The club definitely has gone in waves. And I said before that I think I was part of a second wave of people that came in. I think because the club can be anything anyone wants it to be. As long as they’re prepared to work. There’s a methodology. I think that’s what the club is for me, and the methodology is, you can call it anarchist, or you can call it Do It Yourself, or you can call it democracy. But essentially you can do what you want, as long as you’re respectful of other people, you get some kind of democratic permission, and that you’re accountable. Matt Hannan And there was always a punk crowd. I think there was, after a few years of giving it your all, it always needed new blood. And in between that new blood, it would get quite run down, which was a shame. But the really great thing is that someone would always come and regenerate it again. Somebody would see that space as their own. Alice Nutter That space where people can come, where they can mix, where they can, you know, kind of be joyful, where they can feel safe, you know. And they can learn about things that they weren’t necessarily interested in before or knew about before… I suspect it plays that sort of role for each wave that comes in ... you know, you’d have your stalwarts, some of those people are still around, but different waves of people coming in and out of the club. Anika Easy Different people have come in who’ve got different priorities, different interests, they’ve brought different things into it. And, you know, I always hope that underneath all of those changes, there’s always this thing of we all believe the same thing about how we should behave with each other, about the way
PART THREE: A PLACE OF CREATIVITY
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