The legendary Back to Basics club night is coming to Sunderland this May with founder Dave Beer on decks. While other “superclubs” like Gatecrasher or Ministry of Sound became corporate brands, Basics stayed “basic”. It won countless awards (including…

Arlo Parks is on the dancefloor for her third album, and I’m a huge fan of this new direction of her sound. Her soft vocals and introspective lyrics pair beautifully with the hazy, euphoric production that has flavours of house, techno and garage. She wro…

The award-winning photographer Debbie Todd is having her first solo show at Bishop Auckland Town Hall. The exhibition was specially commissioned for the venue and brings together two bodies of work presented in publicly accessible spaces. ‘The Meaning …