Magic Hotel Autumn Tour

Toploader will be back on the road this autumn, with a huge, 41 date UK & Ireland Tour. The tour begins on October 5th in Bristol, & finishes in Dublin on December 5th.

For the full list of concert dates, check out the Tour Dates page.

They're back!!!

It's been a while, but the lads are back with a new single and album in time for the summer!

The new single is called 'Time of My Life' and will be released on the 5th of August, ahead of the new album, 'Magic Hotel', out on 19th August.

To celebrate their return, the lads going to be playing some of their new songs at 3 secret, album launch gigs. The gigs will take place in Glasgow, Manchester and London and are ticket invite only.

Toploader and Shed Seven square up for Hogmanay fight

Toploader's Dan Hipgrave has threatened to fight Shed Seven band member Rick Witter at a New Year's Eve concert in Edinburgh.The pair are reported to have traded insults during a recent gig at the city's Commercial Quay.

Hipgrave allegedly called Shed Seven "crap" and "arrogant" and told Witter if he wanted a fight he knew where he would be.

Both bands are performing at Leith's Hogmanay Concert in Edinburgh on New Year's Eve.Witter has now threatened to headbutt Hipgrave for every chime of the clock's 12 bells.

He told the Edinburgh Evening News: "I'll just butt him in the face for every chime. "I'm not into people that go round slagging other bands off. All that is going to do is make a really bad atmosphere between us and them on the night.

Shed Seven are scheduled to play immediately before Toploader at the event, at midnight.

Farm Aid concert cancelled

The Farm Aid concert at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on October 27, has been cancelled because of the weeks events in America.

The event was planned by Glastonbury Festival organiser Michael Eavis as a benefit for farmers hit by the foot-and-mouth crisis.

More details should be released soon.

Toploader to play at charity concert

Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis is putting together Farm Aid 2001 to help raise money for farmers hit by foot-and-mouth, and Toploader have agree to preform.

But so far Eavis has found it difficult to get many of the big headline acts to agree to perform at the show at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on October 27.

"I have not found many people in the business falling over themselves to get involved," he says.

Mr Eavis, who is a dairy farmer, says he had approached all of the top names in British rock and pop, including acts such as Manic Street Preachers, but had so far received a cool response. Top pop acts including U2 and Robbie Williams have declined to play at the special charity concert. Mr Eavis says he needs 10 fairly big names for the concert to be a success.

So far, other bands who have agreed to play include Coldplay, Ash, and Reef.

Money raised in the event will be split between five charities: The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Fund, The Addington Fund: Farm Crisis Network; The Rural Stress Information Network; The Samaritans and the RSPCA.

Tickets for the event can be purchased by ringing 0115 9129115.

Dan and Gail marry in Edinburgh

Toploader bassist Dan Hipgrave married Gail Porter in front of 50 friends in Gail's home city of Edinburgh.

As Gail looked elegant as she emerged from the register office, wearing a silver, three-quater-length Ronit Zilkha dress decorated with sequins, she said: 'We wanted the wedding to be very small and definitely not a white one because I'm not a virgin'. Dan wore a smart black suit, white shirt and cream silk tie, with his best man, Joe, by his side.

Dan and Gail met on Chris Evans' TFI Friday show last October.

Gail spent the reception excitedly showing the guest the beautiful gold wedding ring encrusted with 33 diamonds which Dan had given her.

The couple are too busy to go on honeymoon, but the hope to get get away sometime in October.

Gail whips Dan into shape

Gail Porter has spiced up her love life by buying Dan a designer whip for his birthday

She confessed all to mark the launch of a celebrity Handbag.com auction which she is taking part in to raise cash for Breast Cancer Care.

Porter said: "I have just bought a diamond-studded whip for Dan's birthday from Agent Provocateur. Dan likes whips."

And asked about the most embarrassing thing she carries in her handbag, she replied: "I'll ask Dan - he says pictures of him and handcuffs."

Porter and other celebrities are designing handbags which will be auctioned off for 10 days from October 4.