GALTRES Patklands Festival has signed "the perfect festival band" to headline the closing night at Duncombe Park, Helmsley, on August 30: The Proclaimers.

Scottish spectacled siblings Charlie and Craig Reid will be playing the top slot filled in previous years by The Human League, The Stranglers, AdamAnt, and Levellers.

The main stages of Glastonbury, T In The Park, Isle of Wight and V Festival all have welcomed the Leith twins in recent years, but this August Bank Holiday they will be heading to Helmsley.

"The Proclaimers have to be the perfect festival band, and this has to be one of our best ever bookings. They are ideal for our event," says Rodney Wright, music programme manager for Parklands 2015. "It's gonna be a brilliant weekend and a lot of fun. We just can't wait."

The Proclaimers will join more than 100 bands and acts playing in the festival's riverside location at Duncombe Park from August 28 to 30. Hugh Cornwell, the original Stranglers frontman, will be there on the Saturday, and many more big names are still to be announced to complement the likes of north eastern folk-rock favourites Holy Moly & The Crackers and guitarist John Smith.

Last month, the Reid brothers released their tenth studio album, Let's Hear It For The Dogs, on Cooking Vinyl, addressing such subjects as religious bigotry, Scottish nationalism and miscreant MPs and Seventies' celebrities' child abuse, as well as lingering love and the woes of ageing.

The Proclaimers are best known for the euphoric single I'm Gonne Be (500 Miles), along with Letter From America, Let's Get Married and I'm On My Way, all songs that featured in their hit musical and film Sunshine On Leith, which will be screened at Parklands 2015.

Day and weekend tickets, and more information, are available at parklands.events