DJ's Begging

ArchimedesQ

Dan we just booked 3D for a night we are doing in Lancaster, £6K for them, £2K each, also on the bill is Chris Scott who is £600
I’m playing for 3 packets of crunchy M&Ms and a bottle of Tizer

Dan

ArchimedesQ I think that’s a good price considering you get three really good Jocks that’ll fill the gaff. My mate is Darren’s studio engineer btw.

When we booked Elliot Eastwick he told us a great story about a consortium of his mates who clubbed together to book Tenaglia in the mid 90’s….all 25 of them queuing off their tits at 3am at the cash point to pay Tenaglia’s fee….cash gig. ✔️

ArchimedesQ

Dan lol, you would think that wouldn’t you but ticket sales have been shit so far. They are playing a lot of gigs over the next couple of months and it seems that people just don’t have the cash. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we end up losing a packet ffs

IndustryStandard

Booked Nicky Holloway once for one of our nights at Fluid. Turned up shit faced wearing guy liner, chugging out of a hip flask with a young hitler youth looking “driver” in tow.

Nice chap, but an utter fruit loop.

ArchimedesQ

IndustryStandard I used to love Nicky Holloway. Spent some of the best nights of my life with him playing at the Astoria - looking like a total loon when the lights came up dancing to the Stones - Sympathy, gurning my tits off from a side order of Cally’s

Dan

ArchimedesQ 🤞🏻 it’ll be alright on the night

Dan

Best DJ’s we booked were Leo Zero & Leftside Wobble…both top blokes and were bang into what we were doing. We booked Leo about three times.

IndustryStandard

ArchimedesQ He was a top bloke but away with the fairies. Not sure how he is now. Think he was pretty sick at one stage a few years back.

Cankles-McJeggings

IndustryStandard

I met him once around 92 and he was absolutely crackers. I really didn’t know if he was a mad eccentric off his tits or as you say away with the fairies. He was dressed pretty whacky, from memory a white tuxedo with all ruffles down the front and some red number over it like a Spanish matador. 😂
I read a bit back he’s had repeated mental breakdowns or something like that. Can’t quite recall but it wasn’t good. Would assume drink and drugs involved.

mono-stereo

Amps The campaign was never about money, it was about keeping a culturally significant venue open.

The concept of the club itself wasn’t about making money, it was about realising a venue purely based on high quality electronic music with an incredible sound system.

I have it on good authority that the owners have had the opportunity to cash out more then once, but haven’t. Despite the fact that things where very much touch and go after matter folded.

Fabric isn’t the cash cow you assume it is.

Amps

mono-stereo The concept of the club itself wasn’t about making money, it was about realising a venue purely based on high quality electronic music with an incredible sound system.

That is incredibly naive / wishful thinking.

mono-stereo Fabric isn’t the cash cow you assume it is.

I would disagree, and also suggest that, even if they’re not rolling in it, they could certainly afford to borrow against the place.

How much did you give them???

alistair

To Amps, anyone trying to run a business is part of the capitalist bourgeoisie

mono-stereo

alistair it’s a bit fucking rum to accuse the owners of one of the worlds great nightclubs of “weird begging / theft / a con under the thin veil of #supportournightculture” when you don’t even know who they are, or what their motivation is.

alistair

mono-stereo running a club is a labour of love in many ways. The profit margins are tight, operating costs are high, and as we have seen, so much is out of your control. Covid nearly killed nightclubs

mono-stereo

Amps That is incredibly naive / wishful thinking.

It’s literally proven by their music policy from the day they opened.

mono-stereo

Amps I would disagree, and also suggest that, even if they’re not rolling in it, they could certainly afford to borrow against the place.

Based on what exactly? How fabulously well underground electronic clubs have performed financially in the last 20 years?

mono-stereo

alistair exactly. Look at how home did in comparison to fabric.

Mad_Cyril

alistair Covid nearly killed nightclubs

In 2016?

Dan

mono-stereo Home’s location didn’t help them, but on the other hand Heaven has been going for years.

Amps

mono-stereo Well… I can only talk from my experiences… after 12 odd years working in nightclubs and festivals I am yet to meet a promoter or club owner who was skint or even close too it. I’d say all of them to a man were doing quite well, certainly well enough to pay for their own legal representation.

But, that said, I’m happy to be wrong if others know otherwise.

Heno

Dan I’ll tell him a magic story about how to open a bank account and save like normal people!

rhouses

BlainSA need to revisit, been at least a decade. the nite life and fabric mixes were my early introductions to tech house. Or real tech house as I like to call it, before it was bastardised by edm fucks like funk agenda and mark knight. Have the nite life vinyl release too, all bangers.

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