Boy George booked for Welsh borders gig

80’s pop icon Boy George will be performing at a nightclub in the Welsh border town of Oswestry next month.

Boy George, who became world famous as the frontman of 80s group Culture Club, has since forged a career as a DJ and will be appearing at Gibsons nightclub on 18 December.The appearance will precede the launch of his new album The Koolwaters 365 and include free CD giveaways. Promoter Paul Headings said the star’s appearance in Oswestry was a coup for the town.

Headings said: “Boy George is not only the biggest act we have ever had at one of our events but to the best of our knowledge he is the biggest act to ever come into Oswestry.”
He added: “He is undoubtedly one of the most famous people on the planet, an icon, a household name and a part of music history.”

Headings explained that the booking came about when Boy George’s management spotted the Facebook group, We Love Gibsons.

Headings said: “They called me shortly after and said that before Boy George goes abroad in the new year to film a reality TV series they are looking to confirm a couple of dates in a few lucky smaller venues and ours was perfect.

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Boy George will participate Big Brother

Boy George has been tipped to appear on the final series of Celebrity Big Brother.
The former Culture Club singer has rejected offers to become a housemate in the past,
But is now ready to join the Channel 4 program for a £200,000 fee, according to the Daily Star.

A source said: "Boy George will be explosive - get ready for Celebrity Big Brother to finish with a bang."

Earlier this year, the star served four months in jail after being convicted of falsely imprisoning a male escort. He later declared that he saw a positive side of his time behind bars, describing it as "four months to be with myself”. Celebrity Big Brother will air for the final time in January. Channel 4 boss Julian Bellamy recently promised that the programme would end on a high.

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Boy George Interview

Boy George Interview
What can you tell me about your new album and songs?
I’m keen to record a track with a New York singer called Coby Koehl, he’s someone I’ve just encountered and he has an amazing jazz and gospel voice. He’s as special as Amy Winehouse for me right now and I think he’s also Jewish so you could say he’s the male Amy! I will soon be releasing a dance compilation of all the work I have done with dance producer Kinky Roland. It will include a few new tracks and some hidden gems. Kinky and I have been working together for about twelve years so it will be quite comprehensive and eclectic. I will be including some of The Twin tracks.
- “Spoiling…” style reminds me some “Taboo” songs. Do you think that play could comeback someday?
Yeah, ‘Spoiling it’ has a real Taboo flavor but obviously because I’m working with Comic David Hoyle some of the lyrics have a darker and more comical edge. David often describes the gay scene as ‘A slow burning suicide cult’ hence my using that line which is probably more Morrissey than Boy George! I guess Taboo will surface again, there is always interest in reviving it but we are in tough economic times so who knows? I would love to see it back on stage, there is talk of a French production which would be interesting!

-What do you think about the new “divas” like Lady Gaga and Lily Allen?
I think they are both producing great pop and they also have a strong sense of style. I prefer them to most of the other female acts around, although no one quite touches Beth Ditto for attitude and style. I like La Roux as well.

- Recently you had tea with Jon. How was that meeting? Could be another collaboration with him like in “After the love”?
No plans for anything beyond being civil and friendly. Jon and I have such a history and we live quite close to each other so it’s nice to catch up from time to time. I’m good friends with Jon now and I prefer it that way. It’s very grown up!
- What do you think about long term relationships? Do you have hope to find a partner? Do you still believe in love?
Love, like life, is something that happens while your busy making other plans. Of course love is the ultimate but physical pleasure is also important so until I encounter the next big love of my life I will keep myself busy, if you know what I mean! I try to be more realistic about things these days rather than having foolish expectations. I will always be a hopeless romantic.
- Have you considered the option to adopt or you don’t see yourself as a father?
No, I think I’ll leave that to the professionals!
- Did you have the chance to meet Michael Jackson or the closest meeting was when you were in Leigh´s costume in London and you run the limousine?
Sadly, that’s the closest I ever got to meeting Michael Jackson, I wish I had met him although I can’t imagine what it would have been like! I always thought he was amazing as a singer and performer, one in a million, a billion. As a kid he was such a beauty and he just tore himself apart. His death is such a tragedy and after all the pain he experienced I just hope he has found peace in the arms of the lord. I think we will be hearing stories and watching dramas unfold for years but at least he won’t have to suffer anymore of the media bullshit!

