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- [ Special Issue: Club X / Qu ]
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- Recent events / Personal opinion
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- Club X in Wuustwezel is closed. This is the result of a recent drug bust which
- took place on a sunday morning. The cops found an amount of XTC pills, speed &
- 2 guns. It then was decided that the club would have to be closed for four
- months. I still believe that closing clubs really does NOTHING about some of
- the problems, especially drugs. Do they close public parks because they are
- visited by heroin junks, which is a lot worse than an XTC tablet or a line of
- speed? No. Then why close house clubs? I find this only right if it is proven
- that the owner of the club is involved with the drug traffic in the club. But
- let's stick with the subject...
- Club X was famous because of the hard style of house they played and attracted
- a certain public. So the owners of the club decided to omit the closing of the
- club and went to Brasschaat, to the Qu (see Belgian Clubs issue 4). As I menti-
- oned in BC4 the Qu was dead and the owners of Club X have taken over the Qu and
- now the Qu has become Club X! They took the board that said 'Club X' from Wuus-
- twezel and placed it at the club in Brasschaat. So, to put in in other words,
- the club has been moved from Wuustwezel to Brasschaat (Bredabaan) [:) Although
- I find it a very original thing to do, I believe that this may have a certain
- influence on other clubs that are situated in the Antwerp region. There are
- already complaints about Club X moving to Brasschaat (from people who live in
- the neigbourhood of the club - I dunno what they are, so I cannot judge whether
- they are serious or not). I hope that this will not have repercussions on other
- clubs, but I am afraid it will. First of all, house clubs already have a bad
- reputation when it comes to drugs. The media make it sound as if almost all of
- the people who visit house clubs are lowlifes and junks. This is not true, but
- hey, try to explain it to a 40 year old and you hit a brick wall! This incident
- is another example of how some dumb motherfuckers can ruin other people's fun.
- I am not judging people who TAKE drugs, but the ones who SELL 'em IN CLUBS. If
- people bought their stuff somewhere else and took everything at home or some-
- where else BEFORE visiting the club, there wouldn't be such a big mess. They
- can still flash all night without the club being in such a big risk. Ofcoz, the
- safest thing, for the club AND yourself, is staying clean.
- Now, some time ago it almost was a fashion of busting some house temple every
- weekend and closing it. I hope that this will not repeat itself. There are so-
- me VERY good clubs out there that I wouldn't want to see being closed. In the
- Antwerp region they are already talkin' of handling the club 'problem' in a
- bigger way... Not that there is any in my opinion, except for maybe some ass-
- holes who get a kick of shitting in people's mailboxes etc [:( I firmly belie-
- ve that most of the clubs I visit do a pretty good job in trying to avoid il-
- legal stuff being taken inside, but no system is 100% . And I know that there
- indeed are SOME places in which drugs are tolerated, but these are rather rare.
- So to end this little bit of info, I wanna say that we'll visit the 'new' Club
- X next week (if it is still open by then) and bring you a more in-depth report
- on it.
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- Rave on & rave hard!
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- Probotector / AS member, Belgian Clubs issues coordinator
- Reach me at: The Court Of Justice +32-3-4482173, Azure Sky WHQ