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christopherw	UBfucking40 posted on: 9/13/2006 10:29:39 PM Ungh, nuff said. I'm gonna get flamed for this, I know it. Oh well. :D
pol pot noodle	UBfucking40 replied on: 11/22/2006 2:33:37 PM quite agree. ali campbell sounds like that loveable cockerny racist jim davidson when he used to do his 'hilarious' chalkie white accent. bloody awful!
mazza	UBfucking40 replied on: 10/31/2007 10:33:26 PM how come everybody you speak to in birmingham either knows ub40 or is related to a member or their sister went out with one of them etc etc etc - does my head in !!!
m8e Rank: Ozzy	UBfucking40 replied on: 11/1/2007 9:44:43 PM The Status Quo of reggae. I remember they used to have their own bar on Snow Hill Queensway back in the 80's, but it had to close eventually - presumably for reasons connected with the fact that I never saw more than half-a-dozen people in there. In general, however, I think Birmingham bands having their own bars is a great idea. I'd love to see a Napalm Death bar, for instance (they could call it "Scum"), while an Anaal Nathrakh bar serving Pandemonic Hyperblast cocktails couldn't fail to be a winner.
Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie	UBfucking40 replied on: 11/2/2007 2:34:54 PM quote: The Status Quo of reggae. I remember they used to have their own bar on Snow Hill Queensway back in the 80's, but it had to close eventually - presumably for reasons connected with the fact that I never saw more than half-a-dozen people in there. Wasn't that the bar just up from Lloyd House? If so my mate fitted all the blinds there when it first opened, he said they were all tossers at the time. If you think the members of UB40 are objectionable gets, you should see what their vile spoilt children are like. I saw some of the Clan Campbell and their hangers on down at Brands Hatch recently. It was nothing special, just a small club race meeting with a few hundred people there. Talk about acting as if you own the place. They swanned around wearing their taseless chavvy D&G/Channel designer chic, girlfriend's faces so thick in slap and fake tan they could have been mistaken for the sinister orange make-up women from Rackham's (NB see BiNS 2003/04). One of them was even wearing Victoria Beckham branded designer jeans. I mean, for God's sake, what does that tell you about someone's aspirations? A four bed detached in Solihull living next door to a Coventry City player probably. No wonder their pub shut.
m8e Rank: Ozzy	UBfucking40 replied on: 11/3/2007 2:25:21 PM quote: quote: The Status Quo of reggae. I remember they used to have their own bar on Snow Hill Queensway back in the 80's, but it had to close eventually - presumably for reasons connected with the fact that I never saw more than half-a-dozen people in there. Wasn't that the bar just up from Lloyd House? If so my mate fitted all the blinds there when it first opened, he said they were all tossers at the time. Yes, I guess having their bar just around the corner from the HQ of the notorious West Midlands Serious Crime Squad didn't do them any favours. I mean, you were hardly going to feel comfortable smoking a joint in there. (For me at least, listening to reggae music without smoking dope is a bit like eating fish and chips without salt and vinegar) I must admit, however, that on the only occasion I've ever seen them play live, I really quite enjoyed them. They were supporting Bob Dylan at Wembley Stadium along with Santana, it was a nice sunny day, and they created a really good vibe (for want of a better word) among the 70,000 people there. Not that I'd ever go so far as to buy one of their albums though.
Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie	UBfucking40 replied on: 11/19/2007 11:26:54 AM Quite by chance I spoke to my mate Mike, the blind fitter, at the weekend and I asked him again about UB40. He told me he also fitted blinds at the house of UB40 as well as at their Bar. When he got there, Campbell was in floods of tears because there was a rat in his kitchen and what was he going to do, so Mike said “I’m going to fix that rat, that’s what I’m going to do, I’m going to fix that rat,” and they paid him big bucks up front because it was gnawing away at their dreads and that is where their awesome Brummie reggae power was concentrated. So what he did was this: he goes round to UB40’s house every day and puts a piece of cheese by the rat hole and lets the rat pop out and eat it and then go back inside. Then he does the same thing the next day and the next day and the next day (but he takes Wednesday off because he's hung over plus quite gassy) and the next day and the next day but then the day after that he don’t put no cheese there, so the rat pops his head out and says "Hey, where's my fuckin’ cheese goddammit?" and that’s when he bash him over the head with a mallet. Success! They wrote a song about it, Red Red Wine I think it was called. Well, that rat turned out to be the terrifying inspiration for the Dean Gaffney that would haunt our future nightmares, but nonetheless, the incident as a whole teaches us that there can be no room for emotion in the erotic world of pest control.
Rowley-Russ Rank: Toyah	UBfucking40 replied on: 11/19/2007 3:43:15 PM quote: Mike, the blind fitter That must make his job difficult. I like the thought that they all live in the same house, anyway. I'm envisioning something similar to those old Reeves & Mortimer (I think it was them) parodies of Slade, where they all live together and demand to know where their Bovril is etc.
Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie	UBfucking40 replied on: 11/19/2007 4:37:30 PM Yes. Glaucoma's a terrible affliction for manual workers. Cup-a-soup anyone?
bounder chairman of the board Rank: Ozzy	UBfucking40 replied on: 11/19/2007 6:54:56 PM UB40, live next door to Slade of course. Isn't youtube marvelous[a/ target=_blank>
m8e Rank: Ozzy This message was updated on 11/23/2007 10:11:16 AM by m8e	UBfucking40 replied on: 11/23/2007 10:09:07 AM Apart from Barney, Napalm Death all used to live in the same house together, prior to Jesse Pintado's untimely booze-related demise last year. Must have been great being their next-door neighbours.
jacksonphreak	UBfucking40 replied on: 2/12/2008 10:10:07 PM I agree.....thank god they've jacked it in. As a big Sabbath/Ozzy fan, UB40 have never done anything for me.
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