It has hosted everyone from Rachmaninoff to The Rolling Stones, and now the historic Bristol Beacon music venue has reopened after a costly, controversial five-year refurb.
Before it closed, the venue had formerly been known as Colston Hall, named after the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston, but was rebranded after decades of protests from civil rights activists and musicians, including the Bristol-formed trip-hop collective, Massive Attack.
