UB40 band affiliates announced bust by the judge

Four original associates of reggae group UB40 have been pronounced bankrupt.

A judge at Birmingham County Court gave the verdict against saxophone player Brian Travers, drummer Jimmy Brown, trumpeter Terence Oswald and percussionist Norman Hassan last week.

It comes after the stoppage of the band's now obsolete record label DEP International and a break up over funding which divide the group in 2008.

UB40 sold in excess of 70 million records over their 33-year profession.

They notched up more than 50 chart hits counting Red Red Wine, I Got You Babe and Kingston Town.

The court order proceeding for a year and signifies that tax authorities could capture property to induce any outstanding liabilities.

The four musicians' particulars have now been scheduled by the Insolvency Service.

A spokeswoman for ex frontman Ali Campbell told the Daily Telegraph the economic failure court case appeared he was precise to stop the band.

"It is sarcastic that the very week they celebrate their first performance they have been announced bankrupt, after management started in 2006, justifying both Ali and Mickey Virtue's conclusion to quit UB40," she said.

Campbell bitterly divided from the band in 2008 citing "administrative difficulties".

In an unwrap letter to supporters on the band's website, he said he was "extremely unhappy with management lives out, adding he had "an continuing prosecution into the using of my business matters on account to UB40".

A fifth innovative member of the group - Robin Campbell, the brother of Ali - was also caught up in the Birmingham County Court case, though is not planned as clear out. The ruling comes a week after UB40 were respected with a music heritage sign at the Hare and Hounds pub in Kings Heath, Birmingham, where the band first performed in 1979.