Squeeze launch reunion tour in US

Reformed British pop supergroup Squeeze will launch a comeback tour in America.

The Labelled With Love band announced plans to reunite for a British tour last month, and now they are taking the reunion dates to America, where they scored a handful of hits in the 80s.

The US reunion will not include keyboard player Jools Holland as he already has performance commitments with his own band.

The band, led by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, will perform 12 shows in North America, beginning in Massachusetts on July 31.

The tour will mark the first time Difford and Tilbrook have performed together since 1998.

Cool For Cats singer Difford, who quit Squeeze and checked himself into a rehab facility to combat alcoholism on the eve of a 1999 US tour, said: "I'm really looking forward to doing some shows with Glenn."

The US dates will be the group's first. The UK tour is set to start in November.