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# Boy George: Concorde 2: Review
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/boy-george-concorde-2-live-review/
- Published: 2013-11-12T16:32:33.000Z
- Updated: 2013-11-13T13:39:47.000Z
- Description: Promoting the release of his first album of original material in 18 years, Boy George alongside a nine-piece band dazzled with a sprinkling of classic hits and tracks from This Is What I Do at Concorde 2 in Brighton.
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Arts, Music, Reviews

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**Promoting the release of his first album** of original material in 18 years, **Boy George** alongside a nine-piece band dazzled with a sprinkling of classic hits and tracks from *This Is What I Do* at **Concorde 2** in Brighton last night, November 11.

Sporting a trademark red top hat and a dash of glitter sans lippy – *“I’m not wearing lipstick, because I always think lipstick with a beard looks a bit too Kenny Everett.”* – the now slim-line soul singer walked out to huge ardour; seemingly delighted to be back.

The show saw the new album played in its entirety which displayed George’s admirable confidence. *Play Me*, a kind of dub-step number with squalls of brass accompanying George’s now huskier, deeper vocals, was lilting, before it segued into the prophetic *Feel The Vibrations*.

This Caribbean twist continued when George dropped the sweet reggae of *Everything I Own* (his number 1 solo hit), an obligatory (and encouraged) sing-along number, before the Culture Club staple *Church of the Poison Mind* swooped fans up into a frenzy, with the blue eyed Motown-inspired call-and-response of the backing vocals thickening the already hefty chorus.

After re-verb issues – *“I sound like a toilet”* – George slipped into a bluesier *Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?*, his raspier vocal underpinning **Reuben Fowler**‘s blaring trumpet. While this re-imagining was inspired and played to George’s new Marianne Faithfull-esque timbre, too much rum punch was a bad thing for *Karma Chameleon*, which nearly buckled under swathes of reggae.

Nevertheless, the encores traversed George’s proud eclecticism and were a confident declaration that The Boy is back: we travelled from Jamaica to Nashville for *It’s Easy* – a country song evoking the most broken-hearted of Patsy Clines; were swept up in a cyclonic performance of T-Rex’s *Get It On* (featuring brass, electric guitar, biting vocals and the kitchen sink); shook our keys to the hare hare krishna of *Bow Down Mister*; and wiped away mascara tears over *Victims*, a chilling end to a blazing night!