2B40
The Ultimate Tribute to UB40
Brilliant UB40 tribute duo from Birmingham. 2B40 perform all the hits and more from UB40.
They don't just sing they play guitars, keyboards
and percussion as part of the show.
The real beauty of this tribute is that 2B40 can perform in smaller venues as well as large ones
and still provide the sound quality of an eight piece
UB40 tribute band.
Both guys have been into UB40 since the early 80's
when Signing Off was released and provide a true
representation of the sound of UB40. .
Great for a Party, Wedding, Corporate Event, or
just down the local Pub or Club.
You won't be dissapointed if you book 2B40
but you will be if you don't
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2B40 formed in February of 2009 when both Daz and Will were perfoming in Full circle. On the reaction from crowds when they performed UB40 songs they decided to put a UB40 Tribute Band together. Because demand was so great they decided to keep it a two piece outfit with the outlook to play in smaller venues. all the backing tracks have been recorded by both Daz and Will at "The Valley Studios" with attention to detail the order of the day.
Having performed a few low key gigs for close friends and family and a Christening party for Emma and Mark for their beautiful daughter Suga, 2B40 are ready to hit stages all over the UK. Bookings are flooding in already and it looks like the lads are going to be very busy. UB40 by 2B40 are very exited and are already putting a showcase together with super Soul singer Johnny Green and Fantastic Reggae singer Barry G. Watch This Space for dates and venues.
Contact Phone Daz on 07807651893
We'd like to thank 2b40 for helping to make our wedding reception so memorable!We've lost count of the number of guests who told us how much they LOVED the duo. The few people who were not up on the dance floor stayed long into the evening just to listen to the music. Everyone was beyond impressed by the range of songs and talent (vocals and instruments) of both of you on stage. Daz's voice is spookily very much like Ali Campbells.
We would like to thank you especially for being so accommodating - by learning a new song for our first dance, surprising our parents with a dedication and, despite playing longer than planned, performing THREE “encores” at the end of the night! Everything was spot on! It was a pleasure dealing with you in the course of preparing for our wedding, and we look forward to the next 2B40 event. Cheers!,
I Got You Babe
"By far, the greatest band I've ever heard play at a wedding. Fortunately enough, it was ours. The people danced the whole night through because of the entertaining, lively and energetic music they performed. They sounded so extraordinary that we, at times, lost focus of whether or not a CD was playing. They were accommodating, sensitive, helpful and insightful. They catered to our every need. Clearly, I can go on for days. I just want to thank you all for making the biggest day in our lives that much more amazing!"Kind regards,
2B40 upcoming gigs
July
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Fri 30th July
The 3 Tuns
32 Watling Street, Fazeley,
Tamworth, Staffordshire B78 3QN
01827 281 620
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Sat 31st July
Redstone Caravan Park,
The Rough, Stourport On Severn
Worcestershire DY13 0LD
01299 871 711
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August
Sat 6th August
The Thatched Tavern,
12 High St, Honeybourne,
Evesham WR11 7PQ
01386 830 454
Sat 14th Northfield Royal British Legion
Fri 20th Longbridge Social Club
Thu 26th The Fox Tavern
Titford Lane
Rowley Regis
B65 0PT
0121 559 1291
Admission £3
Sun 29th The Station Hotel, Telford
Mon 30th The Highbury Inn, Dads Lane, Stirchley
September
Sat 18th Stechford Social Club, Birmingham
Fri 24th The Cock Inn, 75 Dudly Rd, Rowley Regis, B65 8JY
0121 559 4199
October
Sat 2nd Chelmsley Wood Conservative Club
Sun 3rd Tyseley WMC, 573 Warwick Rd, Tyseley,
Birmingham B11 2EX, 0121 706 0377
Thu 14th The Golden Diamond, 47 Stoney St, Sutton In Ashford
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 4GH
01623 456 617
Fri 22nd Cradley Heath Social Club
Upper High St, B64 5HU
November
Sat 27th Yardley Wood Social Club,
118 School Rd, Yardley Wood, Birmingham, B14 4JR
December
Fri 31st Bournville Working Mens Social Club
Maryvale Road, Bournville
2B40
Set List
Present Arms
If It Happens again
Don’t Slow Down
Food For Thought
Baby Come Back
Bring Me Your Cup
Just Another Girl
Tell Me Is It True
Higher Ground
My Way Of Thinking
