I guess no place is truly a safe space. I guess braver space is probably a better term … It’s not always been like the most comfortable of evenings, for whatever reason, whether that’s been a hard conversation, or whether you’ve had to ask somebody to leave because the values went against the club’s, but yeah, I think it tries and the collective tries. But you can’t always 100% guarantee that. Erik Rattus I mean, tolerance is a huge thing, because there were times when you really, really disagreed with people, I mean, genuinely disagreed with people and you just have to thrash it out. Well, there’s very little opportunity to do that nowadays ... You had to keep going. You had to just, you had to listen to everyone’s side, and you had to accept that there was a very different viewpoint and I think that certainly put me in good stead … I think it’s just a really simple message of working together, working with people. It makes a difference, because you find a common ground, and you work your way through it. Heather Allan It’s not all like agreement. Meetings weren’t everybody with the same idea and agreeing about stuff. Sorry, but you know, like discussions around what bar stewards are getting paid, whether they should be paid, whether we should be taking any money out of the cafe for any of our time, stuff like that … And I do remember people being told, “Right, that’s not appropriate. You’re not welcome here”, or “You’re not allowed here for a little while. You think that through”, you know? Julia I was a big fan, an advocate of when the Rave Collective started … they would have sound systems on all three floors, and it would just be a whole bunch of people who had never been to the 1 in 12 club before, and you could see them going around, just kind of being curious about what this place was. I kind of thought that was a good thing. But of all the kind of non punk things that was brought to the club, that was the one that was most controversial, and kind of caused the most discussion in Sunday meetings, because there was kind of those worries about drugs and worries that that would kind of have an impact on the license and the club could lose its license. Richard Claxton
PART ONE: A PLACE OF RESISTANCE
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