{"id":4858,"date":"2022-11-18T18:49:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T18:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4858"},"modified":"2022-11-18T18:51:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T18:51:04","slug":"freddie-sets-sail-with-ub40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4858","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Sets Sail with UB40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In two weeks, UB40 will launch their 45<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Anniversary Tour with shows in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. Special guests on the trek will be Freddie McGregor and Don Letts, a stalwart of the punk\/reggae movement.<\/p>\n<p>The opening show is scheduled for\u00a0December 2\u00a0at Rock City in Nottingham.\u00a0UB40, best known for the 1983 global hit <strong><em>\u2018Red Red Wine\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, will also do shows in Norwich, Stoke-On-Trent, Liverpool, Belfast, Castlebar, Birmingham, Leeds, and London.<\/p>\n<p>McGregor has had a solid run in the UK this year, performing alongside Bitty McLean on David Rodigan\u2019s sold-out show in London in June. He is looking forward to the gigs with UB40.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was signed to Polydor Records in 1986\/1987, UB40\u2019s video crew did my music videos for <strong><em>\u2018So I&#8217;ll Wait for You\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>\u2018That Girl\/Groovy Situation\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, and <strong><em>\u2018Come to Me\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, so we&#8217;ve known each other for a long time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Letts, who was born in the UK to Jamaican parents, is currently promoting <strong><em>\u2018Rebel Dread\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, a documentary on his life. A filmmaker, he was part of the British punk movement of the 1970s and has co-directed movies including <strong><em>\u2018Dancehall Queen\u2019<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>\u2018One Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-ethnic UB40 formed in 1978 in their hometown of Birmingham, in the British Midlands. Their passion for classic Jamaican music inspired the acclaimed <strong><em>\u2018Labor of Love\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>tribute albums, which contains covers of reggae songs they listened in their youth.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Red Red Wine\u2019<\/em><\/strong> was taken from the first<strong><em> \u2018Labor of Love\u2019 <\/em><\/strong>set. Although it was originally recorded by Neil Diamond, UB40 were more familiar with a reggae version by Jamaican singer Tony Tribe.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><em>\u2018Labor of Love\u2019<\/em><\/strong> albums hear UB40 covering songs by a number of artists including Eric Donaldson, The Melodians, Johnny Osbourne and Trinidadian Lord Creator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two weeks, UB40 will launch their 45th\u00a0Anniversary Tour with shows in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. Special guests on the trek will be Freddie McGregor and Don Letts, a stalwart of the punk\/reggae movement. The opening show is scheduled for\u00a0December 2\u00a0at Rock City in Nottingham.\u00a0UB40, best known for the 1983 global hit \u2018Red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4859,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4858\/revisions\/4859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}