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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gem Nation, everyone's favorite eighties band is back.

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Speaker 1: This is brilliant and national Greatest Hits tour around Australia.

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Speaker 1: Culture Club considered one of the most influential bands of

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Speaker 1: all time, selling out arenas for decades. To tell us

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Speaker 1: about the new tour and what we can expect, boy

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Speaker 1: George joins us, now, well, hello.

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Speaker 2: Well, hello, well, I think we're better now, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean? Sometimes go and see bands are really miserable.

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Speaker 2: We're not that band.

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Speaker 3: But you don't want to see what we do. You

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Speaker 3: don't want see a miserable band. We do, no, you

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Speaker 3: do like.

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Speaker 2: We've had miserable moments. We have moments of misery, but

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Speaker 2: we are I think nowadays, you know, because the audiences

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Speaker 2: are so warm and friendly. You know, we've been around

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Speaker 2: the wild so there's not a there's a lot of

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Speaker 2: love out there, so we don't have to really have

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Speaker 2: a bad show. There's no bad show.

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Speaker 4: Do you feel that the way music's going in the moment,

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Speaker 4: we're in the real era of rap and hip hop

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Speaker 4: and people are turning back to the great pop and

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Speaker 4: rock songs of the eighties in nineties. I find lately

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Speaker 4: that the band like yourselves, reforming, retouring is just getting

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Speaker 4: more and more successful, like it's becoming more and more

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Speaker 4: of a thing.

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Speaker 2: I think good writing is always I mean, listen, I

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Speaker 2: love you know, obviously songs of what motivate me. I

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Speaker 2: don't really when I was a teenager, I've got the

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Speaker 2: test with bands like Bowie and whatever bands t Rex.

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Speaker 2: But as an older person, I'm kind of like, if

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Speaker 2: it's a good song, I don't really care whether it's

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Speaker 2: old or new, but it's got to be good. And

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Speaker 2: a lot of the writing at the moment it's quite lazy,

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Speaker 2: isn't it.

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Speaker 3: So really Yeah, that mumble rap I just don't understand.

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Speaker 3: And you know it's not just.

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Speaker 2: Rap, not rap, I mean rap is you know, there's

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Speaker 2: I think with all music there's good and they're dads.

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Speaker 1: The fact that you guys are performing again together is

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Speaker 1: quite extraordinary, considering how tumultuous your earlier years must have been.

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Speaker 1: You held an amazing record with the Beatles, the first

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Speaker 1: band since the Beatles to have three songs from your

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Speaker 1: debut album reached the top ten of the top one hundred.

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Speaker 1: I mean, from the outsider's point of view, it seems

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Speaker 1: like overnight success. But that's what a hot house, what

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Speaker 1: a what a time of drama. The fact that you've

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Speaker 1: survived all these using can perform again now is a miracle.

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Speaker 2: Well, we are one man down, so we're not you know,

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Speaker 2: we there's three of us. Now, we got rid of

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Speaker 2: one of them. You kill your actors, that's my policy.

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Speaker 2: And basically we get on better now because we appreciate

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Speaker 2: what we're doing, you know what I mean, we're sort

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Speaker 2: of I don't know. It's kind of great to see

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Speaker 2: what you laugh, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: You know, sure, but it's not the first time a

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Speaker 4: drama's been gotten rid of as well.

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Speaker 2: Exactly. They're always the first to go. You know, they're

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Speaker 2: so badly dressed. Now that you all can see them.

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Speaker 1: Now that you're all together again, do you go, Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's right, you're the slovenly one.

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Speaker 3: That's right, you're the one. Is always a life you

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Speaker 3: to go back to your old habits.

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Speaker 2: We definitely have learned to communicate a little bit better,

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Speaker 2: but there are always those moments, you know, when things,

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Speaker 2: you know, spiral out of control. But there was a

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Speaker 2: lot of laughter when we kick off. Now everyone's like,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, don't do that. And you know, maybe not.

