On he bounded with his band, all decked out in B-Rude clothes, almost as if he was returning for the second half of a show rather than starting from scratch. No need to warm up the audience, we were ready and waiting to be entertained and to sing along to songs we all knew well. The set was broadly the same as at his October gig but he'd decided to kick off with the slow songs and build up pace, including songs like 'Do You Really Want To Hurt Me' and 'Victims' right up front rather than later in the show.
The songs were mainly from Culture Club but he included his 'spiritual' section with 'This Little Light Of Mine' and 'Down By The Riverside' and a couple of acoustic breaks that included 'If I Could Fly', 'Unfinished Business' and 'Summertime'. New songs, 'Vote For Love' and 'American Heart' went down very well as did stonking versions of 'Get It On' and 'Starman'. My favourites were an acoustic 'Generations Of Love', a mad electric 'Church Of the Poison Mind' (with earsplitted roars from Lizzie Dean), a euphoric 'Yes We Can' and finishing with a massive 'Bow Down Mister' with flowers thrown into the audience (Hare Rama, Hare Krishna).
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