I went for a walk into the Kings Heath High Street to do a few errands and pop into the local record shop – and I bumped into my friend Jez and Brian from UB40 outside the Hare & Hounds.
It turns out Jez and Sam Coley were making a radio documentary about the 30th anniversary of UB40′s first album, Signing Off, and since I was there, Sam roped me in to do a bit of an intro and a quick chat with Ranking Roger from The Beat so that we could cut together a version for NZ Radio.
UB40 played their first gig at the Hare and Hounds back in 1979 for a friend’s birthday party.
In the above video, which I filmed on my phone, Sam gets the guys to talk about their experiences of New Zealand – and it was recorded by one of our students, Steve Thornton. I thought this bit of the interview might be of interest to my kiwi readers.
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Err, the bit about the airport refers to people’s names and talks about the present day. Perhaps you might consider cutting it? Still illegal here you know…