Lindisfarne Christmas concert
Folk-rock band Lindisfarne are reuniting this Christmas in a bid to help save Newcastle City Hall from potential closure.
Folk-rock band Lindisfarne are reuniting this Christmas in a bid to help save Newcastle City Hall from potential closure.
It's been two decades and the wait is finally over. Lindisfarne's famous Christmas show is back at the City Hall in Newcastle. It's running 20th, 22nd and 23rd, every night is a sell out. The band sold 1,000 tickets in the first hour and they hope it will become an annual event.
"I would personally like to thank the local community for their amazing donations of food, toiletries and clothing. "
Owners John and Irene Hays say there is ''light at the end of the tunnel'', after the pandemic forced them to close 650 UK stores.
There has been resistance to calls to dismantle memorials to the explorer.