Please Don’t Make Me Cry
Watchdogs
Love Is All Is Alright
Wedding Day
Maybe Tomorrow
Red Red Wine
Come Back Darling
The Way You Do The Things you Do
Don’t Break My Heart
Holy Holy
Don’t Let It Pass You By
The Train Is Coming
King
The Earth Dies Screaming
I Got You Babe
Cherry Oh Baby
Homely Girl
Here I Am Baby
Johnny Too Bad
Rat In Me Kitchen
One In Ten
Cant Help Falling In Love
Kingston Town
UB40 In-depth Biography
Named after a British unemployment benefit form, pop-reggae band UB40 was formed in a welfare line in 1978, and its multiracial lineup reflected the working-class community its members came from. The band consolidated its street credibility with political topics appealing to dissatisfied youth and got a boost from fans of the waning 2-Tone ska-revival movement. Brothers Robin (lead guitar) and Ali Campbell (guitar, lead vocals) formed the centerpiece of the group, which also included bassist Earl Falconer, keyboardist Mickey Virtue, saxophonist Brian Travers, drummer Jim Brown, percussionist Norman Hassan, and toaster Terence "Astro" Wilson. The band purchased its first instruments with compensation money Ali Campbell received after a bar fight, even though few of the members knew how to play them. But by the end of the year, the group was invited to tour with the Pretenders. Their "Food For Thought" single reached the U.K. Top Ten in 1980, beginning a long streak of chart appearances. Signing Off and Present Arms were big sellers in Britain, if not America, and addressed the political issues of the day in songs like "One in Ten," a Top Ten hit blasting Margaret Thatcher for the country's unemployment rate. 1983's Labour of Love, an album of reggae cover songs, gave the group its first chart album in America and first number one U.K. hit with Neil Diamond's "Red Red Wine." Several albums of original material sold well in the U.K., but only respectably in the U.S., where the group's biggest hit was a Top 30 cover of Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe" featuring the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde.
In 1988, the group performed "Red Red Wine" at a Nelson Mandela tribute concert, and a Phoenix radio station trotted the single out for a second go-round. Listener response was far more enthusiastic, and "Red Red Wine" re-entered the charts and went all the way to the top. Finally having hit on a way to conquer the lucrative American market, UB40 responded with another covers album, Labour of Love II, which produced Top Ten singles with versions of the Temptations' "The Way You Do the Things You Do" and Al Green's "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)." The group scored a huge hit in America with Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling In Love," which was initially featured in the Sharon Stone film Sliver and spent seven weeks at number one. By this time, UB40 had largely abandoned its trademark left-wing politics and was concentrating more on perfecting its reggae oldies covers than its original material; however, the gimmick has thus far resulted in huge sales figures in both the U.S. and U.K., with Promises and Lies reaching number six and number one, respectively. In the spring of 1998, UB40 released Presents the Dancehall Album in the UK. A third Labour of Love collection followed a year later. In fall 2002, UB40 bounced back with yet another collection. The Fathers of Reggae, which appeared on Virgin in November, highlighted the band's roots in reggae in a selection of classics. In 2003, the band scored a major hit in the U.K. when their version of the spirtual "Swing Low" with the multi-cultural choir United Colours of Sound became the official anthem for the 2003 English Rugby Team. The song was featured on the 2003 album Homegrown. As their 2005 album Who You Fighting For? was being released an announcment was made that the band would be working with Birmingham's Repertory Theatre to stage a new musical in Spring of 2006. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide
Discography
Albums
1985 Little Baggariddim
1987 Live in Moscow
1988 UB40
1994 Labour of Love, Volumes I and II (re-issue)
1995 The Best of UB40 - Volume Two
1998 UB40 Present the Dancehall Album
2002 UB40 Present the Fathers of Reggae2003Labour of Love, Volumes I, II and III - Platinum Collection (re-issue)
2005 The Best Of UB40, Volumes 1 & 2
2007 Live at Montreux 2002
2007 Dub Sessions(sold at UB40 concerts and for download only)
Labour Of Love reached number fifteen in the U.S. in 1988 with the re-popularization of "Red Red Wine".
