TOPLOADER and supporting bands
SATURDAY 29th JUNE @ Funky Tent 5.00pm - Tickets 15.00 in advance, 18.00 on the gate
A full bar will be available, supplied by The Grainstore Brewery.
The Rutland Lions will be providing a tempting BBQ.
Toploader are a British band from Eastbourne who formed in 1997. With over two million album sales to their name and a string of top 20 hits both home and abroad, Toploader quickly became one of the most popular acts in British music.
Their debut album, Onkas Big Moka sold over 1 million units and remained in the Top 5 of the UK album chart for over six months. Their cover of King Harvests song Dancing in the Moonlight became a global hit for the band. Their second album Magic Hotel, reached number 3 in the UK Albums Chart.
The band decided to break up in 2003 due to the demise of their record label S2 but after an extended hiatus signed a one-album deal with Underdogs Music for their third album which was released in June 2011. The albums title was Only Human and the first single from it, Never Stop Wondering, was released in March 2011.
In February 2013 Toploader have released a new single, Turn It Around, co-written with award-winning songwriter Eg White and produced by Andrew Green. The song is included on a four-song EP, and has received positive reviews and extensive radio play on Radio 2. It is widely considered their best song since the first album and a subsequent tour is planned including this visit to the Oakham Festival.
Strike Up The Colours is a four-piece Pop/Rock band from Oakham, Rutland. They are currently playing shows in local venues as well as playing in bigger cities such as Leicester at venues such as The Soundhouse and Firebug.
The Boobytraps The 'Traps' have been described as 'the next biggest thing to come out of Leicester since Kasabian’.
Locked Out
Locked Out like to play a wide range of music, everything from funk through rock n' roll to the latest indie hits.
The band are based in the Counties of Rutland and Leicestershire, but work a much wider area. Formed in 2008 to play a one off charity gig, Locked Out had so much fun they decided to continue. Over the years they have built up a comprehensive play list of hit songs and even play a few tunes you will have forgotten too.
THE NEW FORBIDDEN
Loyd Grossman's American punk band "Jet Bronx And The Forbidden" was a cult hit in the early 1980s, and it was in late 2007 that the band rose from the ashes with a new line-up as "The New Forbidden". Loyd asked old friend Valentine Guinness to sing lead vocal, and Valentine brought with him long term collaborator James Baring on bass guitar. Mancunian Sam Stopford plays drums and Tom Hughes is on keyboards. The vocals are ably backed up by backing singer Leila.
The original aim was to enable Loyd to appear at the Rebellion Festival at the Blackpool Winter Gardens in August 2008. As the gigs stacked up and the band developed a wealth of new songs it became clear that the project had a big future to add to an illustrious past. With Loyd's 1968 Gibson guitar driving the music, The New Forbidden produce a wild, catchy sound with a modern angst-ridden edge, but the influence of the golden age of the UK/US New Wave stays as a rich thread through the material. There are shades of Blondie, Iggy Pop, The Killers, The Damned, The Only Ones, Richard Hell, The Smiths and The Doors.
Since June 2008 The New Forbidden have played extensively in the UK and Ireland at venues varying from the Glastonbury, Belladrum, Rhythm and Cornbury festivals, the Borderline Club, the Cobden Club, Putney Half Moon and Soho's 100 Club.Â
The first album, Ain't Doin' Nothin', is on iTunes and Amazon.
