This is the fourth album from the Tuareg desert blues innovators from Algeria, and this time they’ve introduced electronic textures to their sound, as well as a newfound intimacy. It’s a release that saw local artists and friends join the sessions, result…

Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll musical The Rocky Horror Show is back in the north-east once again this January – specifically The Sunderland Empire. Can 35 million theatregoers really be wrong? (Answer: no they can’t.) That’s how many people…

That – if I’m not very much mistaken – is The Woman in Black, and she’s coming to scare the bejesus out of Darlington Hippodrome audiences this January. Susan Hill’s gothic horror ‘The Woman in Black’ became one of the most feted novels of its kind dur…