London's Fabric nightclub to permanently close after license is revoked following drugs deaths
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[QUOTE]Islington council said club had failed to stop people buying and taking illegal drugs on its premises, after deaths of two teenagers in recent months[/QUOTE]
[url]https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/07/london-nightclub-fabric-close-permanently-licence-revoked-drugs?cmp=oth_b-aplnews_d-2[/url]
Seems a bit silly closing down a club for something that can't really be helped, people will always find ways of sneaking drugs into clubs and the club isn't exactly going to ruin peoples nights by having bouncers go around the floor constantly strip searching everyone.
It's like banning Windows because Microsoft "failed" to stop people getting viruses, people will still get viruses no matter how secure Microsoft makes their OS.
Edit: You shouldn't punish the many because of the few stupid/ignorant.
Shutting down a club for this reason is stupid. Clubs already do search people quite a bit. Although... some are much more lenient / turn a blind eye then others.
Had a case like this at a dingy club near my house. Aparrently a few years back it got shut down after people used it for exchanging drugs. Only difference what this one was the managers apparently knew what was going on yet turned a blind eye.
rest in peace fabric :cry:
Dumb move, this was the last true 'raving' club in London. Better education would have helped prevent those deaths, If I recall correctly the last person to die took like 3 grams of MDMA, the guy would have died whether he was inside fabric or not.
Also ten times as many people have died in police custody than in fabric over a ten year span despite fabric holding up to 2000 people each weekend where probably 80% of them are on drugs
Probably the best nightclub in the UK. It's a genuine shame they've closed it. I had some great memories there, always a positive vibe everyone was there to have fun
The staff there have always been brilliant
plastician is not happy
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[QUOTE=Fapplejack;51012823]Had a case like this at a dingy club near my house. Aparrently a few years back it got shut down after people used it for exchanging drugs. Only difference what this one was the managers apparently knew what was going on yet turned a blind eye.[/QUOTE]
Fabric wasn't a dingy little club though, it was a near institution and regularly voted the best club in the world
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Fabric was probably the last stand against the war on nightlife in London
this means the end of the fabriclive cds as well doesnt it?
[QUOTE=Doozle;51012958]Probably the best nightclub in the UK. It's a genuine shame they've closed it. I had some great memories there, always a positive vibe everyone was there to have fun
The staff there have always been brilliant[/QUOTE]
The maddest part is that their drugs policy is so fucking strict.
It's not an easy club to get in to from what I've heard.
But then at the end of the day, as long as it's still illegal for club security to search people's underwear, people are going to get drugs in anywhere piece of cake.
I'm gutted I never got a chance to go...
[editline]7th September 2016[/editline]
This really sucks, but its not the end of London nightlife.
I don't live in London, but I see amazing night there on Facebook constantly that make me regret not wanting to live in London and there's still some really great clubs (Corsica studio, bussey building, village underground, etc.)
Yeah to say drug searches aren't adequate is bullshit. Everyone needs Id even if you're a 60 year old man. They frisk you properly, all of your pockets, fingers in your shoe, finger around the top of your boxers. My friend got a couple of little ones taken from her bra.
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People get drugs into prisons, people are going to get drugs into clubs
[QUOTE=Avvy;51013282][media]https://twitter.com/seb_wheeler_/status/773235861198626821[/media]
fucking lol[/QUOTE]
playing splittercore instantly kills everyone in the club, this is a well established fact
Legalize drugs, problem solved.
[QUOTE=Doozle;51013259]Yeah to say drug searches aren't adequate is bullshit. Everyone needs Id even if you're a 60 year old man. They frisk you properly, all of your pockets, fingers in your shoe, finger around the top of your boxers. My friend got a couple of little ones taken from her bra.
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Fabric was insanely strict, yeah.
The really fucking dumb thing, is that Fabric's search and seize policy was [b]developed with the police, and the police used Fabric as an example of good policy for other clubs.[/b]
[url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/fabric-closed-shut-down-appeal-reopen-campaign-operation-lenor-and-the-real-reason-fabric-was-shut-a7229541.html]this is fucking shit[/url]
[quote]Exclusive: New documents obtained through a Freedom Of Information request suggest Fabric closure was a long term plan orchestrated by a hard-up council, with the police as pawns and drug legislation as a constant, convenient excuse.[/quote]
[quote]In fact, the original undercover police report itself also reported that “the general atmosphere of the club was friendly and non-threatening” and that “there was a diverse demographic in regards to race, [with people speaking] French, Italian and Chinese”. These findings did not make it into the Islington statement. [/quote]
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[QUOTE=Avvy;51013282][media]https://twitter.com/seb_wheeler_/status/773235861198626821[/media]
fucking lol[/QUOTE]
morons
People who have never stepped foot in a night club should not be legislating on night clubs.
