'WON'T BE POSSIBLE' 
with Odd Mob & Goodboys May 9th! 
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Well where to start exactly, i have had a love of music since the tender age of 15. Where i used to listen and record pete tong's famous essential mixes onto a cassette player, a wealth of music genre's from dj's such as pete tong, paul oakenfold, danny rampling, sasha, scott bond, john digweed, paul van dyk...and many more too many to list...! It was these days where i really got a thirst for the music and scene...The following year my dad bought me my first pay of decks, belt drive soundlab's i remember them well...with a little 2 channel mixer years away from pioneer cdj's. It was these turntables i learnt on, and started buying records from local shops...buying vinyls from sets played by Sasha, Oakey and the rest! It was the 4th of December 1999 the year i went to my first super club Gatecrasher...that night was special for me, the sound was so underground and quite frankly not sure how i got past the door. Walking in that club was like another work, very futuristic, cyber kids were big, people dressed up and were there as a family...That night i listened to Ashley Casselle warm up with Scott bond finishing the night...It was the dark tribal progressive music that caught my attention.. that was me for 2 years, had loads of monumental nights. Anyway this was the basis for my taste now, i have gone from liking trance, to progressive to tribal house, to deep house to retro and now i find myself listening to deep tech melodic war my sounds. I have played in some infamous nights around the North East two night of which were in middlesborough at the Arena, where i warmed up for Solarstone. I have played in other clubs in darlington and the surrounding areas. I guess this site will hopefully have my sounds listened to, and from this year on wards i am prepared to take to the producing side also... I really hope to make something out of my life long passion...so far i have listened to 14 years of music and i am certainly not going to stop yet!!!! music is a way of life :)

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 The story of UB40, and how this group of young friends from Birmingham transcended their working-class origins to become the world’s most successful reggae band is not the stuff of fairytales as might be imagined. The group’s led a charmed life in many respects it’s true, but it’s been a long haul since the days they’d meet up in the bars and clubs around Moseley, and some of them had to scrape by on less than £8 a week unemployment benefit. The choice was simple if you’d left school early. You could either work in one of the local factories, like Robin Campbell did, or scuffle along aimlessly whilst waiting for something else to happen.

By the summer of 1978, something else did happen, and the nucleus of UB40 began rehearsing in a local basement. Robin’s younger brother Ali, Earl Falconer, Brian Travers and James Brown all knew each other from Moseley School of Art, whilst Norman Hassan had been a friend of Ali’s since school. Initially, they thought of themselves as a "jazz-dub-reggae" band, but by the time Robin was persuaded to join and they’d recruited Michael Virtue and Astro – who’d learnt his craft with Birmingham sound-system Duke Alloy – the group had already aligned themselves to left-wing political ideals and forged their own identity, separate from the many punk and Two Tone outfits around at that time. The group had nailed their colours to the mast by naming themselves after an unemployment benefit form. Their political convictions hadn’t been gleaned second hand either, but cemented in place whilst attending marches protesting against the National Front, or rallies organised by Rock Against Racism.

By the time Chrissie Hynde invited them to tour with the Pretenders during the summer of 1980 and their debut single "King b/w Food For Thought" had sailed into the UK Top 5, all the essential elements of UB40 were already in place. Their line-up will remain unchanged for almost thirty years, and they will continue playing a mix of original material and inspired choice of reggae covers in a style that’s instantly accessible with its bright melodies and sweeping horn arrangements – one that’s allied to a formidable rhythm section, capable of holding its own with anything from Jamaica.

UB40’s first album was released the following September, on Graduate Records. Their deal allowed them more creative freedom than if they had signed with a major label. The cover artwork memorably duplicated an unemployment benefit card, with the title "Signing Off" rubber-stamped in red, but it was the music that quickly worked its way into the affections of a young, mainly student crowd with its knowing lyrics, solid reggae rhythms and dubby, instrumental passages, offset by warm horn solos and Jamaican style scatting. There was nothing else like it at the time. As a multi-cultural band from Birmingham, UB40 weren’t drawn into trying to sound "authentic," and there was considerably more depth to their music than that of many punk and 2Tone bands. "I’m a British subject, not proud of it, whilst I carry the burden of shame," they sang on one of the tracks. Accepting the truth of their own situation amidst a sea of other reggae songs proclaiming black heritage gave us a valuable insight into where UB40 were coming from. They were unafraid to stand up and be counted, and British audiences instinctively loved them for it. "Signing Off" duly went to No. 2 in the UK and stayed on the nation’s album charts for 72 weeks.

On September 2nd, 2013, UB40 released their latest album ‘Getting Over The Storm’ on Universal/Virgin Records.

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