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Essential Feature

UB40 announce uk
tour dates for 2015
due to demand
Following their sold-out UK tour of
2014, reggae stars UB40 have announced
nineteen- date UK tour for May and June
2015 due to demand.

The Brummie legends are currently in the
middle of the second leg of their ‘Getting
Over The Storm UK Tour’, which has seen
UK’s most successful reggae band play
over forty UK shows to over 100,000 fans.
UB40’s 2015 tour dates, start on Monday
4th and ends on Saturday, 6th June,
playing in towns and cities they haven’t
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visited for many years.
Fellow UB40 founding member and
principal songwriter Jimmy Brown
comments, “The atmosphere in the
venues on our current tour has been
amazing. You can feel it from the stage
and it lifts the band to a different level.
You rarely get that in an arena. We’re
never happier than when we are on stage;
we are a working band, it’s what we do.”
Naming
themselves
after
the
unemployment benefit form, UB40
formed in 1978, before releasing their
debut album ‘Signing Off’ in August 1980
– considered by many to be one of the
greatest reggae albums ever released by a
British band. It was the start of a career
that has since seen the band have over
forty UK Top 40 hit singles and achieve
sales of over 100 million records, making
UB40 one of the most successful British
groups of all- time. The band’s latest
Top 30 album ‘Getting Over The Storm’
was awarded BBC Radio 2’s ‘Album Of
The Week’ accolade and received 5-star
reviews from the UK’s music press on its
release in September 2013.
You can see UB40 on Fri, May 8th 2015 at
the Pyramid and Parr Hall in Warrington.
We have a pair of tickets to give away.
Visit
http://essentialguidemagazine.
co.uk/ub40 and follow the instructions.

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