Some of the north east’s best and most critically acclaimed artists will be headlining performances at Sage Gateshead over the next few weeks, as it welcomes back audiences for the first time since lockdown.

Kathryn Tickell, Richard Dawson and the Royal Northern Sinfonia are just some of the big names on the Sage Live 2020 series of live gigs and concerts in front of a socially distanced audience inside Sage Gateshead.

And so too is Newcastle’s Lanterns on the Lake, who will be performing their Mercury-nominated album Spook the Herd for the very first time. We spoke to the band’s guitarist and producer, Paul Gregory, about why this year has been a particularly bizarre one for him, the band’s vocalist Hazel Wilde… and their baby daughter.