Right from the early days, it was political. You know, there was always people from the 1 in 12 Club organising for whatever it was, animal rights, hunt sabs, CND and Anti-Fascist action, anti-apartheid, you name it. There was always something going on. Dave Gropper When you have marginalized communities that don’t feel safe in the mainstream, they need a place to be able to gather, they need a place to be able to express their ideas, where they know they are not going to be persecuted for their ideas and their beliefs. Steve Von Till We chased the skinheads out of gigs. We had zero tolerance for it. Gordon Mackintosh We had problems with Nazis in Bradford … And I think the one time was when we were severely getting threatened and they were actually coming on one night to attack the building. And I think, you know, quite a lot of members came out to defend the building, you know, and that created a lot of solidarity. Nick Royles I remember we were getting a lot of phone calls at that time saying that people were gonna kill us. And, you know, it was very shocking … I didn’t fit the sort of profile, and so I wasn’t as identifiable as some other people that were coming and going from the club. And so when you started getting phone calls saying, like, we’re gonna kill you, we’re gonna smack you, we’re gonna burn the place down … it was really tense and quite intense, you know, like, it was just not a pleasant time at all in the club’s history. Heather Allan I think it was the National Front had called for a demo in Bradford and a lot of people organised from the 1 in 12 and we all turned up en masse because the NF had just asked for people to turn up in the square in Bradford and demonstrate. And so we counter demonstrated and there were just, there were a few lone Nazis that turned up, but other than that, you know, just the swell of people that came out, from the Asian community as well, a lot came out. And to be honest, you know, that was a great, great feeling. Nick Royles
PART ONE: A PLACE OF RESISTANCE
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