{"id":53,"date":"2008-03-24T23:31:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T05:31:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-01-18T10:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:15:26","slug":"ub40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"UB40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a data-fancybox=\"gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/dsc025182.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc025182_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Hilde, Andr\u00e9, Peter en Astrid\" width=\"40%\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"><\/a>UB40 was in Kampala op zaterdag 23 januari 2008. Er waren wel meerdere redenen te bedenken om dit concert niet te missen. Zo houdt de zanger Ali Campbell er na bijna 30 jaar mee op, en zou het concert in Kampala ongetwijfeld een van de laatse worden. Maar de belangrijkste reden was wel dat we dit samen met vrienden (overgekomen uit Vietnam) zouden meemaken voor wie dit tevens het allereerste popconcert zou zijn. De sfeer, de ambiance en het gratis bier deden de rest.<\/p>\n<p>Peter<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a data-fancybox=\"gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/dsc02523.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dsc02523_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"UB40 Madness\" width=\"40%\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Reviews on the Kampala Show of UB40<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monitor Online<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Vision Online<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>On the origin of &#8230; UB40&#8217;s name<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUB40\u2019s first album was released in September 1980. The album cover was a reproduction of the unemployment benefit card, with the title \u201cSigning Off\u201d rubber-stamped in red. It referred to \u201csigning off\u201d the dole, i.e. getting a job. It was both an acknowledgement of the launch of the band, and a celebration of their new status.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Website of UB40 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The band\u2019s official website: <a href=\"https:\/\/ub40.global\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ub40.global\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; UB40 was in Kampala op zaterdag 23 januari 2008. Er waren wel meerdere redenen te bedenken om dit concert niet te missen. Zo houdt de zanger Ali Campbell er na bijna 30 jaar mee op, en zou het concert in Kampala ongetwijfeld een van de laatse worden. Maar de belangrijkste reden was wel dat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/?p=53\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UB40&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oeganda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9SLK-ub40","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28512,"href":"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/28512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intussen.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}