The last time The Hold Steady visited us was back in 2007, when we broadcast from New York during the CMJ festival, and the group put on such a rip-roaring and rocking performance, you'd have thought they were on stage at The Uptown Bar.

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More recently 26-year-old Ava Maginnis, from the Totterdown area of Bristol, remembered waiting in the wings on the right-hand side of the stage before a performance.

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The large Minneapolis-based band includes live painting on stage in a multimedia performance that has earned them a unique reputation in the indie music world.

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His wife, the actress and singer Emmanuelle Seigner, did not mention her husband during her hour-long performance, and Polanski did not appear on stage.

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The 25-year-old iconic singer was back on the stage in an unprecedented live performance, 15 years after that fateful September night when he was gunned down just off of the Las Vegas Strip.

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Horn was attacked halfway through a Friday night performance at The Mirage as he appeared alone on stage with a seven-year-old tiger named Montecore.

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The band turned in a powerful early performance of "Carry On" as a downpour on stage began mid-song and guitarist Jack Antonoff got a kiss from girlfriend "Girls" creator Lena Dunham after winning.

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At the beginning of the 90-minute production, the cast kneads bread, which is baked on stage in ovens during the performance, and served hot to the audience, which is invited on stage to visit with the cast after they perform.

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