I seem to remember being in the members bar, and there was something going on, and someone I knew had been trying to get in, but couldn’t get attention. They were ringing the bell downstairs. No one would go, but they wanted to get in. And so I remember seeing this head appear through the window. They’d shimmied it up the drain pipe and started climbing through the window to get into the gig. Derek Simmonds I mean, it was quite riotous. I mean, we did get banned, actually, from one time there because there was a lot of glue sniffing went on. Andy Farrow Probably 10 or 12 years ago, Fucked Up, played and that was pretty memorable, because I remember the NME came down to the club… and a load of people from the club were hiding backstage when Fucked Up were playing, and they came out in, like, it was incredible, like a cardboard box Trojan horse, like structure, and it just said, ‘NME Out Of Our Scene’. And then some other people were, like, smashing this Trojan horse with both bats … I remember thinking, I’m kind of glad that people are still doing shit like that when I’ve got too old to do it. Paula Stone And back then, there was loads of opium poppies that used to grow wild, and you could bleed them, to get opium out of them. And these two coppers are straight over to me, going “Well, right? People planted opium poppies.” And I was just, “You don’t need to plant them. They just seed themselves.” Which I don’t think was the answer they were really wanting. Yeah, I can remember that they went away. I found that quite funny. Cameron Skinner I have happy memories, of all sorts of lunatic behaviour. The May Day 98 one, God Almighty! That’s where somebody invented crate surfing. Because, you know, in in the library, you’ve got that big roof space. So somebody came up with crate surfing, which is … it’s music playing, usually, kind of some sort of surf music. And, God, sometimes I just go, dear God, what did we do? Piling crates, empty beer crates, on top of one another, to the extent sometimes where you had to use the ladders to get on top and then surf on it for a minute. I think somebody, might be Mark Wilson, got to about 10 crates or something. Some of the massive, stupid stuff. I loathe the conga. You will never catch me doing the conga. I was at the front of the conga on a certain night in April in 2013 going around the pool table going [waves hands around]. Jon Gregson
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