Jamaican reggae band Toots and the Maytals have been confirmed to headline the Stool Pigeon stage of Yorkshire’s Beacon Festival. The festival, will runs from 17th-19th August, will play host to the band on the final night.

As if the band need an introduction, but we’ll give you one anyway. They started releasing records from their base in Kingston, Jamaica in the early 1960s, working with the likes of Prince Buster and getting their first major hit, ‘Monkey Man’ in 1970. Their influence is cast far and wide, beyond the immediate world of roots music and into the punk and ska revival of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, through to modern songwriters like the late Amy Winehouse. Toots isn’t just about nostalgia, though; he continues to record and release new music, bringing sunshine everywhere he performs.

Fellow bands at the festival include Roots Manuva, Wild Beasts, Patrick Wolf and Ghostpoet. Tickets are available here.