Oh I see. Sorry , YOU wanted to be the big man in the know. Bugle. Flippers. Brilliant. Mashed off his mittens on ecstasy pipes.
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Fabric to close due to drug issues
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Oh I see. Sorry , YOU wanted to be the big man in the know. Bugle. Flippers. Brilliant. Mashed off his mittens on ecstasy pipes.
sydney
tinky ****in winky
there really is no need for that ...is there...xx
Bore off.
No different to how it's always been. I'm sure you are in the know though.
sydney
tinky ****in winky
hmmmm....ok sausage.
Not really, just observations. I avoid people who do coke as they are mostly boring ****wits.
Where are you observing this abundance of cocaine at cheap prices.
I didn't say witnessing but if you can't get hold of a 50 - 60 quid gram of okay cocaine in Brighton, you really don't know what you're talking about.
Neville's Breakfast
Well-known member
Happy to say I don't know what I'm talking about then. Goodness, what a sad, sordid world portrayed on this thread.
It's you who doesn't know what they are talking about to be honest, you haven't got a Scooby. I will leave you to it.
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
As much as I love a lengthy discussion about the price of cocaine, it usually only happens late at night after a few lin.................
You get the idea, please we can steer this back on topic
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/fabric-closure-nightclub-prepares-to-appeal-council-decision-to-revoke-licence-a3340256.html
Confirmed that they're going to appeal.
You get the idea, please we can steer this back on topic
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/fabric-closure-nightclub-prepares-to-appeal-council-decision-to-revoke-licence-a3340256.html
Confirmed that they're going to appeal.
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
I've just been reading about the Islington council licensing sub-committee that made the decision. It's made up of three people who vote and the decision wasn't unanimous. It's bonkers that something this culturally significant doesn't get "called in" to a higher level in order to look at the bigger picture.
The committee chair Flora Williamson looks the epitome of your average student politician who wants to save the world, the trees, the animals and eradicate drugs from her lofty position on Islington council. It does make me wonder if the conspiracy theories are wide of the mark and really this decision has been taken by a couple of people who simply don't understand the enormity of what they're doing.
The committee chair Flora Williamson looks the epitome of your average student politician who wants to save the world, the trees, the animals and eradicate drugs from her lofty position on Islington council. It does make me wonder if the conspiracy theories are wide of the mark and really this decision has been taken by a couple of people who simply don't understand the enormity of what they're doing.
wakeytom
New 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
I am sure we must have chatted sheet at some point given that list of clubs sounds like you may be in to a little jungle / dnb? The end now that was a club especially where the 'DJ booth' was. Fabric will be a great loss especially the diversity they put on but currently my two favourites are Fire and I recently visited Phonox for the first time for the headz night.
Whats your name, where you from and what you on
wakeytom
New member
Also whilst we are at it we must ban cake
spring hall convert
Well-known member
Useful idiots, I suspect.
A 'Night Mayor' Is Transforming Amsterdam After Dark
http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2016/01/night-mayor-amsterdam-mirik-milan/433893/
http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2016/01/night-mayor-amsterdam-mirik-milan/433893/
spring hall convert
Well-known member
Wouldn't happen in Germany
http://www.electronicbeats.net/feed/german-law-says-berghain-techno-hedonism-high-culture/
http://www.electronicbeats.net/feed/german-law-says-berghain-techno-hedonism-high-culture/
Whereas, contrast the authorities attitude here. On the same day Fabric was scandalously forced to close
"High culture club: Berghain secures same tax status as Berlin concert venues"
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...tclub-classed-as-culturally-significant-venue
Edit: Doh. Just seen the post above.
"High culture club: Berghain secures same tax status as Berlin concert venues"
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...tclub-classed-as-culturally-significant-venue
Edit: Doh. Just seen the post above.
Colossal Squid
Returning video tapes
The time has come for me to wade into this thread.
I have been to Fabric on over 50 occasions. For a period in the 2000s I was there every weekend doing a full seven hour stint of a Friday or Saturday night, depending on what night I fancied and who was on.
