UB40 To Play 'Signing Off' 30th Anniversary UK Tour & Tickets
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Written by Jon Stickler
Reggae act UB40 are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their debut seminal album ‘Signing Off’ this year. Announcing an extensive list of UK tour dates, the group will perform the whole album live during the tour of intimate venues.
Hailed as a superb album upon its release in August 1980, ‘Signing Off’ has earned iconic status as one of the greatest reggae albums ever released by a British band.
Taking its name from the unemployment form, ‘Signing Off’ was warmly welcomed by many music fans, including the followers of punk and the 2-Tone movement. Its reggae and dub sound detailed the difficult UK life and times of the early 1980’s, as Britain moved into the Thatcher years.
Hitting the Number Two spot in the Top Ten, ‘Signing Off’ eventually stayed on the charts for a total of 71 weeks. It has since been awarded Platinum status and brought us timeless UB40 classics such as ‘King/Food For Thought’.
The album’s cover-art of the replica bright yellow unemployment card was how the Birmingham band took their name. The yellow card is the ‘Unemployment Benefit, Form 40’.
UB40 will take their special album show to the road this autumn, kicking-off a massive UK tour in Liverpool on October 25th. The tour rolls though a number of intimate venues before finishing in Southampton on November 19th.
UB40 will play the following UK dates:
October 2010
25h Philharmonic, Liverpool
26th Symphony Hall, Birmingham
27th Wolverhampton Civic Hall
29th Troxy, London
30th Shepherds Bush Empire, London
31st Brighton Dome
November 2010
2nd City Hall, Newcastle
3rd Usher Hall, Edinburgh
4th Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
7th Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
8th Guildhall, Preston
10th Cliffs Pavillion, Southend
11th St David’s Hall, Cardiff
15th De Mont Fort Hall, Leicester
16th Corn Exchange, Cambridge
18th Regent, Ipswich
19th Guildhall, Southampton
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