The group made an album, toured shows within disability rights festivals in the UK and Europe and started to attract interest within the arts and disability worlds. Further groups were set up in the model of this 'Original Company' with a theatre and a music practitioner as what we used to call 'tutors', and a training scheme was launched to raise skills levels on and backstage.

Whilst away on tour in Belgium, on a night off, the 'Original Company' was not allowed in to a nightclub in the hotel where they were staying. The artists were angry – they decided to turn this into a force for change by creating a place where people with a learning disability could go to party, to meet friends and, even better, to see performances by people like them.