It has been my intention for a while to write a story based in the now abandoned Gaiety cinema on City Road in Cardiff. Up until its closure it was renamed 'Spin' and turned into a bowling alley/nighclub affair - here is an excellent webpage giving a history of the buildings and pictures taken in 2011 when the place was well and truly abandoned.
One of the girls from the photographic course I was on late last year tried to gain access to the building as it now is, but found it full of squatters who didn't really want anyone intruding, be it for artistic purposes or not. And this got me thinking...
Why not write a story based around a community ensconced in one such abandoned building, purposely cutting themselves off from the world outside? The idea rattled round my head for a few months and ideas of how to approach it formulated. But it never really made it onto paper. Or even virtual paper.
Then, as the approach I had decided upon would be diaristic, why not publish it as blog entries? After all, Dickens published his work in journals and such. Not that I am claiming to be a Dickens by any stretch of the imagination.
Anyway, nothing ventured and all that... here is a link to The Gaiety.
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