UK : LDN (N) : Fabric permanently locked off.. I've got mixed views about this - clearly its a shame that any popular EDM venue is closed - but London and SE England clubbers didn't really say much when provincial venues were closed all over England starting from around 10 years ago following similar moral panics and demand for land/buildings from more profitable businesses (my current home town, Ipswich has been badly hit by this).
Also all the corporate superclubs of the 90s/00 (of which Fabric is one) spent the "good times" (when it might even have been the case drugs were tolerated by the previous governments to some extent as a distraction technique against worsening global situations) in cut throat competition with each other and any smaller promoters (especially those putting on events in the suburbs just outside London).
Of course this closure isn't going to stop drug abuse in London one bit and may make it worse - when EDM venues were closed all across Essex there was a brief spike in young people going directly to much harder drugs like crack and heroin.
However, if we want "Dutch" or "German" style nightlife in our cities in England we have to behave more like our neighbours across the North Sea - where promoters worked together even 10-20 years ago (and more importantly wider society value leisure activities as much as profit generating businesses. This difference in culture might require a thread of its own to explain).
Clubbers themselves have to behave better (whether or not they take drugs). I stopped going to (legal) EDM events around 5 years ago as even if there were good pills or whatever else the atmosphere was not as good.
There was always the risk of sketchy violence, and a lot of racial and gender tension (EDM in 80s/90s prided itself on being an especially inclusive/diverse subculture). It wasn't a great loss as I was getting older anyway, but younger friends some of whom had only just started partying understandably didn't want to just give up and many seemed to end up in unpleasant situations whether as clubbers or promoters.
Although the Grauniad is lamenting the loss of this club (and others across England); the same newspaper has over the years reported many horror stories about in particular sexual harrasment and assault against young girls/women on the UK nightlife/music scene as well as gang violence linked to certain urban music genres popular at commercial clubs; and to be fair they do not exaggerate or sensationalise crime like rightwing newspapers tend to.
I've noticed organisations like NTIA (Night Time Industries Association) cropping up in recent years but with changing attitudes within society it could be too little, too late...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/07/london-nightclub-fabric-close-permanently-licence-revoked-drugs
Club 414 This club 414 in Brixton me and a mate thinking of going there one night, does anybody have any feedback on their psych trance nights good, average, great, bad, and what about the mix of crowd, all ages or mostly young, etc., what about crowded or room to rock, appreciated, shame the club on Acer Road before Xmas didn't didn't continue, it was cool.
Barcelona Nightlife Every week, enjoy Barcelona Nightlife with free entrance to more than 40 parties at the best clubs of Barcelona with Shaz's Guest List. Let's enjoy the party.
Solo raver needs help finding a rave. These Maps Made From The Iconic Foods Of Different Places Will Make You Want To Travel And Chow Down
Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves have been all over the world sampling countries and the foods that are popular there. After they realized how much food can become part of a culture's identity, they decided to piece together a number of maps using the foods that the countries and continents are best known for. The results show how food has traveled the globe, helping to unite people from across the dinner table and beyond.
1. New Zealand (kiwi fruit)
2. UK and Ireland (biscuits)
3. India (spices)
4. Africa (bananas and plantains)
5. Japan (seaweed)
6. France (bread and cheese)
7. China (noodles)
8. Australia (shrimp)
9. Italy (tomatoes)
10. United States (corn)
11. South America (citrus fruit)
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Solo raver needs help finding a rave. Hello friends,
I've been having ZERO luck meeting other ravers in my area, and even less (believe it or not) in finding raves on my own. I love meeting new people and have no problem going by myself, but I cant even find out where to start looking. Can anyone help a friend in need?123
Advice This might not be the right forum for this but here it goes:
I need some advice on fucked up drinking games, this one time my friends came up with that you should rub the pingpong ball in someone's arse nefore you throw it in the cup, comment with your most fucked up thoughts!
UK : England : NE : Article about rave scene in NE Interesting article - especially as its very recent (mentioning mephedrone and a Volkswagen Lupo; both of which were less well known a few years ago - I had to look up the car having never heard of it, it is even smaller than a Polo so impressive the lad managed to get both sound equipment and passengers into it at all :laugh_at: )
what is going on there is identical to the coastal areas further down South; whilst events are tolerated / balkanised into W and NW England.
its possible the local Councils on the Western coast of the UK are more dependent on income from night time economy as the ports and fishing grounds and maritime industries aren't as good as the Eastern coast (this appears to have been going on for some decades)
"If They Don?t Let Us Do Them Safely And Legally, They?ll Happen Regardless" – The Battle Over North East Rave Culture Rages On | Northern Lights
London party places I need a fun fun party place to meet new friends. London in two days for two weeks. Private message me all night parties and fun if you can.
Hook a girl up; sheesh. I got some big real beewbies DDD.
– NEW – AFTERMOVIE –
:sign0056: - Hi guys and girls - :sign0056:
I've got a video made by myself to show you, this is the first AFTERMOVIE I made.
Last year I filmed the MELTING BASS #1 at @LE BATOFAR in PARIS, a french "PARTY BASS" with heavy DUBSTEP RIDDIM and some other good shits like that. I wanted to share with you so here it is! :sign0008:
Enjoy!!! And feel free to comment if you liked it or... not :devil_wag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJd_94Bu7kg
Introduction of myself: Maxime 19 years old, from Paris, Photograph and definitely RAVER!!
San Francisco Area As you can tell from the head line I'm from San Francisco. I'm lost someone and I'm trying to find her and any information on how to find her would really help with festival season coming up. If you could send me a private message the would help a lot.
thanks
places to go in berlin? i'm going to berlin on the 7th june and was wondering if anyone knows of any good places to go or if there are any events on between 7th and 12th june?
i would like to go to berghain but don't want to queue for ages and get turned away, would also like to check out tresor but think it is closed while im there. theres a place called suicide circus i want to check out and also want to have a look at tacheles. any one have any other recommendations of things to check out ?
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