Josh Evans, a sound engineer who is part of the team trying to raise the money needed to buy the site, said he could not imagine the area without it.<\/p>\n
“I started going there when I was a teenager pretty much every Friday or Saturday and watching live local bands and that really inspired me to pick up a guitar, but also to get into live events and working as a sound engineer, which is what I do now,” he said.<\/p>\n
Evans is hoping for some celebrity endorsements as part of his campaign.<\/p>\n
“If you look at our Instagram, we’re following all the Joneses, because when I was doing some research, Alex Jones, Gethin Jones, Steve Jones, they all started out presenting here,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I think it would be a total loss [for the venue to close].<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot still going on there. There’s a community sharing shop. where people from disadvantaged backgrounds can come and, you know, not just get some of the stuff that they need, but also create friendships and be a part of something.<\/p>\n
“If we took on the building, I’d like to think we would carry that through, but also give a place for creativity again, a place for performers and artists to come and showcase and to learn and to inspire but also be inspired.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Evans, a sound engineer who is part of the team trying to raise the money needed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-587570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}