international news _ 23rd October, 2006
Fabric Chief Lashes Moby & Madonna
Text by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
Fabric founder Keith Reilly branded birthdays ‘trivial pursuits’ this week
as his East London club prepared to mark its seventh year and launched
similarly outspoken attack on modern celebrity culture.
“I feel a great sadness for the effects of it, not just celebrity culture
but the fact there’s such a high speed component to everything nowadays-
everything has to be spontaneous,” he complained.
“I feel a great sadness for so many people who’ve got caught up in it all,
especially younger kids who already think they’re failed at 18 if they
haven’t had an audition on X Factor and been to every club on Ibiza.”
Admitting he’d never been to Ibiza ever, the usually reticent though hugely
influential club chief said he finds London’s celebrity scene alien and
addressed the persistent rumours that Moby and Madonna have both been barred
from Fabric in the past.
“Madonna’s not been turned away three times, that’s a load of nonsense, she
hasn’t, but we have refused to cater for what she asked for,” Keith
explained.
“She wanted to come here with ten of her own security plus a big entourage
and take over half the VIP lounge. I don’t want that. I’m not going to
displace our regulars. What’s more important to me than the Madonna is the
spotty faced kid from Norwich who’s fucking cycled down here for the club.
That’s actually happened, someone cycled here all the way from Norwich. He
came for the music and he’s more important to me than her, because she
wasn’t coming here to listen to the music; the only reason she wanted that
big entourage was because it was all about making a big appearance and
entrance. Look at me. Other people have come down here and wandered round
the club, everyone from Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bono and Keither Sutherland,
they didn’t give a shit and they had no problems.”
He was markedly less sympathetic about Moby, however, suggesting the New
York popster had been rude.
“We’ve had a few people turned away in those age-old ‘do you know who I am?’
scenarios, and those people are pretty much dickheads- like Moby, he was a
classic,” said Keith.
“He said ‘do you know who I am?’ we said ‘yeah, we do know who you are,
you’re not coming in, you little twit’. He was just being such a bore at the
door and one thing I will not accept is people being rude to our staff.
Anyone that judges anyone by what they do or the size of their wallet or
considers themselves better than someone else, I don’t care who you are, if
you’re rude in anyway to our staff, you’re not welcome here,” he added.
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