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New Culture Club Music!

January 12, 2026

On a positive note, Culture Club released a new single on Friday, January 9, 2026. It's called Letting Things Go/The Next Thing Will Be Amazing. It's so good.

The Next Thing Will Be Amazing is the first track on the single, and it's a chill techno-ish song. Not what I was expecting, but as someone who loves techno, I like it.

Letting Things Go is the standout on the single, in my opinion. George said he wrote it about Jon, and given how things have been between them recently, I expected the song to be a diss-track, tbh! I was pleasantly surprised to see that it wasn't. It's a beautiful song, and... I mean... these lyrics here say a lot about how George truly feels about Jon:

And you... I feel like I'm 17
Everything touching me in a brand new way
Hate that I love you more today

If there's a ghost of a chance that that ghost can dance
I might take his hand
If there's a ghost of a chance of some sweet romance
I might stick around

People have always said that Jon was George's first real love, the only man George ever truly loved, and I believe it. You don't write/sing something like that about someone you hate.

What Were We Supposed to Believe?

December 27, 2025

Anyone who knows me knows how much I love Culture Club; how much I love Boy George. I first heard them as a kid, probably around 1999 or 2000, thanks to my uncle bringing by a stack of '80s CDs and telling me to check them out and see if I liked any of the music. As I was going through the stack, I laid eyes on Culture Club's 1987 compliation album, This Time: The First Four Years, and I was enamored. I didn't know if George was a guy or a girl at that point, having only seen what he looked like, not hearing any songs yet.

I had dinner and then grabbed the CD and headed upstairs to my room, ready to give it a listen. I sat down on my bed, grabbed my Discman, popped the CD in and pressed play. The first track on the album was Karma Chameleon and I was hooked. I thought George had a lovely voice, and I wanted to know more about him and the band.

So I spent my summer break researching them, researching him as well, and became obsessed. In my early teens, they became my rock, my strength. It was at age 13 I started realizing I might be transgender. George's androgyny gave me the strength to play with my gender appearance -- blending masculine and feminine. I saw myself in the rest of the band as well.

For example, George is Irish. I have Irish ancestry. Jon is Jewish; I am ancestrally Jewish. Mikey is Jamaican and Ethiopian; my great-great grandfather was Jamaican. Roy is an Anglo-Saxon; some of my dad's ancestors were too. So to say I felt at home with Culture Club was an understatement. These four men have felt more like family to me than some of my own relatives.

I am autistic; I've hyperfixated on these men for the past 20+ years of my life. I've been through every up and down since 1999/2000. I've cried at every breakup, every hardship. I cried when George got in trouble in 2007 due to Audun Carlsen -- which he's a subject for a different essay. I cried when George got sentenced to prison over that incident. Cried when Jon had back surgery in 2011, etc. These men -- all four of them -- are my home, my safe place, my family.

So when they fight, when they fall apart… it's not just drama. It's legacy. A beautiful, twisted, flawed legacy that means more to me than they themselves could ever believe, I'm sure.

For those of you who don't know, Culture Club have reunited and broke up often. Usually because of tension between Boy George and Jon Moss, who dated in the 1980s. For those of you who know, you know what I'm talking about.

When the band reunited in 2014, I was happy to hear it, even though news about them was scarce here in my neck of the woods, so I didn't get to follow it closely. A friend of mine did show me the BBC documentary, Culture Club: From Karma to Calamity, which came out in 2014 or 2015. It was a rather negative documentary but had some humorous moments in it. The documentary ended with a bit of a cliffhanger about the future of the band, as George had vocal cord polyps and hemorrhaging, putting his voice in jeopardy.

Now, if you're a t.A.T.u. fan like me, you'll realize the familiarity in that situation as that's exactly what happened to Julia Volkova, causing her voice to become so bad she couldn't even sing above a whisper -- and then she had botched surgery which nearly silenced her permanently. So this happening to George was nothing to brush off. The documentary also ended saying that none of the band were speaking to each other again over having to cancel the tour, which honestly upset me. I mean… was the idea of touring more important than George's voice? Roy said in the documentary he felt George wasn't serious about the reunion anyway, which, ouch. I understand where he's coming from though, as he saw George be a bit flippant about performances in the past for lack of a better word.

