00:00So I've just finished my gig at the Flyer Station in Sunderland and it was a really wonderful evening.
00:07The crowd were fantastic. It's the first show I've done as Adele Sunday in about 18 years.
00:14So it was a really special night for me on many levels and I just always love coming to Sunderland to perform.
00:21It feels like a homecoming in many ways and yeah just very thankful for a very lovely evening.
00:27When we came into the building there was a musician called Will Swindle.
00:31He was playing Blackbird which was really really beautiful and really high level of talent which you could tell straight away.
00:40And even when we came to the hotel last night there was music going on and it just feels like Sunderland genuinely is a very creative talented musical city.
00:50So it's just nice to hear it in the air and it's great when you hear music spill out of the concert halls and actually onto the streets because that's how we're experiencing music in our day-to-day lives.
01:00So yeah it feels alive and electric with music.
01:03It's really fantastic to hear that Sunderland's bid for investment from the Arts Council was successful and that it's going to be funding a lot of music around the city.
01:13And it's going to be even more vibrant, even more full of creativity and talent.
01:18This investment is going to be funding so many different genres of music from punk to jazz to dance music and also it's going to be delivered by working practitioners in the city already.
01:31So it's going to bring new work to Sunderland and it's just a positive all round.
