When people like started putting on things that they loved, that’s when the 1 in 12 started to work. Anton Shaw I’m very fond of the club. I think it always has been a great space. It’s been a great space for people to come together to explore what it is that they want to be doing, and actually have the chance to put that in the into action. If you’ve got an idea and wanting to give it a go, you could always find a few people who would just go “Yeah, go on, then let’s give it a go.” Lucy Llewellen And there’s also an imagination there and a way of supporting and nurturing like-minded projects and individuals. Everyone is working together, pulling everyone up. And I suppose that’s the essence of DIY. Michael McKeegan There was that sort of sense of community. There was the sense of everyone who works here, everyone who has something to do with this place, really does love this place, and it means a lot to everyone … underneath all the chaos and two drunk weirdos, there’s a sense of community. Ellie Weston You know, you could still, at that point, just about afford to live on the dole, and sometimes you might even get an extra tenner a week if you said you were doing something creative. And there was a whole community of people who were squatting, who were sort of doing different creative things, who were just sort of out of the mainstream, DIY, and we were part of that as well, because we were just sort of really determined to make it in music, and we’d sort of dropped out of getting jobs really, because we just really wanted to focus on being musicians, and so being part of a wider community of people who were also in that world was really, really important. Jenny Harris If you want to do things, you can actually do it yourself, and it’s really useful to have a space where you can have like-minded people who feel the same way as you. And that is what I would say to people … try and get a space together, no matter how small it is, where you can meet up and talk and plan and have a bit of safety as well. Cameron Skinner
PART TWO: A PLACE OF COMMUNITY
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