According to my great friend Tony Harris…..

Christmas isn’t Christmas without Lindisfarne. Tony grew up on Tyneside and every year the Lindisfarne Christmas Concert at Newcastle City Hall was a yuletide tradition. The last one was in 1993 but with the City Hall threatened with closure, Lindisfarne have got back together to help save it. This Christmas, their sell-out show will return. I suppose our equivalent in London was Gary Glitter’s Christmas Gang Show at the Hammersmith Odeon. Somehow I can’t see that yuletide tradition returning any time soon.