Good point regarding the police. They're in no position to lecture others on stopping drug business given their epic fail.
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Fabric to close due to drug issues
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Good point regarding the police. They're in no position to lecture others on stopping drug business given their epic fail.
spring hall convert
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They can't even stop drugs getting into prisons.
spring hall convert
Well-known member
I'd be interested to know what your real beef is because this sentence is horseshit. There's worse clubs for what you're talking about in Brighton.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...abric-close-permanently-licence-revoked-drugs
“Staff intervention and security was grossly inadequate in light of the overwhelming evidence that it was abundantly obvious that patrons in the club were on drugs and manifesting symptoms showing that they were.
“This included sweating, glazed red eyes and staring into space, and people asking for help.”
Much like Albion fans before the Newcastle match.
“Staff intervention and security was grossly inadequate in light of the overwhelming evidence that it was abundantly obvious that patrons in the club were on drugs and manifesting symptoms showing that they were.
“This included sweating, glazed red eyes and staring into space, and people asking for help.”
Much like Albion fans before the Newcastle match.
It's just the Bremainers moaning, apparently
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/louise-mensch-brexit-fabric_uk_57cff2f5e4b0d45ff8706b1c
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/louise-mensch-brexit-fabric_uk_57cff2f5e4b0d45ff8706b1c
Albion Dan
Banned
What an utter crock of garbage
Not sure what type of drugs people take at Fabric, bit of everything? Anyway, my point is that coke is everywhere at the moment, absolutely everywehere. Schoolkids are buying it with their pocket money and 4 hours at Sainsbury's on a saturday job. Brighton and London are awash with the stuff. My theory is because booze is getting extortionate and coke is getting cheaper. 4 people could between them, spend 200 quid on a night on the booze. They can spend 50-100 quid between them and stay mashed off their bongos until 10am the next day.
Fabric is probably being closed and sold off so Suaudi's or Chinamen can build on it.
Fabric is probably being closed and sold off so Suaudi's or Chinamen can build on it.
BBassic
I changed this.
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I was thinking the same thing. Hell, West Street at the weekend is likely equally full of people taking drugs except it's far more likely to be coke which, in my experience, turns people into tossers instead of gurning happy types.
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
I also don't believe this, absolute troll. Nobody who's into the clubbing scene, whatever their favoured genre, would use the language you've used. "People very ill", who says that!!!
As has been said, security are walking past the seats/beds outside room two every 5 minutes at most, no way are they letting people openly have sex there. In about 15ish visits over the last 5 years I've been offered drugs twice and the one time I didn't have my own it was impossible to score. I have seen plenty of people busted and kicked out though.
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Really? It's the tamest, safest club I've been to in London. SE1, now there was a club - full of muggers, gangs, violence and corruption!
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
I'm still tying to digest it all to be honest, I think part of me hopes there will be an appeal and it'll get overturned, however unlikely that is.
One thing is for sure, nothing is going to replace Fabric on the London music scene. Whatever you thought of the club, you have to admire that they stuck to their music policy for all these years and continued to support up and coming artists before they make it big. That support is now gone and won't be replaced because there are no other promoters operating on a weekly basis, other than The Gallery but that's really in it's own niche. The monthly promotions can't get away with booking smaller artists because they need the names on flyers to get people through the door. Terry Francis and Craig Richards were undoubtedly brilliant at programming line-ups and finding the best new talent.
Other venues have opened and put on decent nights in the last few years but they're probably too small to be a mainstay of the house/techno/DnB/Bass scenes like Fabric. I love the LWE promotions but they're big one off events.
Studio Spaces, Studio 338, XOYO and The Steelyard have all put on decent nights but most of their bookings are already attached to other promotions and won't have the scope to be as diverse as Fabric. Fabric did. Studio 338 burning down a couple of weeks ago is another big blow as they have put some great events this summer.
On the wider issue of clubs closing and the attitude of the police and local councils it very much reminds me of the Arches in Glasgow. This is a brilliant article on how misunderstood the clubbing and electronic music scene is. "Cultural vandalism", just about sums it up.
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2497
One thing is for sure, nothing is going to replace Fabric on the London music scene. Whatever you thought of the club, you have to admire that they stuck to their music policy for all these years and continued to support up and coming artists before they make it big. That support is now gone and won't be replaced because there are no other promoters operating on a weekly basis, other than The Gallery but that's really in it's own niche. The monthly promotions can't get away with booking smaller artists because they need the names on flyers to get people through the door. Terry Francis and Craig Richards were undoubtedly brilliant at programming line-ups and finding the best new talent.
Other venues have opened and put on decent nights in the last few years but they're probably too small to be a mainstay of the house/techno/DnB/Bass scenes like Fabric. I love the LWE promotions but they're big one off events.
Studio Spaces, Studio 338, XOYO and The Steelyard have all put on decent nights but most of their bookings are already attached to other promotions and won't have the scope to be as diverse as Fabric. Fabric did. Studio 338 burning down a couple of weeks ago is another big blow as they have put some great events this summer.
On the wider issue of clubs closing and the attitude of the police and local councils it very much reminds me of the Arches in Glasgow. This is a brilliant article on how misunderstood the clubbing and electronic music scene is. "Cultural vandalism", just about sums it up.
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2497
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
Sampled from a 90s hip hop track, and used in a different context!!
Paris
Well-known member
A few years back i went to Cable on a number of occasions. Thought that place had potential. Sadly it wasn't open long enough to build a larger following. Enjoyed the End as well. Though going out for a ciggy was a bit of a mission
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
A few years back i went to Cable on a number of occasions. Thought that place had potential. Sadly it wasn't open long enough to build a larger following. Enjoyed the End as well. Though going out for a ciggy was a bit of a mission
Cable was a brilliant club, I always thought the sound in the main room was a bit like Fabric where you're not just listening to it - it completely envelops you!
sydney
tinky ****in winky
yeah ...naah ...yeah ...nah.....it's closing cos they wan't to develop it .....the use of drugs tag just ratifies the closure /decision.........ravers will continue to rave , the more underground it goes , the more appealing it becomes and the less easy to control.
You don't half talk a load of old flannel.
sydney
tinky ****in winky
don't he just......i wanna know where he gets his bugle from.....mind you 50 quids worth of flippers could do some damage
You don't believe London or Brighton are experiencing a flush of coke ATM? Then it is you sir who spout the flannel .