Its resurgence as a rock and pop venue over the last few years has been a gift in itself, and timely, especially given that Edinburgh was left with no dedicated large-scale venue of this kind in the city centre after the closure of the nearby Picture House in 2013.
"You can't get bank funding and why would any private individual put their money into building a large-scale venue when the risks are so great that your licence can be removed for events sometimes out of your control?" says Leslie.
MIF chairman Tom Bloxham said The Factory would be "a new kind of large-scale venue comparable in scale to London's Coliseum connected to one side of a Tate Modern Turbine Hall-type structure".
In a widely expected deal that would alter the power dynamics within the music industry, Live Nation and Ticketmaster Entertainment, two companies with dominant positions in ticketing, artist management and large-scale concert venues, proposed Tuesday morning to merge in an all-stock transaction.
The program has been called a counterpoint to the Biennale of Sydney and the only large-scale multi-venue exhibition series in Sydney to focus solely on contemporary Australian art.
"Our whole mission," Ms. Robertson added, "was to rescue this strangely dilapidated Armory building and create a large-scale cultural venue that would be a wonderful fit for a variety of visions from artists like those from the R.S.C".
It transpired that they'd spent the day, and a sizable chunk of the evening, at Printworks, the large-scale daytime venue that sits in Canada Water with a massive branch of Decathlon for company, and they seemed to have had a very jolly time of it indeed.
Airports, distilleries, large-scale distributors, and venues serving sacramental wine were excluded from our analysis, leaving 1,964 outlets identified by their corresponding land parcel.
The dance was Sylphides, which he and his creative partner Cecilia Bengolea were performing at Dia:Beacon, a stunning large-scale contemporary art venue in the Hudson Valley.
