Culture Club Live At The Royal Albert Hall 20th Anniversary Concert

Live at the Royal Albert Hall finds Culture Club celebrating their 20th anniversary with an infectious and expansive grandeur all while basking in the love of adoring fans The show actually starts with a great joke on the audience Boy George looking not a day over 20 glides onstage in his oncetrademark derby and beaded hair extensions delivering a warm and welcome vocal on Do You Really Want to Hurt Me The startled crowd soon realises hes an impersonator The real fortysomething George ODowd looking a lot less androgynous and a tad thicker than in his New Romantic days smiles selfdeprecatingly and launches into a pleasing set of white soul Cold Shoulder Miss Me Blind stark gospel Thats the Way stirring ragarock Bow Down Mister and even a classic a lovely cover of Bowies Starman complete with audience participation and muscular guitar by Roy Hay Its a fine show all around