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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Sarah H
Its just an excuse to close down the club, sure, there has been drug related deaths but a lot of clubs have had similar incidents, one of the clubs I play has a purpose built recovery room for incidents relating to drugs, its not talked about but its there hidden out of the way, the club owners realise that no matter how good the security, no matter how many posters they put up, someone is going to be taking drugs inside their club.
The recovery room has trained medical staff man it constantly whilst the club is open and has no doubt saved a couple of lives.
As for Fabric, its in an area that is up for refurbishment,there are a lot of smaller venues in that area including cafes and pubs that have been forced to close down and then have been bought by the local council at a cheap price.
I do a lot of work in the area and have noticed the demise of these kind of places increase over the last 18 months.
Its like Ministry of Sound, its been under threat of closure for years, its in a residential area and has also seen a couple of drug related deaths and murders!
Yet it remains (mainly down the owners whom are lets say, not really intrested in music but the money they can cleanse through the place, a lot like Cream in Liverpool, it was owned by the Mafia.. and said owners can buy a lot of influence)
Fabric is a legit business so does not share the same kind of 'influence' as do other clubs. |
Totally agree with a lot of this; I know certain big clubs in london used to grease the wheels to keep their dodgy clubs open while others that played by the rules and did everything they could to keep clean got closed down.
Just look at what happened with HOME in Leicester square - Aside from the location making it a target for both dealers and bad press, the council was all over them from the moment the club started trading but somehow that same council were happy to approve the all the plans and multi-million pound development in the first place.
One big north london club back in the day used to have an "arrangement" - It was so funny to see the head dealer (real London old school firm) sitting and having a good chat with head of security at the end of the night. But they were smart - they were tough on contraband coming in on punters and handed over most of it to the police, but the agreement was that the police would stay out. It let them control the supply so no dodgy/dangerous drugs got circulated and kept the authorities happy, especially as they had paramedics and an ambulance on site all the time.
With fabric, It sounds like more of Boris' and the Tory governments end less plans to carve up london.
Really interesting article on the impending demise of London's legendary Tin Pan Alley (where I used to work right next door at Turnkey which was a kind of extension to Tin Pan Alley) - it explains a lot of what is happening to London's planning....
http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/c...ey-9927983.html
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