British Dance Music Institution Could Face Closure In A Matter Of Hours

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British Dance Music Institution Could Face Closure In A Matter Of Hours

It’s not only Ministry Of Sound London’s ongoing concern. Long standing British nightclub and world renowned institution Fabric is under threat of closure.

Police have teamed up with the council to call for a review of the nightclub’s license, after a worrying number of drug-related deaths and hospitalisations at the club in the last three years.

The meeting that’s set to go down in a number of hours at the Islington council will determine the 15 year old clubs future. Fabric have taken to social media to gather support and release a statement. In their defence, they quote;

“Fabric opened in October of 1999 and we’ve remained open over the 15 years since. Throughout this time, although the Farringdon area has changed, we’ve always prided ourselves on being a visible, approachable and integral part of the local community. Taking great lengths to work alongside and dialogue with local businesses and organisations we work tirelessly to ensure the safety of our patrons, at all times. We’ve run highly visible warning campaigns tackling numerous issues including drug use, safer travel, our harassment awareness initiative run in cooperation with Hollaback LDN and our Phone Safety campaign (which is now recognisable city-wide across London).

In short, we care deeply about the welfare of our patrons. fabric has always operated a zero tolerance drugs policy and we’re proud to continue to be open and honest in assisting the police with any incident investigations.

We employ two trained medics who are on site for the duration of all of our club events and, as a venue, we provide free water and non-judgmental advice from bar staff, stewards and security teams. The incidents referred to in the Met Police’s report are truly tragic events; incidents that we assure you our team reacted to in the quickest possible and most efficient manner – our medical staff have since been commended by senior coroners on their “impressive” and “quite extraordinary” level of expertise.

As a team we’ve all felt the shock and horror that a death on our premises can cause. We don’t take it lightly; in fact, we’re constantly adapting our protocols in direct reaction to them in the hope that these are changes we can make to our operational policy that will prevent incidents like this from happening in the future.

Our hearts and thoughts really do go out to all the friends and families of those involved.”

Is closure the answer? You could argue if a person is going to take drugs, they will still take them. It would just be at another venue if Fabric closes it’s doors? Should the Police be looking closer for the supply source?

How can you help Fabric not get close? The club has started a petition so please feel free to sign it like the already 25,000 people have!

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