UB40

Friday 30th Jun 2017

location_city Newcastle Racecourse [Gosforth Park], Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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.