The most annoying shit is that half of our political class rinses cocaine and they're closing clubs because some people are on drugs.
Fabric was on my bucket list after getting heavily into rave culture this summer.
It's impossible to stop people taking drugs in nightclubs. It is obvious that a different approach to the 'problem' of hard drugs is needed. These people died due to not being educated about the drugs they were taking.
The undercover police investigation into Fabric was named Operation Lenor.
As in the fabric softener.
lol
[QUOTE=CrumbleShake;51013460]The undercover police investigation into Fabric was named Operation Lenor.
As in the fabric softener.
lol[/QUOTE]
Haha never noticed that - let it never be said that UK cops don't have a sense of humour.
Then they turned around said the operation names don't mean anything and are randomly generated
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[QUOTE=Doozle;51013535]Then they turned around said the operation names don't mean anything and are randomly generated[/QUOTE]
saying that just reminds me of a bunch of 14 year old kids looking for band names on those name generator sites
police officer sitting there on his laptop with the soul purpose of looking for names - "Operation Blue Ice sounds fucking sick!"
So you'd think the place was closed down JUST because a couple of kids died.
You'd be wrong though.
Right now a major industry shift is happening in night life, it's not just happening in the UK it's happening all over the world. Clubs are being closed down because they are sitting on premium real estate space.
There have been rumours for a long time about estate tycoons buying up all the land these clubs are sitting on. The rumours have turned out to be true. It has already happened to Canada's largest club. The 'guverment' was closed down in Toronto late last year and a tycoon moved in and built a bunch of condos on the land.
Same thing is happening to Fabric unfortunately.
Here's where it gets a little shady. These estate tycoons have enough influence that they can get the media to blow stories and spin them to make it seem like the place is doing the devil's work or some shit. What better way to get a venue shut down than to capitalize on the deaths of a couple kids, make it seem like it was the club's fault this happened even though it wasn't.
Fucking watch, condos are going up in that spot. Mark my words on that.
I've been in the dj scene for years and I've seen many venues shut down in Toronto.
Fabric was one of the best venues in the UK for huge drum and bass acts. Which happens to be the genre I work under, so this makes me particularly pissed.
The dnb community even started a petition and it was followed closely on twitter but that shit never works.
This kinda shit is what made me lose my interest in political debate and discussion. I feel so powerless constantly. Here we have government officials using tragic deaths to justify getting land to estate tycoons for gentrification. Yesterday I was hearing about how in America, the DEA just banned Kratom, which is presumably because it's a threat to the pharmaceutical companies that have a large amount of control over the American government. American police knowingly beating an innocent man to near death then getting off scot free is the topic of another thread in SH right now.
This entire thing just feels so wrong, like I hate this but I'm just a spectator and all I get to do is watch injustice after injustice and undisguised bullshit go down and all I can do is watch.
[QUOTE=cr2142;51013553]saying that just reminds me of a bunch of 14 year old kids looking for band names on those name generator sites
police officer sitting there on his laptop with the soul purpose of looking for names - "Operation Blue Ice sounds fucking sick!"[/QUOTE]
[Media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05VYJZgIyKQ[/media]
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[QUOTE=nVidia;51013368]Legalize drugs, problem solved.[/QUOTE]
Or at least decriminalize drug use and stop the persecution of innocent people.
[QUOTE=DiBBs27;51013622]So you'd think the place was closed down JUST because a couple of kids died.
You'd be wrong though.
Right now a major industry shift is happening in night life, it's not just happening in the UK it's happening all over the world. Clubs are being closed down because they are sitting on premium real estate space.
There have been rumours for a long time about estate tycoons buying up all the land these clubs are sitting on. The rumours have turned out to be true. It has already happened to Canada's largest club. The 'guverment' was closed down in Toronto late last year and a tycoon moved in and built a bunch of condos on the land.
Same thing is happening to Fabric unfortunately.
Here's where it gets a little shady. These estate tycoons have enough influence that they can get the media to blow stories and spin them to make it seem like the place is doing the devil's work or some shit. What better way to get a venue shut down than to capitalize on the deaths of a couple kids, make it seem like it was the club's fault this happened even though it wasn't.
Fucking watch, condos are going up in that spot. Mark my words on that.
I've been in the dj scene for years and I've seen many venues shut down in Toronto.
Fabric was one of the best venues in the UK for huge drum and bass acts. Which happens to be the genre I work under, so this makes me particularly pissed.
The dnb community even started a petition and it was followed closely on twitter but that shit never works.[/QUOTE]
Gentrification is fucking abhorrent and serves as nothing more than to ruin neighborhoods by driving out their culture and people just to build shitty high-rise condos and vegan coffee shops.
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