Boyband Damage confirm reunion tour

R&B boyband Damage have confirmed plans for a reunion tour after nine years apart.

The group, who split up in 2001, will play a string of live shows and are considering releasing a Greatest Hits package. However, the band claimed that they currently have no plans for new material.

Consisting of Emma Bunton's boyfriend Jade Jones, Noel Simpson, Coree Richards. Andrez Harriott and Rahsaan J Bromfield, the group released two studio LPs, Forever and Since You've Been Gone. Their biggest hit was a cover of Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight', which reached number three in 1997.

"It was good times when we got together and just sat down talking. There was a lot of laughter," Simpson told BBC 1Xtra.

Jones commented: "It seemed so easy. It's been such a long time since we've done anything but getting back together, it's like riding a bike. As soon as we got back together, everything just slipped into place. We're ready. I don't know if the world's ready for it but we're ready."

The group appeared together earlier today at the launch of this year's Urban Music Awards.