{"id":69977,"date":"2023-10-24T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=69977"},"modified":"2023-10-24T13:22:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:22:40","slug":"ub40-distances-self-from-upcoming-concert-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/ub40-distances-self-from-upcoming-concert-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"UB40 distances self from upcoming concert in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legendary British band, UB40 has distanced itself from an upcoming concert dubbed \u201cUB40 Featuring Ali Campbell\u2019 slated to be held on December 21, 2023, at Kololo Airstrip in Kampala.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a statement published on the band\u2019s official website, the claims that they will return for the second and last time are untrue, and that they hope to return to Uganda in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The band further clarified that former vocalist Ali Campbell, who left UB40 over 15 years ago (2008), is slated to perform in Uganda, purporting to feature the original band.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe is touring with the name \u201cUB40 Featuring Ali Campbell\u201d However, there are in fact no members of UB40 in this group and ex-member Ali Campbell is misleading fans and the general public by billing the tour as UB40 and UB40 Featuring Ali Campbell,\u201dthe statement reads in part.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is not a single member of UB40 in Ali Campbell\u2019s backing group \u2013 and none of his band have ever performed with UB40, or contributed to a UB40 record,\u201d the statement reads further.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fifteen years ago, the band staged what entertainment analysts say is the biggest concert in Uganda ever, when they gathered thousands of revelers at Lugogo Cricket Oval\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

KFM understands that 4 out of 5 of the surviving founding members of UB4; Robin Campbell, Jimmy Brown, Earl Falconer, and Norman Hassan have been touring and releasing albums globally despite Ali Campbell\u2019s departure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legendary British band, UB40 has distanced itself from an upcoming concert dubbed \u201cUB40 Featuring Ali Campbell\u2019 slated to be held on December 21, 2023, at Kololo Airstrip in Kampala. According to a statement published on the band\u2019s official website, the claims that they will return for the second and last time are untrue, and that they hope to return to Uganda in the future.\u00a0 The band further clarified that former vocalist Ali Campbell, who left UB40 over 15 years ago (2008), is slated to perform in Uganda, purporting to feature the original band.\u00a0 \u201cHe is touring with the name \u201cUB40 Featuring Ali Campbell\u201d However, there are in fact no members of UB40 in this group and ex-member Ali Campbell is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":69978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"F j, Y g:i a","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"3","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2215],"class_list":["post-69977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-ub40"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}