One of the biggest pop acts of the 1980s, Culture Club, has announced plans to tour Australia for the first time in 15 years in   June.
The tour will take in just four cities - Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane - but the schedule appears to leave space for extra shows to be added. 
The white-soul pop four-piece won the music world's attention in 1982 with global hit Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, with the charismatic and talented Boy George out front. That won Culture Club the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1983.
The London group, so named because it comprised a gay Irishman (George) on vocals, a Jewish drummer (Jon Moss), a black Briton (Mikey Craig) on bass, and a white Anglo-Saxon (Roy Hay) on keyboards and guitars, went on to release a succession of hit albums and singles over a phenomenally successful four-year period. In that time it sold around 50 million records. The biggest of those were Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, Karma Chameleon, Time (Clock of the Heart) and Church of the Poison Mind. 
Crippled by star Boy George's addictions to cocaine and heroin, the band split in 1986 but reunited to tour several times, most recently in 2014. Culture Club will be bringing its original line-up on tour.
Dannii Minogue will support the band in Melbourne, Bjorn Again will play in Sydney and Brisbane while Kids in the Kitchen will play at all four shows.
CULTURE CLUB TOUR DATES
Wednesday   June 8, HBF Stadium, Perth
 Friday   June 10, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne.
 Saturday   June 11,Hordern Pavillion, Sydney
 Tuesday   June 14, Riverstage, Brisbane
Tickets on sale: 9am, Thursday   April 14 through ticketmaster.com.au