In 2021, it was announced that Jon was no longer part of the band. I was shocked, and confused, and let me tell you something, this situation has been nothing shy of a full out mess. Jon sued George, Mikey, and Roy for something like 1.2 million pounds each, citing unfair treatment and that he was kicked out of the band. From everything I've read about this, all sources say that Jon was told by the band's manager, PK, who happens to be George's manager too, to "take a break" and that they would let him know when to come back, and then… apparently, PK never told Jon to come back and moved on without him.

A lot of fans say that Jon has said George kicked him out of the band, but I personally have never seen or heard Jon say this. I understand where Jon comes from, but I don't agree with suing George, Mikey, or Roy, as apparently the lawsuit almost bankrupted George. If anyone should have been sued, it should have been PK -- he's very shady.

Now that we've revisted the circumstances that has led us to the now -- the meat and subject of this essay -- let's talk about it. This year, a new Culture Club documentary came out, called Boy George and Culture Club, and it focuses on the early days of the band, and George and Jon's relationship. I haven't seen it in full yet, just clips here and there, as it hasn't been released in the US at this time. From the clips I've seen, Jon finally admits that yes, he loved George, and… that he still does. He also mentioned a reunion. Keep that in mind.

Also this year, around the time the documentary was released, Culture Club's Spotify went from using a pic of just George, Mikey, and Roy in the banner above the biography, to a picture of George, Jon, Mikey, and Roy. I was shocked, given the lawsuit and George feuding with Jon in the years since the lawsuit.

Then, just a couple of days ago, on Christmas 2025, the official Culture Club social media pages posted a vintage holiday photo of Mikey, Jon, George, and Roy, wishing the fans a happy holiday season, and looking forward to seeing the fans in 2026 -- shocking considering they photoshop Jon out of every photo, including ones used on new merch. All of that happening -- Jon's words in the documentary, the Spotify picture, the official social media posting that photo with all four of them… you can only imagine the emotional buildup this caused for the fans, especially me, who immediately started happy stimming with flappy hands. The possibility of all four of my boys back together? Coexisting? I was excited. For some, it's just a band reunion. For me? It's hope. It's healing. It's the possibility that after everything -- heartbreak, lawsuits, years of silence -- love can still win. That broken things can be mended…

And then it shifted.

George replied to the holiday tweet the official Culture Club social media accounts made, saying "I hate to correct this but Jon is no longer in CC. He tried to bankrupt me in the last couple of years so I hope the Xmas tree falls on his head! Lol!"

All the hope and happiness, shattered, in one whole day. A fan even went far enough to edit the photo and remove Jon from it, which George loved. I sat there shocked, honestly. I love George, so don't think this is shade against him, because it's not, but when I tell you I cried over this, I mean it. Also, I think it's really odd that George claims he doesn't hate Jon, but yet wishes him harm. Sure, it could be a joke (hence the Lol!), but when you're autistic like me and can't tell people's intention or tone online, it seems really bad. Some fans also said that "Well, George is a Gemini, so of course he's saying one thing and then the opposite." Like that makes the context better. The band's official social media hasn't clarified anything, and as of writing this (9:53 PM EST, December 28, 2025) the tweet and picture is still up. Again, no clarification from the band, no apologies from them or whoever is running their social media for the confusion.

As a fan for so many years, the whiplash of going from hope to heartbreak (which sounds like From Luxury to Heartache's alcoholic twin) isn't how I wanted to spend the last weekend of 2025. I've cried on and off all day. I've mourned what could have been.

Honestly, I don't know if it was intentional or not, and I'm not sure how any other fans feel about it, but I personally feel manipulated and gaslit by a PR campaign that hinted at reconciliation.

I can't sit here and be loyal to only George. It's unfair. Culture Club isn't just George. Sure, he's the face of the band, the lead vocalist, but if not for Jon already having business sense and a knowledge of how to get it off the ground and deal with record execs and whatnot, they wouldn't have existed, not to mention that the vast majority of their discography wouldn't exist without Jon either -- most songs are about him (look for a post about that coming soon).

I love George. I love Mikey. I love Roy. I love Jon. I refuse to take sides, and it absolutely angers me when I see fans saying "You can't love George if you love Jon." My heart aches at the fact that we're not going to see the original lineup together; instead we get three out of four members.

And for anyone who wants to say "I bet you didn't feel betrayed when Sam Butcher was lead vocalist in 2006." Um. Yes, I felt the same way I feel now. I was angry and Mikey and Jon for it. But being angry at them doesn't mean I hate them, just like being angry at whoever is running their social media -- and George -- doesn't mean I hate them or George.

