “New Song” and “What Is Love?” In 1985, Jones released the follow-up, “Dream Into Action,” which quickly became a Top 10 Platinum album in the U.S., and featured the smashes “Things Can Only Get Better,” “Life In One Day,” “No One Is To Blame” and “Like To Get To Know You Well.” 

Jones has sold nearly 10 million albums worldwide and continues to make new music and tour the world. He has performed on NBC’s top-rated morning and nighttime shows respectively, “Today” and “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” His ubiquitous hits can be heard in such high-profile television series and films such as “Stranger Things,” “Breaking Bad,” “Watchmen,” “The Carrie Diaries”, “Superstore” and “Bumblebee.”

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More About Berlin

Berlin will forever be recognized as the American progenitor of electro-pop artistry with sensually appealing lyrics. Few bands emerging from the era of Berlin have achieved as far-reaching and long-lasting an impact and, rarely, such a timeless array of musical grooves.

The Los Angeles-based band made its first national impression with the provocative single “Sex (I’m A…)” from the Platinum-selling debut EP “Pleasure Victim” in 1982. “The Metro” and “No More Words” were also chart-toppers, but it was the unforgettable, intimate, and strikingly beautiful love song “Take My Breath Away” that took the band to another level. The ballad’s defining role in the Tom Cruise film “Top Gun” helped solidify Berlin’s everlasting place in American pop-culture. The song was a No. 1 international hit and received both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for “Best Original Song” in 1986.

Berlin’s discography has yielded 12 Gold and Platinum album awards. The band – founded by Terri Nunn, bassist John Crawford, and keyboard player David Diamond – made its everlasting place in American pop-culture. Nunn’s ongoing influence earned her the No. 11 spot on VH1.com’s “100 Greatest Women in Rock,” while, as an actress, she played leading roles in films including “Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold” with Kim Basinger, and “Thank God It’s Friday” with Jeff Goldblum and Debra Winger. Along with comedienne Wendy Liebman, Nunn also previously hosted the critically acclaimed radio show “Unbound with Terri Nunn” on 88.5 FM KCSN Los Angeles.

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