LIVE REVIEW – COURTNEY BARNETT: AVIVA STUDIOS – 17/10/2026

“Yeah, she opened for Foo Fighters a couple years back. She was very good; she reminded me heavily of Bob Dylan.” These are the words of a very beloved friend of mine, upon asking what I was up to this weekend. To say I didn’t expect those words, in more than one sense would be […]
There’s something almost poetic about seeing The Last Dinner Party inside Aviva Studios, the cavernous, concrete warehouse that Factory International has turned into a kind of blank canvas for big, theatrical ideas. Tonight, the space feels less like an industrial arts hub and more like a forgotten churchyard: mossy rocks scattered across the stage, rusted-looking railings, fabric and ropes hanging […]

LIVE REVIEW – THE LAST DINNER PARTY: AVIVA STUDIOS – 26/11/2025

LIVE REVIEW – MY BLOODY VALENTINE: AVIVA STUDIOS – 24/11/2025

There are many ways people get excited for a gig, for some it may be that first step into the venue and seeing the stage, for others maybe waking up on the day knowing there is a gig that night, for me, however, it was when a pair of luminous foam earplugs were plonked in […]
  A dozen jackets hang suspended on a stage shrouded in dry ice while eerie music drones. It could be a modern gallery’s art exhibition. If anyone entering Aviva Studios prior to curtain call did not realise in advance, ‘Hamlet Hail to the Thief’ is by no means a standard Shakespearean production. Instead, it is […]

LIVE REVIEW – HAMLET HAIL TO THE THIEF: AVIVA STUDIOS – 07/05/2025