I loved it. I absolutely loved it. And despite the fact that in recent years my visits have become considerably less frequent, due primarily to the fact that I've gotten older and less capable of going all night, I hold Fabric in the same esteem as you might your childhood home. It was a second home for me, outlasting pretty much every home I've enjoyed since that fateful day I finally grew wings and moved out of my parents' house at the age of 22.
Am I gutted to see the demise of this internationally important London super club? More than words can say.
In all of the many visits I made to Fabric since it opened never once was I treated like some druggy wreckhead and I was regularly welcomed as the type of punter the venue thrived upon. I wasn't dealing drugs and nor was I causing trouble. I just loved the music and the soundsystem, along with the excellent atmosphere they managed to foster, catering almost exclusively to people who were genuine fans of the varied electronic music genres curated by Craig Richards and Terry Francis, true artisans of their craft.
Did I see people off their tits? Of course I did. Did I witness people openly selling drugs? Only if I went looking. Were people ploughing into one another on the beds outside Room 2 or in dark corners? I honestly never witnessed anything of the sort.
With the news of Fabric's ultimate demise I was deeply saddened but not even remotely surprised. The disappointing losses in London reflect a wider shift in acceptance and openness over all night super sized rave venues. As one by one clubs like Turnmills, The End and all of the Kings Cross goods yard venues (The Cross, Canvas and The Key) disappeared from the scene it became apparent that the once unstoppable serious nightclub scene was on its last legs. Just look at our own once proud club-friendly city and the sorry state it's in now. Gone are The Zap, Ocean Rooms, Audio, Buddha Lounge and anything resembling a true nightclub from Brighton's previously flagbearing streets. We're left with ugly identikit meatmarkets for drunken Croydon daytrippers.
Partly I believe that the aging ravers of my generation haven't been adequately replaced as today's youth shun the idea of going out to get messy accompanied by a soundtrack of underground house, DnB and electro music, but partly I feel like those in charge haven't had the foresight to protect these venues as the important cultural hubs they should have been recognised as.
The loss of Fabric from London, and the UK's, progressive counterculture is indicative of a country that is increasingly less tolerant of off-script enjoyment. It's an easy target to pick apart just like authorities in the 80s took great pleasure in using disasters like Hillsborough and Heysel to demonise football fans as thuggish meatheads intent on causing trouble in the name of their clubs. We were victims then and we are victims now.
The truth is that drug use has nothing to do with Fabric's closure. There is more than enough supporting evidence to show that the owners were striving to prevent drug dealers from operating in the club, well aware that it was perhaps the biggest threat to the venue's continued existence. In fact Fabric was more than capable of prospering without punters having inside access to class As. The hefty door fee alone should have been enough to have kept it profitable, let alone the bar takings. So the weak excuse used by the council for pulling the plug on what is widely recognised as one of the planet's most important night clubs is nothing sort of shameful.
It's just a painfully transparent Mary Whitehouse "we don't want you here" attitude that has spelled the end for the venue and I truly believe London will suffer for it.
Where now are Europe's trendy young electronic music fans going to head for the kind of legendary London night they'd be recounting in years to come? Let's face it, they're just not going to come to uptight London.
As our country turns its back on Europe and sticks two fingers up at the many liberal freedoms that have helped it prosper, the youth of the continent will quickly realise that the draws of London are no longer what they were, leaving them to instead head for Germany, the Netherlands and even the Balkan and Baltic states as destinations happy to pander to their desire to enjoy all night electronic music fuelled hedonism.
The end of Fabric isn't just the end of an era for London, it's the end of a prosperous period keeping Britain on the map. Without Fabric, and without anything even close to it, we just don't have anything to offer young party seeking folk of our own nation, let alone those of others.
It's a dark day that I truly believe the city, and our country, will regret
I have been to Fabric on over 50 occasions. For a period in the 2000s I was there every weekend doing a full seven hour stint of a Friday or Saturday night, depending on what night I fancied and who was on.
