UFK

United Kingdom

UFK formed in 2000 as a three-piece pop punk group, playing our first gig as support to 4ft Fingers at the Cleethorpes Beachcomber. By mid 2002, we expanded to a five-strong ska-punk outfit. Gigs came thick-and-fast until late 2004, by which time we had all drifted away to University. In those early active years, we recorded two EPs (Four Lives Left & Bullet In View) toured the country with The Wayriders, headlined several of the famous Cleethorpes Winter Garden Christmas Gigs, supported ska legends The Beat and The Selecter, as well as top early 2000s UK ska and punk names including Lightyear, King Prawn, Whitmore, Not Katies and Nerve. The band reunited in 2016 to record revisions of classics, and met again in 2017. In 2020, we started work remotely on an 8-track EP entitled showcasing old material and creating new songs. 4 UFK tracks have been broadcast on the BBC as part of their "Introducing" programming, and US guitarist Rhett Shull has played a track as part of his podcast