Saturday, February 14, 2026

UB40 - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Brixton Academy, London, Britain, 12-20-1998

I was looking through my music collection the other day, and noticed some albums I thought I'd posted but I'd somehow missed. This is one. Between 2022 and 2025, I posted five albums of UB40 performing for the BBC, all of them from the early 1980s. This sixth BBC album is a concert from well over a decade later, in 1998.

Personally, I like early UB40, but I feel they went downhill after finding mainstream success. Be that as it may, I found this concert, and I didn't have to edit it much, so I figured I might as well post it. It came right after the release of their studio album "Labour of Love III." Like the two previous albums in that series, it consists entirely of cover versions. So if you don't like later UB40, this actually mostly consists of covers, plus early songs, like "Tyler" and "King." 

There also were two special guests: Ken Boothe and Winston Groovy. Boothe was a big reggae star in the 1960s and 70s. He had tons of hits in Jamaica, and also two big hits in Britain in the 1970s: "Everything I Own" and "Crying Over You." The latter song was performed here. Groovy also was a big reggae star in that same general time period. His best known song, "Please Don't Make Me Cry," was covered by UB40 on their 1983 album "Labour of Love," and was a hit for them. He performed the song with them here.

As far as edits go, I only made one alternation, but it was a big one. It turns out the lead vocals were really low in the mix. I used the UVR5 program to bring those up to normal levels.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 56 minutes long. 

01 Come Back Darling (UB40)
02 Homely Girl (UB40)
03 Here I Am [Come and Take Me] (UB40)
04 talk (UB40)
05 Crying Over You (UB40 with Ken Boothe)
06 Kingston Town (UB40)
07 talk (UB40)
08 Tyler (UB40)
09 King (UB40)
10 I'll Be There (UB40)
11 Wear You to the Ball (UB40)
12 Red Red Wine (UB40)
13 Love It When You Smile (UB40)
14 Can't Help Falling in Love (UB40)
15 Please Don't Make Me Cry (UB40 with Winston Groovy)

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The cover photo of lead singer Ali Campbell is from the Solidays Festival in Paris, France, on July 10, 1999.

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