One thing about all that anarcho-punk stuff was it brought a lot of different people together … Didn’t matter on your background, you know, even though there was a bit of, you know, inverted snobbery, if you weren’t that working class hero of Thorpe Edge Estate, but basically one thing it did with the activism is having people from different backgrounds really mixed together, that probably wouldn’t normally. Andy Farrow A dance collective called Simulations started doing all night dance events once a month. You know, Simulations, they became Stimulations, or I might’ve got that the wrong way around. There’s also Scruffs and Snobs that there was a couple of different sort of dance collectives, and that was a big thing. The club gave over control of the building to them. There was a lot of people who weren’t really happy with that, but what that did do is swelled our membership by 1000s. Gordon Mackintosh For the first time ever we had estate lads coming into the club, yeah, off of Swainhouse Estate. These were proper working class lads. They didn’t know what the hell they were walking into, to be quite honest. But they were fascinated… They’d never encountered anything that worked like kind of collectively like that. And I always take that away as something I were really pleased about, you know, we’d managed to create something that kind of working class lads came into and actually went, “Wow, this is good.” Emma Marshal l
PART TWO: A PLACE OF COMMUNITY
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