Fabric - London

steewith2ees

steewith2ees

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With the UK dance music scene well and truly on it's arse, we have been left with just TWO superclubs that still operate every weekend and continue to showcase the best of every form of dance music in the planet.

These are both based in London, the world famous Ministry of Sound which has continued to showcase the best in US house and garage every Saturday night since 1991, and is now also home to DJ Tall Paul's 21 year old Friday night, hosting the best in techno trance and house, 'The Gallery' (formally held at Turnmills before its demolition.)

The other is of course the peerless Fabric, which, like many venues of it's type over the years, has seen a number of drug deaths, 6 in total since the club opened in 2001 but with the most recent two occurring this summer. This has led to the club receiving a temporary license suspension, which will in all likely be removed completely by local magistrates tomorrow (6th September 2016) resulting in the permanent closure of one of the countries last 2 weekly dance music superclubs. 6 deaths is 6 too many, but considering that no less that ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY PEOPLE have died while in the custody of London's Metropolitan Police force during the same period, this action in unwarranted, unfathomable and will in all likely be the final nail in the coffin for the UK dance industry.

Wherever your from, Fabric is yours, as due to it's profile it is not only one of London's last remaining superclubs of it's type but an all round tourist attraction for those visitors to the city who know what type of music is right....

Please sign the petition to save Fabric TODAY, as tomorrow will be too late.....

petition: https://www.change.org/p/save-london-s-nightlife-stop-the-closure-of-fabric


news report: http://www.itv.com/news/london/2016-08-30/sadiq-khan-urges-common-sense-solution-as-fabric-nightclub-fights-for-its-future-after-teenage-deaths/

Love Fabric <3 Love Life
 
Signed.

I've only visited Fabric a couple of times when I was in London years ago. It seemed like security were really on the ball though. I remember handing cash to a friend to get me a drink and we were immediately set upon by security asking us what we're doing and what the money is for.

I also remember been searched (asked to empty hands/pockets) when I went to the toilet because i looked 'suspicious'. I can totally understand why considering what's recently happened.. of all night venues I've been to in Europe, Fabric definitely had the most alert security I've ever seen. That said it was such a labyrinth of a place which really added to the dance music atmosphere.

Wish it all the best.
 
cheers malakaix - much appreciated - the security is fairly OTT in both Fabric and the Ministry Of Sound due to the high profile location and nature of these venues, but keep your shit tight and they continue to offer the best designer dance environments in the UK, due to their respective sizes, world class sound and intelligent lighting systems and the best contemporary and classic examples of the best dance music of the planet - from the D&B / Alternative dance focus of FabrcicLive, the clubs long running Friday night, to the progressive house and trance sound of the Gallery, to Saturdays main Fabric night which has showcased the best progressive, tech house and techno in the world for the last 15 years, to the alternative choice of the Ministries 25 year old showcase of the best US house and garage, taken straight from the dancefllors of contemporary New York and beyond. Between the 2 clubs and the two nights that every weekend provides, the best examples of most of dance musics most poplar genres are represented every week still on the dancefloors of London.

It's all we have left from a scene that led the world only a decade ago.
 
Aw what?


Not my first choice of venue coz it's pretty commercial, but used to be able to get vip tickets so went there a lot a while back. The ''floor taps' in the toilets always used to catch me out even after I knew where they were...especially when I was mashed... this was a source of much amusement. I had some really good times there, would be a great shame if it was shut down, it is a blinding place


If it does go at least I still have Whirl-y-Gig :::)
 
Sad times. I've not been to Fabric since 2000 (btw it opened in 1999, not 2001), but peeps I know that still go have a good time. Fingers crossed they manage to survive...
 
CFC said:
Sad times. I've not been to Fabric since 2000 (btw it opened in 1999, not 2001), but peeps I know that still go have a good time. Fingers crossed they manage to survive...
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I stand corrected - you are right about the year it opened but with 'Home' grabbing all the headlines around the time with their, short lived, London venture, it was only upon buying the first Fabric compilation (No. 1 Mixed by Craig Richards) in 2001 that I started to take serious interest in the venue. At the time it had The End, Turnmills, Heaven among a plethora of fantastic London based clubs to contend with, and as such it took some time to register on my radar as a non - London resident (I live in Wolverhampton so the majority of my 'superclubbing' was centred around Birmingham (originally Republica and Atomic Jam and the slightly further afield Passion at The Emporium in Coalville, followed later by Godskitchen and Sundissential as the millenium came and went)
 
steewith2ees said:
I stand corrected - you are right about the year it opened but with 'Home' grabbing all the headlines around the time with their, short lived, London venture, it was only upon buying the first Fabric compilation (No. 1 Mixed by Craig Richards) in 2001 that I started to take serious interest in the venue. At the time it had The End, Turnmills, Heaven among a plethora of fantastic London based clubs to contend with, and as such it took some time to register on my radar as a non - London resident (I live in Wolverhampton so the majority of my 'superclubbing' was centred around Birmingham (originally Republica and Atomic Jam and the slightly further afield Passion at The Emporium in Coalville, followed later by Godskitchen and Sundissential as the millenium came and went)
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Wow, some real blast from the past names there :)

It does make me wonder just how it all collapsed. What are kids doing now on the weekends?
 
Islington council's reasoning was shockingly unbalanced. I can only assume developers are swarming around and, well, money talks...
 
And I always thought it was only Westminster council and it's bunch of stuck-up old reactionary Tory cronies that were against any form of modern entertainment. Clearly the virus is spreading...
 
Wunderground asked local raver Millie Dalston about her views on the rave scene, “I’m looking forward to a new era of illegal raves around the M25,” said a very excitable Mille. “Of course Fabric being closed is extremely sad but we’ve all seen the documentaries about rave culture in the eighties and nineties and I simply cannot wait to get that phone call at ten p.m on Saturday night telling me where I need to go. We have so many options this weekend, London will be one ginormous rave zone and I can’t wait to be apart of it.”

http://wundergroundmusic.com/172-illegal-raves-planned-in-london-this-weekend/

KEEP THE SCENE ALIVE
 
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And I always thought it was only Westminster council and it's bunch of stuck-up old reactionary Tory cronies that were against any form of modern entertainment. Clearly the virus is spreading...
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Without a doubt. This is no longer a left-right issue - everyone is basically equally childish when it comes to talking about drugs, even if some are seeing the light with regards to prohibitionary policy. They're bad, everywhere, any way, and always.

Muzda Jonxx said:
Damn straight. What with their bullshit psychoactive substances bill and whatnot, it's been a bad year for hedonism.
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It has, but drug culture and nightlife is its own culture encompassing everything on the spectrum of human experience, good and bad.

When it isn't allowed to mature, nothing is learned, nothing is taught, and the next generation will make poor drug-related choices, and will pay for it physically and socially. We're willingly creating orphans. What incredible short-sightedness this whole affair evinces. It's painful to hear about it.
 
Six deaths in 6 million visits.

I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation, and for the fabric age-range, assuming a stay of 5 hours, and that people that age die when they're awake, I make it that you're more likely to die elsewhere than in fabric.

Perhaps they were right when they called it a 'safe haven'.
 
This happened in NYC about 10/15 years ago.

...shame all these boring "cunts" get to have another go at a legendary cultural hotbed of activity.

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Dance music and dance events have a function and a history that stretches back before the common era.
 
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