..and from our late teens to 30s, a youth movement all over the nation, inspired partly by the punk DIY ethic,
spontaneously established a network of local anti corporate music collectives, projects and free festivals.
The objective being to inspire teenagers to learn to play instruments, and find underused facilities to use as regular venues to gig, party, and express themselves....

My part of the south west flourished successfully with the "Sheep Worrying" collective...

Of course, like all great idealistic movements, it shone bright, then gradually dimmed, and extinguished
for various obvious economic & political reasons... plus we all got older, and ended up with jobs 'n' families... [in sadder individual cases, burnt out and dead...]