Community radio station East Coast FM has teamed up with 60’s legends The Animals and The Troggs as part of fund raising efforts to support the local broadcasting service.
The bands will appear live at the Corn Exchange in Haddington on Saturday 4 April 2015 and will play with members of their original line up in a night that promises to bring back fond memories and create many more.
The Animals were the second British band to top the American charts after The Beatles with the now multi-million selling and legendary anthem, ‘House of the Rising Sun’. The band subsequently achieved over twenty global Top Ten hit records, many of which gained the Number One slot in various parts of the world. In Britain alone, the band had no less than twelve chart entries. The Animals were the first British band to tour Poland and Japan.
The Troggs also had a number of hits in the United Kingdom and the United States including the U.S. chart-topper “Wild Thing”, “With a Girl Like You” and “Love Is All Around”, all of which sold over 1 million copies.] “Wild Thing” is ranked #257 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Ian Robertson, Station Manager at ECFM said, “We are incredibly excited to have these two legendary bands coming to Haddington for one night only. There are people coming from all parts of Scotland for this, gigs like this don’t come along very often.”
This celebration of music from the 60s and beyond takes place over the Easter bank holiday weekend. Listeners of East Coast FM and supporters of the station are being encouraged to buy tickets earlier for the event before they sell out.
Tickets are £20 and available from Ticket Scotland, ECFM and Mike’s Bikes in Haddington.
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
