I do remember seeing Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear. And I remember kind of really feeling that sense of that Riot Grrrl energy, and being really excited by it ... And I remember they used to have a really great veggie kitchen, you know, like you’d be able to get veggie burger and chips and things like that. Emma Adams This year, I went to a gig in January this year to see some young jazz bands, two from Leeds and one, I think one might have been Manchester, the local band called Apollo House. And I’d been told to see them before, and I was so down after a horrble Christmas, New Year, and I felt depressed and cold and whatever. And that just, was a breath of fresh air, it just blew all the weight off my shoulders away and I was just knocked out by the musicianship, the skill of these people, the atmosphere, and it’s still the best gig so far that I’ve seen this year. That’s what the club means to me. It’s like when I get that ripple up my spine when I first see a band that by third number I’m going, “I fucking love these, these are great”. Gary Cavanagh The band were called Spodni Pradlo. I just remember everyone was like dancing and it was like such lovely, such lovely vibes. And I don’t think I realised like at the time, like how much that was like the passing of an era. Beth Atack I think going to some of the early concerts, sort of like Rose and Heresy played … and I think the 10-year anniversary of the 1 in 12 Club, that was actually held at Bradford University and it featured The Wedding Present and Chumbawumba That was a phenomenal event, you know, obviously a sold-out event, that was pretty amazing. Nick Royles There’s an amazing person called Steve [Hyland], and he has been involved with the club for a really long time. And he would put on a punk festival that would happen almost every year, and he had a break for a while, but it sort of restarted again, called Means to an End. And my best memories of the club are from those festivals. And it really like shone a light on Bradford. And people from all across the UK and abroad as well would come to Bradford for this sort of two/three-day festival, usually in October every year. And it was such an amazing experience, watching bands, spending time with friends from all over the country. Laura
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