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Speaker 4: Because there's a great thing I've seen on Instagram and

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Speaker 4: it's just a band playing in a pub and the

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Speaker 4: lead singer has to go the drama and the drummer

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Speaker 4: just stands up and pushes. They have this fight on

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Speaker 4: stage is the greatest thing I've ever seen. It's sort

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Speaker 4: of semi gone viral.

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Speaker 2: I saw a clip. I saw a clip the other

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Speaker 2: day of Bowie. I've never seen Bowie loose in temper.

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Speaker 2: There was a clip of Bowie streaming at his bands,

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Speaker 2: you know, during the nineteen eighty fourth to I've never

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Speaker 2: seen anything like it. And I was like, good on

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Speaker 2: your right, yeah, because traumas. Again it was a drama.

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Speaker 3: But and what budges are they playing too fast or

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Speaker 3: too slow? What is it?

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Speaker 2: I think what it is when you're a singer, you know,

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Speaker 2: you let things wind you up, and sometimes nothing's happening

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Speaker 2: at all. That's no problem, that's fine, and it's always

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Speaker 2: you know, it's it's more about learning to just not

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Speaker 2: do that. You know, it's quite easy to do that,

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Speaker 2: and it's quite good not to intet for everyone.

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Speaker 4: I read an article once you were having dinner with

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Speaker 4: David Bowie and a fan came up and asked for

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Speaker 4: an autograph, and you were happy to oblige, and Bowie said,

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Speaker 4: don't sign that is that true?

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Speaker 2: No, what happened was we're having dinner in this restaurant

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Speaker 2: in New York and this girl came up. He goes,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, you guys, you come and sing Happy

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Speaker 2: birthday to me and my boyfriend. And I was about

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Speaker 2: to get up, and David looked to me and he went,

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Speaker 2: that won't be appropriate, and I thought he was right.

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Speaker 2: Really I would have done it, though, because I'm back

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Speaker 2: to kind of person, although maybe I should have made

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Speaker 2: them come to ask. I don't know. You know, Bowie though,

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Speaker 2: is kind of a legend. You can't ask him to

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Speaker 2: sing happy birthday?

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Speaker 3: Sign? Like, what a shame of people?

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Speaker 2: The people?

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Speaker 1: Are you finding that?

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Speaker 3: The people? I get weirder? Or are they okay?

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Speaker 2: I think when you're weird, people are weird, do you

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Speaker 2: know what I mean? This kind of the universe kind

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Speaker 2: of reflects back how you feel about yourself. And I

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Speaker 2: think people are generally quite nice. Now they sort of

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Speaker 2: know me, you know what I mean? People talk to

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Speaker 2: me like they know me. It's right strange, So my friends,

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Speaker 2: I'll be out and people say, if you know that person?

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Speaker 2: I said, no, I've never met before in my life.

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Speaker 2: You know. People come up to me and they talk

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Speaker 2: to me like they know me, which looks quite nice.

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Speaker 3: You know, well, mate, you missed my birthday. So I

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Speaker 3: would have come up and asked for a song now

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Speaker 3: that we know that you're up for it, I would

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Speaker 3: have done a drum a drum accompaniment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. These days, I'm like, you know, people

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Speaker 2: always ask me to talk to their wives and cabs

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Speaker 2: and I get asked to two all sorts of things,

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Speaker 2: and I never ever do it. In about I'm always like, yeah, sure,

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Speaker 2: you know, always, But that's.

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Speaker 4: What That's why you're so endearing, George. That's why we

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Speaker 4: love you. That's what's about. That's why people are coming

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Speaker 4: back to see you. And of course tickets are on

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Speaker 4: so out right now through ticket to Catch a Watch

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Speaker 4: club boy.

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Speaker 3: George. It's always great to talk to you at the show.

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Speaker 2: Definitely pre t shirts all round.

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Speaker 1: Now We're be careful.

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Speaker 2: Have you liked Joanne? Joanne