It’s Thursday night in The Button Factory and a diverse crowd is beginning to assemble inside. There’s the fluoro club kids, the art school scenesters, old punks in patched up biker jackets, and a peculiar looking man standing alone wearing a USSR military style visor cap with a fluffy pink feather boa adorning his shoulders.

The producer of ‘Riot Days by Pussy Riot Theatre’ , Alexander Cheparukhin steps onto the stage to introduce tonight's show and the horde is temporarily united in silence, until an explosion of unintelligible whooping breaks the sound barrier as Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina stomps out.

It’s been two years since Maria Alyokhina and Nadya Tolokno were freed from a Siberian high security prison after being arrested for performing their 40 second ‘punk prayer’ in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The prayer, which went something like “Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Chase Putin Out” earned Pussy Riot worldwide acclaim and a media storm ensured their anti Putin, anti Church message stayed firmly in the headlines.