We are a members’ club, so everybody who pays their membership owns the building and there’s no leaders, there’s no ownership, everybody owns it, so it’s collectively run basically. Gary Cavanagh Look everybody who is a member has an equal part to say and hopefully, the opportunity to contribute to the club and to have an equal voice in how it’s run and what we do. Now that don’t always work in practice, because some people do more stuff than others, whether that’s by convenience, by choice, or situation or skills or whatever. But the key thing is, nobody has a bigger voice than anybody else. Jon Gregson It’s about camaraderie … just being around those people and organising with those people, and having fun with those people, and having some tears with those people as well. Rob Kito What the 1 in 12 is, was the thing that (Thatcher) was trying to get rid of, you know, through the miner’s strike. You know, you can’t have too solid communities because that flies in the face of everybody being a rugged individualist, you know, and the 1 in 12 was that kind of place. Tony Shephard It was like a real family. You had pockets over there that got on, pockets over here that got on, and people that didn’t like those ones over there, but we were all under the shared goal of the club. Paula Stone There’s like a family tree of bands from the club, because it was Willi Beckett and members of other bands that played the club regularly, like John from Requiem, Chris from Loud went on to New Model Army. And yeah, it was just … once you’re in that kind of scene. It’s a bit like the mafia. It’s hard to get out, because you’re continually like sharing band members. Jonathan Lorrimer
PART TWO: A PLACE OF COMMUNITY
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