Labour Of Love III was released in the U.S. in 1999.
"Who You Fighting For" was released in the U.S. in 2006 and nominated for a Grammy Award (Reggae Category).
"Dub Sessions" charted at No.1 in the UK Reggae Chart.
"Twentyfourseven" charted at No.1 in the UK Reggae Chart.
Singles
1980 "My Way of Thinking" / "I Think It's Going to Rain Today"
1980 "The Earth Dies Screaming" / "Dream a Lie"
1981 "Don't Let It Pass You By" / "Don't Slow Down"
1982 "I Won't Close My Eyes"
1982 "Love Is All Is All Right"
1982 "So Here I Am"
1983 "I've Got Mine"
1984 "Cherry Oh Baby"
1984 "If It Happens Again"
1984 "Riddle Me"
1985 "I'm Not Fooled" / "The Pillow"
1985 "Don't Break My Heart"
1986 "Sing Our Own Song"
1986 "All I Want to Do"
1987 "Rat in mi Kitchen"
1987 "Watchdogs"
1987 "Maybe Tomorrow"
1988 "Where Did I Go Wrong"
1988 "Red Red Wine" (U.S. re-issue)
1988 "Come out to Play"
1989 "I Would Do for You"
1990 "Wear You to the Ball"
1990 "Impossible Love"
1990 "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)"
1991 "Groovin'
1993 "Bring Me Your Cup"
1994 "C'est La Vie"
1994 "Reggae Music"
1995 "Until My Dying Day"
1997 "Tell Me Is It True"
1997 "Always There"
1998 "Come Back Darling"
1998 "Holly Holy"
1999 "The Train Is Coming"
2001" Since I Met You Lady" (with Lady Saw) / "Sparkle of My Eyes" 2002" Cover Up"
2003" Swing Low"
2006" Who You Fighting For" (download only)
2008" Lost & Found" / "Dance Until The Morning Light" (with Maxi Priest)
Definitions of reggae on the Web:
- popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn - Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggae - A form of music originating in Jamaica and associated with Rastafarianism, featuring a heavy bass line, percussive rhythm guitar on the offbeat ...
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reggae - Popular music of Jamaican origin having elements of Calypso, soul and rock and characterized by a strongly accentuated offbeat.
www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0776052.html - Jamaican style of music with a strongly accented subsidiary beat.
simplythebest.net/music/glossary/music_glossary_r.html - ( in Marley, Bob ) ...the tough West Kingston ghetto streets. Marley’s maternal grandfather was not just a prosperous farmer but also a bush doctor adept at the mysticism-steeped herbal healing that guaranteed respect in Jamaica’s remote hill country. ...
www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/299747/history-of-Jamaica - Type of music that came from the Caribbean region, and has a strong beat. Many reggae tunes have a fast beat.
www.eduplace.com/kids/scienceglossary/ - a slow tempo rhythmic style that originated in Jamaica
www.cgsmusic.net/Classical%20Guitar%20Sheet%20Music%20Dictionary/Classical%20Guitar%20Dictionary%20R.htm - Jamaican popular music style characterized by offbeat rhythms and chanted vocals over a strong bass part; often associated with the Christian religious movement Rastafarianism.
www.wwnorton.com/classical/glossary/r.htm - Indigenous popular music of Jamaica developed in the late 1950’s to early 1960’s that may have found its inspiration in the emulation of American rock and roll and rhythm and blues of the same era. ...
www.adad.org.uk/metadot/index.pl - West Indian music with a heavy beat, often utilised by dub poets.
www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp - Traditionally West Indian, played on the offbeat with a heavy bass line and Rastafarian themes.
www.fisicx.com/quickreference/art/music_glossary.htm - music form developed in Jamaica around the late 1960s. Reggae is a slower version of its precursors mento, ska and rocksteady and is characterized by it's rhythm guitar "skank" on the upbeats and prominent bass lines. Bob Marley is its most famous practitioner.
www.jumpupsteelband.com/6.html - Back to Top What is reggae? Reggae is a genre of music that originated from Ska and DUB in the country of Jamaica. Just like Ska, it has a focus on the second and fourth beat, but unlike DUB it has verses and choirs in it. Reggae has evolved into a number of different forms. ...
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