Talk:Fabric (club)

Rewrite needed

The text of this article needs to be deleted and completely rewritten. Iron Ghost 23:32, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

agreed, tagged for clean up, may doit myself at some point. Junior Aspirin 23:00, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Are those opinions about fabric becoming a 'victim of it's own success' really appropriate? djm 15:34, 30 December 2005 (GMT)

Fabric is really busy, it's certainly the best place for that kind of music over the world but now the queu is hudge and it's a bit too crowded inside, some girls get anoyed etc._{--Roch Delsalle 01:52, 7 July 2007 (UTC)}

Have just deleted a lot of irrelevant rubbish that was basically promoting Fabric; however, any fool (such as myself) could have done that - the article needs to be fleshed out. Real facts with REAL citation would be greatly appreciated! Signhere (talk) 17:03, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Citation for no.1 spot

As for the 'one of the best' citation, didn't a recent poll of DJs in iDJ reveal it as No.1? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.77.48.183 (talk) 21:12, April 16, 2006 (UTC)

The Building

What was the building before it was Fabric? Given that it's underground, massive and in Smithfield, i'd guess either a meat store or something to do with the Metropolitan Railway - a goods yard?

-- Tom Anderson 2007-04-07 22:45 +0100 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.56.79.121 (talk) 21:45, 7 April 2007 (UTC).

It was a meat packing warehouse. Source. -- ricmitch 14:18, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Capacity

Are you sure about the capacity ? this website say 1800: http://www.venues.org.uk/profile_page.asp?VenueID=4057 and that one, 2500: http://www.fluidfoundation.com/venuedetails.aspx?VenueID=657

--Roch Delsalle 01:59, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Trivia

I know trivia sections are discouraged, but it's perhaps worth working in somewhere that the music video for E Talking by Soulwax was filmed on location at Fabric.

who the hell are Leslie and Reilly

and why is there a whole section about some unreferenced thingy called matter? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.100.150 (talk) 14:49, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

They are the owners of club, it sais so on the side. matter is another big club in London run by the fabric management, id like to expand this section here, possibly create a new page for matter. --A Gooner (talk) 22:50, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Ali B

There is a reference to Ali B, which is a rapper famous in holland. I doubt he is also the same a the resident of the fabric nights? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.204.81.73 (talk) 14:56, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

fabric Records

I think a table with a list of fabriclive compilation releases would be a nice addition, any volunteers?

NPOV dispute Official closure ("Operation Lenor")

The single source article insufficiently justifies the argument that Fabric's closure was a government conspiracy. Description of Fabric's closure should document the deaths, review process, laws, and then in a 'controversy' section argue that this course of events is not accepted by parties, where details of allegations can follow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0veritas (talk • contribs) 21:02, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

I have removed the tag after recent edits that addressed NPOV concerns. The article from The Independent can be regarded as a reliable source - you are entitled to your own opinion of course, but we don't write Wikipedia articles according to these. There is no question that this action by the local authorities has been highly controversial, e.g. considering that even the Mayor of London came out against it, and per the NPOV policy the article has to reflect that, whatever your own feelings are. Regards, HaeB (talk) 15:22, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

I am new to this, and respect the reliability of the Independent as much as anyone, but this article contained a large amount of bias, leading rhetorical questions and ambiguity. I have removed "Operation Lenor" from the section title because it is implied in the Independent article that this was the name of a police campaign, but the evidence given shows only that it was used for the undercover inspection described in the police form. Also, I don't appreciate your snarky remark about opinions, you've been around long enough to be able to deal with them I'm sure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 0veritas (talk • contribs) 22:37, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Capitalization

The capitalization used by the mark owner is irrelevant here. The Wikipedia Manual of Style is crystal clear that the name is to be rendered as "Fabric" and not as "fabric" for this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.33.145.32 (talk) 17:14, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

The terrible Independent article

As the section 2 places above this one notes, the Independent article is completely one sided and unreliable. The subheading of the article shows it - "Council documents suggest Fabric closure was a long term plan orchestrated by a hard-up council, with the police as pawns and drug legislation as a constant, convenient excuse." Completely unacceptable to use this article. First off, all these council documents show is that there were restrictions placed on the club a few years prior due to other drug related deaths. Apparently that's a dastardly "long term plan" to close the club. The hard-up council part is even worse, with no evidence whatsoever the Independent alleges the council wants to close the club because they're somehow not making money from it??? But they will if they turn it into a block of flats like what happened once to a club in Manchester??? Seriously, read this article guys, it's terrible. 2.102.184.35 (talk) 22:03, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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