Legendary nineties R&B boyband announces biggest UK tour – with tickets set to go on sale this week
A legendary 1990s R&B boy band has announced their biggest UK tour, with tickets expected to go on sale this week.
Damage sold more than 2.6 million records worldwide in their heyday and were known for hits such as Wonderful Tonight, Love Guaranteed, Girlfriend, Love II Love and Let It Be Me.
Jade Jones, Andrez Harriott, Rahsaan Jas and Noel Simpson are currently on their 30IRTY The Anniversary Tour. Coreé Richards left earlier in the group’s career.
The group have revealed that they will return to Britain in December 2025 on the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire stage. Tickets go on sale Friday.
Speaking about the highly anticipated show, the group said on Instagram: ‘Our fans have shown us so much love, and we can’t wait to take to the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire stage next December for our biggest headline show in 10 years, bringing 30 celebrate years. years together.
‘It’s going to be epic! With Kele Le Roc, Manny Norte and many more joining us, it’s a party you won’t want to miss!’
A legendary 1990s R&B boy band has announced their biggest UK tour, with tickets expected to go on sale this week
Damage’s Jade Jones, Andrez Harriott, Rahsaan Jas and Noel Simpson are currently on their 30IRTY The Anniversary Tour. Coreé Richards left earlier in the group’s career
The group have revealed they will return to Britain on the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire stage in December 2025
They went their separate ways in 2001 before reuniting in 2014 for the ITV show The Big Reunion.
When the band broke up, some members left the pop world completely behind and Jade became a chef.
He worked at the five-star Claridge’s hotel in London and previously worked with Gordon Ramsay, who appeared on his television show The F Word.
Jade has also worked at the Connaught hotel in London’s Mayfair and has previously said he wanted to open a restaurant with his Spice Girl wife Emma Bunton, who he married in 2021 after many years together.
He said in 2008: ‘Yes, I want to open a restaurant with Emma. We don’t know when and where yet, but it is something we are seriously looking into.’
He joked that Emma wouldn’t have much say in the kitchen: ‘I don’t let Emma in the kitchen anymore.
‘I heard Gordon Ramsay has two kitchens in his house, so maybe we can do the same. One for me and one for her. Every time she picks up a knife I get terrified.”
Rahsaan is now a photographer and Andrez works in the rehabilitation of young offenders.
Damage sold over 2.6 million records worldwide in their heyday and were known for hits such as Wonderful Tonight, Love Guaranteed, Girlfriend, Love II Love and Let It Be Me (pictured in 1999)
They went their separate ways in 2001 before reuniting in 2014 for the ITV show The Big Reunion (pictured in 2021)
The five original Damage members couldn’t let bygones be bygones after meeting for the first time in four years at The Big Reunion in 2014.
During a tense and heated discussion where the group discussed their many past demons that led to their downfall, they failed to disagree.
After discussing their latest reunion, which saw Coreé get drunk and get into a fight on the highway, the musician admitted, “Honestly, I can’t remember what happened at the end of the show.”
Jade started by opening the can of worms: “So much has been swept under the rug, so much has happened in twenty years.”
The group then discussed their own personal demons and their inability to communicate with Coreé about his wild behavior.
Rahsaan said, “Every time we wanted to talk to you about something, you were quite confrontational, so we never said anything about it.”
Noel said: ‘There is a part of your personality that was very difficult to deal with growing up. I personally saw signs that it was difficult to come to you when there was a problem.”
Rahsaan added: “These debts amount to £100,000 to Jade, you and Coreé. Why didn’t anyone pay the debts, why didn’t anyone answer the letters that came to your homes? I was willing to put everyone out of business.” [sic]
In recent days, frontman Jade Jones has shared a number of videos on social media, showing each member of the band receiving a phone call. When they answer the call, a deep, gravelly voice can be heard saying, “Hello, it’s time” (photo 2014)
Jade Jones married his Spice Girl wife Emma Bunton in 2021 after many years together (pictured last year)
Coreé went on to criticize their bond, admitting that his addictions were his downfall: “We’ve never clicked the same way we clicked with others. There was a very low point with the medication, at one point I was very suicidal.’
In an intimate conversation with his mother, Coreé revealed that his lowest point was when he slept on the beach in Brighton for two weeks, leaving his mother in tears.
Coreé then spoke about the combination of how the public saw him and the dark times he went through with his addiction.
He said: ‘You have to deal with encounters with dealers on the street and you are met by people asking for your autograph who don’t know where I’m going.’
He added that when he was in prison for drink-driving, he found the reality difficult to deal with: “I went to prison and could see my school from the window and thought, how did I get from there came here. None of them came to visit me, none of them sent me a letter.’
Bringing things back to the present, Coreé admitted that he thought it was all about the money: “We left a record deal behind, we basically cut off our foot because we left that, I thought we were doing gigs just to pay off debts.’
The band has yet to announce what their current reunion entails and whether they will tour.