This is no longer about band politics, it's about the legacy and dignity of everyone involved. Jon deserves to be in the band. He was there at the beginning, helped build it, inspired the songs… and to see him erased, teased as being back, only to be shut out again? It's cruel. Not just to him -- who Mikey has stated is depressed and misses being in the band, but no longer feels welcomed by fans (let that sink in) -- but to us fans who love and adore all four members. As of late, being a Culture Club fan feels like being in the middle of a divorce where you're being told to pick one parent over the other. I can't do it. I won't do it.

Because of all of this, the fact that Jon is just as important to the band as Mikey, Roy, or George, I cannot take sides in this. I will always love them -- all four of them. I will always love their music, the happiness they give me, and how they've helped me through so much pain in my life. But what I need from them is honesty and respect. I feel like we don't know the whole story. I personally feel the story has been blown out of proportion by PK. I don't think Jon's intention was to "try and destroy" George, like George has stated in the past. All four of them need to sit down publicly -- PK included -- and tell us the truth, leaving no details out, no matter how bad it makes any one of them look. Hell, maybe even use a polygraph test.

Let us fans decide without feeling hurt and manipulated and gaslit.

And George, if you read this… I love you. You're my hero. But you and Jon need to sit down and reconcile. Tomorrow isn't guaranteed. Jon's not getting any younger. I know you wouldn't be okay if something happened to him and you two didn't make peace. Reconcile before it's too late. Let Jon come back. Let us fans stop feeling gaslit and heal the rift within the fandom.

Sometimes I think people just want to be angry.

November 13, 2025

In recent weeks, ever since the trailer of Christmas Karma dropped, there's been a quiet but persistent undercurrent in fan space about Boy George's appearance in the film -- specifically about what looks like scars on the face of his character. Some have speculated that this is somehow a reference to or a dig at Jon, who -- as we all know -- has visible real-life scars from events in his past. We need to shut this narrative down with love, truth, and clarity.

First and foremost: Jon's scars are not punchlines, Easter eggs, or passive-aggressive shade. They are evidence of a life lived, survived, and endured.

If I recall correctly, I remember reading in an interview that the two most prominent scars on Jon's face were from him being attacked by neo-Nazis when he was younger. That is a violent, antisemitic hate crime that has left lasting damage.

He received other smaller scars from incidents including a car accident, walking into a plate glass window, and an incident with his ex-fiancée, Caroline, in which she scratched up his face in a physical assault.

These are not minor anecdotes or "rockstar mishaps" to joke about. These are literal wounds of survival -- physical remnants of racism, chaos, abuse, and pain. Reducing that to a meme or a theory is not just disrespectful -- it's dehumanizing.

Let's be clear: George's character in Christmas Karma is a fictional role. The makeup and prosthetics he wears are part of a narrative performance. The scars appear symbolic, fantasy-inflected, and theatrical. They are not modeled after Jon. They are not calling him out. They are not some veiled insult. George is an actor playing a role. Not everything is about past relationships, and certainly not about past trauma.

And let's be even clearer: George would never mock Jon's scars. He may have loved Jon chaotically, angrily, imperfectly, but that love was real. He has written songs mourning that love. He has publicly reflected on their bond. To suggest he'd make fun of Jon's injuries is to completely ignore the complexity of their history, and the depth of George's character.

This is not about fandom drama. This is about respect.

Respect for Jon as a survivor. Respect for George as an artist. Respect for both, over projection.

Fandom should be compassionate, informed, and rooted in care Because both of these men have lived through hell. And they deserve more than our speculation. They deserve our love.

London Q&A

November 4, 2025

The Culture Club documentary was shown in London either last night or toight. Mikey was the only member of the band there. Not sure exactly where Roy was, and George was at the premiere of his new movie, Christmas Karma, which looks like it's going to be great!

From the things I've read from fans, Mikey was kind, so down-to-earth, and just as sweet as we've always imagined.

He took photos, gave hugs, and spoke with love. He said George sent his love.

And then came the part that hit me like a bass drop to the soul:

Jon Moss wanted to come.

But he didn't.

Not because of logistics or drama.

Because he didn't think the fans would welcome him.

He thought he wouldn't be wanted. That his part in the band's history was too messy, too complicated, too far gone.

Mikey said that Jon texts him, says he's bored, says he misses being in the band.

Let that sink in.

He misses it. He misses them. He misses us.

He's not just looking back. He's longing.

And maybe -- just maybe -- he still hopes.

So Jon, if you're out there, and somehow this message finds its way to you:

We remember. We forgive. And we miss you too.