Ed Sheeran swapped the stage at the Stadium of Light for a seat in the nearby Sunderland Empire at the weekend to go and see a performance of Chicago before the second of his two sold out gigs.
The Stadium of Light was packed to the rafters on both Friday and Saturday night as Brit winner Ed delighted fans on his Mathematics tour. Friday night's opening concert posted the highest audience ever for a gig in the North East as 60,000 fans flocked to see the man who has given us modern classics like The A Team, Thinking Out Loud and Castle on the Hill.
But, while he was very much a man in demand on Wearside, Ed did managed to find the time to go and see the cast of Chicago just down the road as they performed their second to last show of their run at the Empire. The show had been in the headlines in the lead up to its Sunderland stir, thanks to Gemma Collins being cast in the iconic role of Mama Morton, before pulling out of the whole tour due to injury, just a week before her scheduled debut.
