For me it’s seeing Doom there you know, a band I’ve been aware of forever and here they were, very much on their own turf and the heckling was amazing. That happened later when I saw some American bands start being heckled and the first 10 minutes was quite hostile because they really thought that the fight was going to break out and they kind of get ready and then they realize that it’s expected and that they can relax. Jeremie Cauchois The jukebox was great, and later on, we, when we were desperately trying to make money, me and Matt decided to have these jukebox, we just sat down and tried to think of silly events for the regulars. And we had these Jukebox Jury nights where people brought in their own singles … it just seemed friendly and, and open enough for me to shuffle in and be a part of the furniture really, very, very easily. Noel Batstone And I remember Pete Chapman, who’s Sean’s dad from the kids club, coming up the fire escape up to the gig floor where we’re having, like, a bit of a party. And he came up dressed as Santa and it was just an absolute ridiculous day, because Sean just shouted out, ‘That’s not Santa Claus. That’s my dad!” Kaya Cullerton I was just remembering about dancing on the tables after a meal (laughs), and I think there’d been some wine drunk, and I was a bit too tall, and so, so what happened was I stood on the tables, and because my head was reached the ceiling, I removed the ceiling (laughs). Just carried on dancing with my head through the ceiling. Cathy (Peasant Collective) And, and I remember loads of people dancing, but everyone was like dancing, dancing, dancing. And it was brilliant, because, you know, as much as most of us enjoy, sort of, boys clenching other sweaty boys and jumping around, I do quite like a dance. Tommy One of the things that really stands out, and it still makes my skin tingle now, is we all had this agreement that because we were there all night and the dawn was gonna come, that we would go down and pull the drapes off of the windows as the dawn came up, and every single floor played Sunrise, and everybody all sang along. And it was so brilliant. It were really lovely. Emma Marshall Memorable experiences of the 1in 12! Playing the judge in the Haymarket incident because I had never acted before. I’d never been on a stage before because I’m a writer, don’t do bands. It was on May the 1st 1997 the day that the Tories fell. So, rather than celebrating Tony Blair being a being elected, or whatever, you
know, the Labour Party being elected, we were watching Tory after Tory ... being humiliated over and over again, with us dancing on the tables, and occasionally get people going “Yeah, it’s an election, raaah!” So that was one of the most memorable ones, yeah, seeing a Tory government who’d committed all manner of wrongs to the north of England, being utterly humiliated, and then being in a really cool play with some nice people. Richard Cubesville The night when Labour got in in 1997 and we were all kind of kids who lived under the Tories for however many years it was, and Chumbawamba played. And at the time, Chumbawamba were quite a big band. They were like on Top of the Pops and stuff in 1997 and they played an absolutely storming gig, and then the club just opened afterwards, and people watched the telly, watching the results coming in, and we were cheering when the Tories were losing seats all over the place. And it was, I mean, I woke up on someone’s carpet who I didn’t even know. Anton Shaw We used to do themed cocktail nights, and we’d decorate the whole of the gig floor so it was unrecognisable. Each time it had a theme. We’d be pouring Flaming Lamborghinis standing on the bar … But I think the biggest memory that I’ve got is my first marriage. We had our wedding reception at the 1 in 12, and it was when the snooker table was still in existence, and so all of the skylights on the top floor were all blocked off. And the only way you could get lighting, the way that they got people to pay for the pool table is they had a timed light that used to have to put 50p in. So all of my family was sat down for a sit down meal. And every 10 or 15 minutes we were having to go “Has anyone got 50p to put in the light?” So, yeah, that that whole night was quite memorable. Sally Stone And then different people putting on different events, like, I was running a night called Docks and Frocks, and we were trying to make it distinct, really, from the hardcore gigs. So we put cargo nets up and fairy lights and lots of sort of tinfoil stars and things ... And then when the Stimulations did rave nights, I think they did that over three floors, and they decorate the whole place out. Sarah MacHenry Some of the big meals - we used to do these big meals. I can remember a big Christmas meal where loads of folk came over from Belgium ... they did this “Abba” night at the 1 in 12 Club. And the place was just logged in. There was a lot of drinking, a lot of drugs taken, and everyone was just stuck dancing all, you know, all night long, to the 70s disco, which was the first time for me, I’d never even admit to doing that kind of thing. But yeah, that was a brilliant night. Cameron Skinner
PART THREE: A PLACE OF CREATIVITY
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