A kitchen to be set up in the arena for the UB40 guys
Performing in Lithuania for the first time on 18th – 19th February, UB40 guys, known as Great Britain's kings of reggae, will have to have a kitchen set up for them in Vilnius Siemens and Panevėžys Cido arenas. In order to actualize the band's requirements for food, both – the organizers of UB40's concerts in Lithuania and the chefs preparing the food during the visit – will have to hustle quite a bit.
The 13 members of UB40 require to be given a menu before dinner, which they could choose the dishes they want from. Next to meat (not pork), chicken, fish dishes the kitchen chefs preparing the food will also have to offer a vegetarian dish, where absolutely no trace of fish, seafood or meat could be found. Besides, one of the dishes offered in the main menu must be particularly lean. Together with the main dishes, no less than three kinds of stewed or fried vegetables must appear on the menu, as well as a possibility to choose between rice or potato garnish.
“Right now the negotiation between UB40's agents, us and the chefs we will be working with is taking place. We are adjusting the main dish menu. Actually, some immediate dishes that could be given to the band on the day of the concert are given in the requirements list they sent us. They would not mind it if the menu included chicken or other kind of steak with sauce, dishes from the national Italian cuisine (various pasta with different sauces, lasagne), fried fresh salmon, tuna, shark meat, prawns, crab, fried turkey, beef, chicken dishes from Asian cuisine, kebab, grilled beef or chicken, sushi”, – names Juras Vėželis, the president of SEVEN Live, the company organizing UB40's concerts in Lithuania.
Before serving the main dish of the dinner, UB40 will be offered soup, a few kinds of fresh salad, various fruit. At the end of dinner, the guys will be offered to taste several kinds of dessert. The guys from the band will have their dinner after their performance on stage.
“Even though UB40's requests for food are really striking, and here we will have to work quite a bit together with our chefs, their requirements for dressing rooms are very basic. It happens that celebrities ask for several private rooms for one star, or for the rooms to only have particular furniture, carpets or colour of walls and so on. In this case there is nothing like that. For the 13 members of the band we are asked to prepare 3 tidy lockable rooms, where there would be several tables, chairs, a sofa, a large mirror; however, the list of drinks and snacks required to be served there is also considerable”, - smiles J. Vėželis.
In their dressing rooms UB40 will have more than half a hundred bottles of mineral water, fresh orange juice, coffee and tea, refreshments, fresh sliced fruit, bananas, various nuts and raisins, olives, different kinds of cheese, bread, cold meat products (not pork), chewing gum. The requirement lists also includes 12 packs of cigarettes, 6 bottles of wine, 6 bottles of champagne and 10 bottles of beer.
The entire day the backstage of Vilnius Siemens and Panevėžys Cido arenas will have to be provided with sufficient quality coffee, various teas, honey, sugar and sweetener, milk high and low in fat, juice, carbonated and decarbonated mineral water, ice and snacks: fresh fruit, various biscuits.
The organizers of UB40 concerts in Vilnius and Panevėžys will have to provide catering not only for the band members, but also the staff, which consists of 15 people. The latter will have to be served breakfast, dinner and supper backstage.
