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Culture Club at Thunder Valley Outdoor Amphitheater | Lincoln, California | 8/19/2016 (Concert Review + Photos)

August 22, 2016 by Jason DeBord 1 Comment

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“So, basically Culture Club makes happy sad music.  If you’re a Gemini, you don’t need that explained.  If you’re a Libra, I can’t help you.  Hands up for the Geminis!  You’ve got to use two hands if you’re a Gemini, because there’s always two of you.  What’s that saying?  ‘Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic, and so am I.’  That’s the Gemini mantra.  So we do these happy sad songs.  Dancy rhythms, melancholy sounds, mixed together…”  Boy George explaining Culture Club in a way that only he could…  an interesting insight into the band and the man who proudly stood out in front of it (as well standing for many other things) throughout the first half of the 1980s.  All in preface to the song, “Move Away”, which was the lead single to their fourth album, From Luxury To Heartache, an album title which nicely dovetails into what he was explaining, as well as illustrative of that early trajectory of the band in it’s first life…  It all ended far too early when they broke up in 1986 following the release of that album and that lead single, which would be their final entry into the U.S. Top 40 charts.  The light that burns twice as bright last half the time and all that…  But life is a funny thing.  Fast forward thirty years (!), and there on that stage at Thunder Valley’s Outdoor Amphitheater in front of thousands of jubilant fans on Friday night was Boy George and the original members of Culture Club – Roy Hay, Mikey Craig and Jon Moss – and I can’t imagine them being any more happy or in sync with one another musically and with their live performance.  And, it would seem, the impossible journey each took to get them there made it all the more sublime.  Joyfully playing those now classic songs of happy sad music.  A potent chemical reaction of letting soul and reggae out to play with all manner of other music genres, bending and twisting and dancing with new wave, country, pop, funk, rock, R&B, and even church music, to create something altogether unique but unified in that wicked sort of Gemini manner…  The genius of Boy George, and his bravery in always being uniquely himself and forging new paths for others to follow.  Definitely one of the best tours of 2016, one of the most important New Wave bands (who helped push those loose boundaries within that broad musical movement), and a band fronted by one of the most interesting figures in pop culture in modern times. [Read more…]

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