Black Uhuru - BBC In Concert, Glastonbury Festival, Worthy Farm, Pilton, Britain, 6-29-2025

Here's yet more from the 2025 Glastonbury. This time, it's a set by Jamaican reggae band Black Uhuru.

Black Uhuru has been around since the 1970s, though they've gone through a lot of line-up changes. In 2025, they're a threesome, with only one original member remaining.

Here's their Wikipedia entry: 

Black Uhuru - Wikipedia 

I already posted a 1982 concert from them, which you can find here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/03/jamaica-world-music-festival-montego_70.html 

As usual for this festival, the music here is unreleased, but the sound quality is excellent. I found a high-quality video file, converted it to audio, and broke it into mp3s.

This album is an hour and two minutes long.

01 I Love King Selassie (Black Uhuru)
02 What Is Life (Black Uhuru)
03 Shine Eye Gal - Plastic Smile (Black Uhuru)
04 System (Black Uhuru)
05 Top Rankin' (Black Uhuru)
06 Hit the Road, Jack - Hail and Blaze (Black Uhuru)
07 Black Uhuru Anthem (Black Uhuru)
08 Whole World Is Africa (Black Uhuru)
09 General Penitentiary (Black Uhuru)
10 talk (Black Uhuru)
11 Jah Guide (Black Uhuru)
12 There's a Reward (Black Uhuru)
13 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Black Uhuru)
14 Solidarity (Black Uhuru)
15 Sinsemilla (Black Uhuru)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/e7QesebD

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/qrzRRymmrCmZqAk/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Jamaica World Music Festival, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 11-26-1982, Part 4: Black Uhuru

The fourth act on the second day of the 1982 Jamaica World Music Festival was the Jamaican reggae band Black Uhuru.

Black Uhuru is one of the most critically acclaimed reggae bands, though they don't have the same pop crossover as, say, Jimmy Cliff. It was lucky this concert happened the year it did, because the band was probably at their musical peak. Their 1981 album "Red" is considered a classic in the genre. Rolling Stone Magazine rated it Number 23 in their list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s. Their next album, 1982's "Chill Out," is also considered one of their best. However, in 1984 they lost a key member, Michael Rose, who left for a solo career. After that, they had a change of musical direction and lost more members. So their peak is generally considered the early 1980s.

Here's their Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more:

Black Uhuru - Wikipedia

This album is an hour and 22 minutes long.

49 talk (Black Uhuru)
50 Shine Eye Gal - Plastic Smile (Black Uhuru)
51 I Love King Sellassie (Black Uhuru)
52 Chill Out (Black Uhuru)
53 Darkness (Black Uhuru)
54 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Black Uhuru)
55 Abortion - General Penitentiary (Black Uhuru)
56 Happiness - Whole World Is Africa (Black Uhuru)
57 Sinsemilla (Black Uhuru)
58 talk (Black Uhuru)
59 Spongi Reggae (Black Uhuru)
60 Mondays (Black Uhuru)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16407844/VA-JmicaWrldMsicFstvlMntgoByJmica__11-26-1982Prt04BlckUhru_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/wY7WZ2og

I couldn't find any photos of the band at this concert, or any good ones from any 1982 concerts. So I went with a promo photo from that year.