In the past, the London jazz great Shabaka Hutchings has been one of the driving forces of bands like Sons Of Kemet and the Comet Is Coming. Shabaka is now a first-name-only guy, and he released his ...

Vesta Tilley laid the foundation stone of what is now the Sunderland Empire on 29 September 1906 and took to the stage on 1 July 1907 to officially declare the theatre open. Masterminded by two of the ...