The venue and theatre makers

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The theatre came first. A newspaper agenda advertised Puinpaleis by Paleis Toneel Theater at Duinpaleis, Rochussenstraat 169, for 5 February 1989¹. Later that year, a separate theatre record identifies Erik-Ward Geerlings' group De Pragmatici with Het obscene eekhoorntje². In the music-venue years, Arthur Sauer was among the performers listed at Dodorama in October 1995³.

The people who made the venue appear on the same terms. Lukas Simonis was music programmer of Dodorama from 1995, and then of WORM⁴. Together with Henk Bakker he set up WORM Sound Studios in the building, a venture dated to 2001, though the record notes it may still have been taking shape into 2002⁵. Shop and stage were one room: the record racks and bins stood on wheels and were rolled aside before each gig⁶. On paper the shop was kept apart, and the record has Mariëtte Groot as its owner⁷, though that rests on a single account and appears here as probable. When WORM became a foundation, its first board chairman appears to have been Jeroen Chabot, recruited by Hajo Doorn, Mariëtte Groot and Hans Beekmans (again on one recollection, so held as probable); the board met in the building itself⁸.

The list stops there, and every row must stay limited to a role documented in public sources. Richard Foster's work for WORM, for example, is recorded only in present-day profiles, and nothing held places him at the corner in the Rochussenstraat years, so it is not presented here as a role at the corner.