UB40

Friday 7th Oct 2016

location_city O2 Academy Oxford, Oxford

UB40

UB40 are an English Reggae band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham, England. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. They have been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album four times, in 1984 were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group and won an Ivor Novello award in 2003 for International achievement. The band have sold over 100 million records worldwide. The ethnic make-up of the band's line-up is diverse, with musicians of English, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Yemeni parentage.

They released their debut album, "Signing Off" in 1980, followed by: "Present Arms" (1981), "UB44" (1982), "Labour of Love" (1983), "Geffery Morgan" (1984), "Baggariddim" (1985), "Rat in the Kitchen" (1986), "UB40" (1988), "Labour of Love II" (1989), "Promises and Lies" (1993), "Guns in the Ghetto" (1997), "Labour of Love III" (1998), "Cover Up" (2001), "Homegrown" (2003), "Who You Fighting For?" (2005), "TwentyFourSeven" (2008), "Labour of Love IV" (2010), "Getting Over the Storm" (2013), "For the Many" (2019), "Bigga Baggariddim" (2021), plus 2024's: "UB45".