- Usually when you take distance from your daily life, you can see your life from other side. When you were in prison, could you see the things in a different way and could you have any conclusions?
That’s such a huge question to answer and I can’t see how answering it would serve me in any way. Prison is such a waste of time but I tried to get through it with dignity and I feel I was successful. I’m very good at getting over things, I’ve learnt that I have incredible reserve in times of crisis. The most touching thing was the amount of love and support I received from my family, my friends and from thousands of strangers. I know that many people love me it was quite overwhelming but I no longer take it for granted. Every letter I received in prison made me cry but not out of self-pity. I was so moved by the level of compassion. I’m only interested in focusing on my music and being creative. I don’t have any interest in being a professional criminal or in talking about prison. I will write about it at some point but not for some years!
- Before Taboo, there was a possibility to do a movie about your life. Is this possibly yet?
People who ask to do documentaries or films about me always want to focus on the tragedy and drama. They always promise to talk about my music but it always ends up being a tale of woe. So I don’t think it’s a good option for me. Right now I’m being offered lots of cash to tell my story but I shall just do it through my music!
- In a recent radio interview you said that the temptation to take drugs were mainly in clubs. Have you considered not to DJ anymore to stay clean or it's not necessary?
I have to live my life as normal. I have no interest in chemicals these days, the party is well and truly over as far as drugs are concerned. You have to take each day as it comes and be grateful for each clean day. I will DJ because I love it but there will be no more drugs. EVER!!!

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Rehabilitation of Boy George

Once Boy George had it all – not just the music career, but national treasure status to boot. Heroin dependency followed by cocaine addiction sabotaged all of that, culminating last year in an ugly court case that seemed to defy credibility, which saw George convicted of false imprisonment and led to him spending four months in jail. Here, in his first major interview since his release, he talks to Alan Franks about prison, privacy, love and regret


can’t say I was looking forward to meeting Boy George. Those photos of him two years ago, bloated, brutish and sinister; the arrest for imprisoning a Norwegian man in his London flat, manacled to the wall and to the bed, and beating him; his own jailing for the crime. He had become so unrecognisable that it was hard to believe he had once been the pretty and effeminate singer with the massively popular Eighties band Culture Club. Stars lose their looks, from Elvis Presley to Adam Ant, but there never was such a dramatic morphing as this, all the way across the spectrum from beauty to beast, sweet little thing to nasty piece of work.
For days before our meeting, the negotiations were dogged by the tedious rock’n’roll foreplay that often happens on such occasions. Boy George, said his representatives, did not want to talk if the whole thing was going to be about “my prison hell” (their phrase). He served four months of a 15-month sentence, until May this year, in HMP Edmunds Hill, a category C prison in Suffolk, and then wore an electronic tag for a further three. He is, in a word, out, and back in the public eye, if he was ever truly away. He has product to shift, namely himself and his new moves in the entertainment business – the imminent opening of a no-booze, no-drugs club called Godspeed, the return of his West End show in December and a live performance at the fashionable Proud Camden in London.
When we do meet, it is in the old stables that form part of Proud, a gallery cum music venue, where the matter of his crime and punishment stands like an elephant in the stall. So it’s a surprise when he says: “The thing about Pentonville [where he spent the first six days of his sentence] is that when you go in there, you are going into Scum [the violent 1979 film about life in a borstal]. You’ve got the classic picture of the balconies and the banging cups. I knew what to expect. I was quite hostile.” Hostile to the other prisoners? “Yes. Very hostile. And very grumpy. Not because I felt that way particularly, but because I felt it required that. The situation required me to be a bit feisty, a bit don’t-f***-with-me. I’d heard it all before. I’ve grown up with all that name-calling. I can’t walk down the street without someone calling out, ‘Karma chameleon.’ [Culture Club’s 1983 hit single.] That’s sweet; that doesn’t bother me.”
The 48-year-old singer hasn’t spoken publicly before about his prison experiences, but he is so quick off the mark in doing so now that there’s barely been time to take in the present look of the man. Something’s changed. He was always a chameleon himself, a professional one like his idol David Bowie, but the alteration in him looks far more profound than a shift of image. He cuts a very different figure now to the one on display at his trial and conviction at Snaresbrook Crown Court in December last year. He’s lost weight: he looks firm, and astoundingly solid. It’s more the set of a builder, which his late father was, than of a New Romantic, however middle-aged. He carries himself like someone who reckons he’s useful. But it’s in the face that the big change has happened. That awful frame of raddled flesh has fallen away to unveil the old androgynous expression of the young Boy George: hard little imp. His eyes twinkle with a weird but rather benign mischief, and there are times when he can barely talk for overjoyed laughter.

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Boy George: A hero destroyed by drug 'degradation'

A hero destroyed by drug 'degradation
An unrecognisable Boy George was yesterday jailed for 15 months for imprisoning a rent boy. Andy McSmith witnessed his demiseThe grim, beat-up, overweight old man dressed in black leather, with shaven, tattooed skull, who is beginning a prison sentence for a false imprisonment, could hardly have looked less like the 1980s superstar he used to be.
George O'Dowd, who was a household name a generation ago as Boy George, lead singer of Culture Club, was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in jail for false imprisonment, after he chained and beat a man in a cocaine-fuelled outburst of paranoid fury.
O'Dowd, who is now 47, listened impassively as Judge David Radford explained why he was going against the advice of experts who had recommended a suspended prison sentence and unpaid community work. Although the judge said news that O'Dowd had kicked his cocaine habit was "welcome", he described the singer-turned-DJ's attack on a male escort as "an act of wholly gratuitous violence" which left his victim "shocked, degraded and traumatised".

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