Fabric Nightclub's Licence Is Revoked.

Islington Council have closed down Fabric Nightclub. The Club has had it's licence permeanently revoked and will no longer be open for business.

Fabric

After an overnight review meeting which saw Fabric's owners Cameron Leslie and Keith Riley, Staff members and many more fight for the nightclub to remain open Islington Council sided with the MET Police and concluded that the club should be permanently closed as it had become a "Drugs haven" and would only get worse due to the lack of staff and security intervention when it came to drug use.

"Staff intervention and security was grossly inadequate inthe 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 including sweating, glazed red eyes and staring into space and people asking for help." - Islington Council

The closure of the club was said by Islington council and Metropolitan Police to be due to the recent drug-related deaths of two 18 year olds at the club within a space of 4 months.

Ryan Browne, 18, and Jack Crossley both died after taking the ilegal drug, MDMA. Mr Browne was said to have bought the drugs into the club, he had also taken three ecstacy tablets which he had smuggled into the club. Mr Crossley smuggled MDMA into the club in his boxer shorts after a relaxed search by security.

London Mayor, Sadiq Khan

When initial talks began about the closure of Fabric, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he would help to keep the club open.

Before the final decision was made to close Fabric, Mr Khan had sent a letter to Islington Council asking them to reconsider closing the club as it was a part of London's iconic clubbing scene.

Read letter here.

So is closing Fabric really the answer?

In my opinion, "No!!!"


The victims have both been described as sensible people, who went out to enjoy themselves. I do not mean to sound heartless but why are the owners of Fabric, the 250 staff members who have now lost their jobs and clubbers having to suffer for the not-so-sensible decisions made by two adults?

Closing Fabric does not change the fact that people are getting their hands on drugs that are not safe. The synthetic weed, the laced marijuana, the MDMA...they're still going to be out there.

In regards to security searching club-goers, revellers are not going to allow security staff to search their underpants.
The drugs smuggled into the club by the victims and their friends were also contributions to their deaths. Has the supplier of the Ecstacy used been charged and convicted of a crime - of course not because this wasn't really about the drugs.

It was Islington Council being low on funds and needing something to sell or lease.

Big enough for a few apartments?

Will this venue now be sold to a large housing association or property development mogul and turned into apartments for the wealthy?

During the review a commitee member suggested that the faster BPMs be banned. The BPM of music does not contribute to the usage of drugs.

There are songs which you would be surprised to know have the same BPM.

Aaliyah's 'Are you that somebody' and Skepta's 'Shutdown' are both 138 BPM.

Rather than saying BPM, why not just say a genre?

This would make more sense, although it wouldn't change anything.

Back in the day, genres like Acid and Grunge, were associated with drugs - popping pills, doing mushrooms - People zoning out and just enjoying the music....Psychedilic trances.

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Now people want to try these fake, man-made drugs like MDMA and that Pot Pourri looking shite - synthetic weed.

Synthetic Weed

No matter where the venue is, people will still take drugs.