TOPLOADER announced as headliners for STRANRAER RNLI Parkfest 2017. The charity music festival now entering its 8th year has been bringing the region top entertainment for the past seven years, headline acts including legendary bands and musicians such as – Dodgy, The Neville Staples Band, S club and Ben Haenow. have been entertaining the crowds at Dumfries and Galloway’s most westerly music festival. This year promises to be no exception as 90’s chart topping, act ‘TOPLOADER’ are heading for the shores of Loch Ryan this August.
Since forming in 1997 Toploader have over two million album sales to their name and a string of top 20 hits both home and abroad. Their debut album ‘Onka’s Big Moka,’ sold over one million copies and remained in the Top 5 of the UK album chart for over six months earning them 4 Brit Award nominations.
In 2000 the single ‘Dancing in the Moonlight’ became a global hit spending over a year in European Airplay Charts transforming Toploader into a household name. In 2013 the same track re-entered the Top 40 for three weekend topped the 10,000,000 hits mark on Youtube, an incredible thirteen years after it was first released, cementing it as one of the biggest songs of recent times.
In 2013 Toploader released two singles ‘Turn It Around,’ co-written with Eg White (Adele, James Morrison) and produced by Andy Green (Keane, Scouting For Girls) and ‘This Is The Night,’ produced by Tim Bran (London Grammar). Both tracks were excellently received by the press and gained strong support with BBC Radio 2 with placements on the ‘A’ Playlist. ‘This Is The Night’ gave them their first No.1 in the Radio 2 Airplay Charts. With a reputation as a genuine crowd-pleasing live band Toploader have backed the likes Paul Weller, Robbie Williams, Noel Gallagher, Tom Jones, Simple Minds and Bon Jovi, where they became the last British band to play the original Wembley Stadium. They have also appeared at a host of festivals including Glastonbury, V-Festival, T In The Park and Chris Evans’s CarFest.
Spokes person for Parkfest ‘Ali Donowho’ told DGWGO ” We Think Toploader will be very popular with our Parkfest attendees this August, We are very excited that they are coming, and we still have loads more bands and announcements to make in the coming weeks.”
For more information follow Stranraer RNLI Parkfest on Facebook HERE
