Whoever does not know Boy George has not experienced the 80s – this is how one could ironically paraphrase a sentence by the singer Falco (“Whoever can remember the 80s has not experienced them”) about the decade of keyboard and New Romantic pop music. Because the Englishman, with his band Culture Club and songs like “Do you really want to hurt me” or “Karma Chameleon,” represented the sound of this decade. Moreover, due to his homosexuality and his outfits that fluctuated between androgyny and femininity, he became an icon of the queer movement early on. And all of this has remained true to this day, as Boy George has never stopped dedicating himself to music.

Currently, he and the Culture Club are on the “Kissing To Be Clever & Colour By Numbers” tour – a best-of celebration that also makes a stop in the Ruhr area and promises a lot, a lot of nostalgia and pure pop.