I loved it. I absolutely loved it. And despite the fact that in recent years my visits have become considerably less frequent, due primarily to the fact that I've gotten older and less capable of going all night, I hold Fabric in the same esteem as you might your childhood home. It was a second home for me, outlasting pretty much every home I've enjoyed since that fateful day I finally grew wings and moved out of my parents' house at the age of 22.
Am I gutted to see the demise of this internationally important London super club? More than words can say.
In all of the many visits I made to Fabric since it opened never once was I treated like some druggy wreckhead and I was regularly welcomed as the type of punter the venue thrived upon. I wasn't dealing drugs and nor was I causing trouble. I just loved the music and the soundsystem, along with the excellent atmosphere they managed to foster, catering almost exclusively to people who were genuine fans of the varied electronic music genres curated by Craig Richards and Terry Francis, true artisans of their craft.
Did I see people off their tits? Of course I did. Did I witness people openly selling drugs? Only if I went looking. Were people ploughing into one another on the beds outside Room 2 or in dark corners? I honestly never witnessed anything of the sort.
With the news of Fabric's ultimate demise I was deeply saddened but not even remotely surprised. The disappointing losses in London reflect a wider shift in acceptance and openness over all night super sized rave venues. As one by one clubs like Turnmills, The End and all of the Kings Cross goods yard venues (The Cross, Canvas and The Key) disappeared from the scene it became apparent that the once unstoppable serious nightclub scene was on its last legs. Just look at our own once proud club-friendly city and the sorry state it's in now. Gone are The Zap, Ocean Rooms, Audio, Buddha Lounge and anything resembling a true nightclub from Brighton's previously flagbearing streets. We're left with ugly identikit meatmarkets for drunken Croydon daytrippers.
Partly I believe that the aging ravers of my generation haven't been adequately replaced as today's youth shun the idea of going out to get messy accompanied by a soundtrack of underground house, DnB and electro music, but partly I feel like those in charge haven't had the foresight to protect these venues as the important cultural hubs they should have been recognised as.
The loss of Fabric from London, and the UK's, progressive counterculture is indicative of a country that is increasingly less tolerant of off-script enjoyment. It's an easy target to pick apart just like authorities in the 80s took great pleasure in using disasters like Hillsborough and Heysel to demonise football fans as thuggish meatheads intent on causing trouble in the name of their clubs. We were victims then and we are victims now.
The truth is that drug use has nothing to do with Fabric's closure. There is more than enough supporting evidence to show that the owners were striving to prevent drug dealers from operating in the club, well aware that it was perhaps the biggest threat to the venue's continued existence. In fact Fabric was more than capable of prospering without punters having inside access to class As. The hefty door fee alone should have been enough to have kept it profitable, let alone the bar takings. So the weak excuse used by the council for pulling the plug on what is widely recognised as one of the planet's most important night clubs is nothing sort of shameful.
It's just a painfully transparent Mary Whitehouse "we don't want you here" attitude that has spelled the end for the venue and I truly believe London will suffer for it.
Where now are Europe's trendy young electronic music fans going to head for the kind of legendary London night they'd be recounting in years to come? Let's face it, they're just not going to come to uptight London.
As our country turns its back on Europe and sticks two fingers up at the many liberal freedoms that have helped it prosper, the youth of the continent will quickly realise that the draws of London are no longer what they were, leaving them to instead head for Germany, the Netherlands and even the Balkan and Baltic states as destinations happy to pander to their desire to enjoy all night electronic music fuelled hedonism.
The end of Fabric isn't just the end of an era for London, it's the end of a prosperous period keeping Britain on the map. Without Fabric, and without anything even close to it, we just don't have anything to offer young party seeking folk of our own nation, let alone those of others.
It's a dark day that I truly believe the city, and our country, will regret
sydney
tinky ****in winky
although i agree wholeheartedly with your post [MENTION=28861]COL[/MENTION]losalsquid.....you will be largely wasting your time here......trying to explain the elevation and mateship of the scene is pointless unless it's been done , party minded kids will piss off and spend their money in croatia these days whilst london caters for the middle class arse bandits...less trouble , more money... and that is not a slight on gays in general ....more the middle class , married , closet dwellers that rule the roost....imho only of course.....cheers bud....