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CAMP pop rockers Scissor Sisters will stage their first tour in three years in celebration of their new album “Nightwork”.

From their early days of playing in tiny nightclubs to their sell-out arena tour in 2007, the eccentric group know how to put on a show to remember.

Tracks such as “Take Your Mama”, “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin” and “Filthy/Gorgeous” saw the band — Jake Shears, Ana Matronic, Babydaddy, Del Marquis and Randy Real — win an army of fans and sell millions of albums across the globe.

The New Yorkers first popped up on British shores in 2003 with the release of “Laura” which was followed by a cover of the Pink Floyd smash “Comfortably Numb”.

Their self-titled debut album became the best selling album of 2004 beating Keane’s “Hopes and Fears” by just 582 copies.

Second album “Ta Dah” was released in 2006 and the band appeared on the bill at the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park, which marked 20 years since the original Live Aid event.

Among the band’s unlikely fans are Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, and less surprisingly, Lady Gaga .

At the 2005 BRIT Awards, the group won awards for International Group, International Breakthrough and International Album — the first time in the awards history that an act won all three International categories.

Catch them live at the Manchester Apollo on Monday.