Yesterday evening, Cindy and I went to Gateshead to see Nitin Sawhney play at the Sage.

It's a fantastic building and a brilliant concert hall. It is very comfortable and has fantastic acoustics, but it was a slightly strange venue for a "pop" concert.

sage

Because it was all seating, everyone was sitting down most of the time and listening very reverently with clapping after the end of each song - a concert rather than a gig.

The music was brilliant with 5 fantastic vocalists. They played some tracks off the new album, Philtre, and some older ones too.

We came home on the train after the concert and collapsed into bed at about 1am.