audiences – if the context changes – the vibe never, ever does. I mean..... we did the Ryder Cup last year!! We were living in Newport for nearly 3 weeks underneath that big red Steel Wave sculpture and it was brilliant because there were people who would never ordinarily experience what we do – they’re not from London – they’d never go to a festival, and they were there and loving it – and that for me is what it’s all about.
It’s strange because you get this sense in the underground sometimes of people wanting it to remain this kind of closed esoteric circle with the perpetual fear of ‘selling out’ hanging over anyone who wants to break out. Is that just bullshit. Should we be trying to blow a hole in mainstream consciousness. Absolutely. Why shouldn’t we?? Why
should we just sit around and talk amongst ourselves? Especially when we all know what we’re saying and we all agree with it. Surely we should be out there trying to spread the message to people who may not instinctively agree with it, until they’re on board too. The last thing we need is to become an ever decreasing circle of self involvement – we need to spread things right out and have enough conviction in what we do to create that conviction in others. And hopefully help unlock some of their own buried creativity in the process. We totally believe in what we do and that is an incredibly positive force in itself to keep pushing understanding and inclusion. How did you even end up entering the Meanwhile competition to renew the docks. It was an odd one. It all started with an idea