6 major nightclub fuck-ups

It wasn't long ago we ran a piece highlighting the times festivals hadn't lived up to expectations and pissed a lot of people off.

Nightclubs are prone to the odd hiccup, too, albeit on a smaller scale most of the time. But that doesn't mean the impact of angering people is any less.

From poor staffing and organisation to dodgy safety standards leading to closures, we've compiled a short list of club fuck-ups below.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," so the saying goes. But if it is, then you definitely should. Manchester club Factory 251, co-owned by former New Order man Peter Hook, clearly didn't get the memo as its ceiling fell on top of clubbers not once, but twice. The first instance was in 2014 when, halfway through the night, a piece of plasterboard gave way at the Princess Street venue and injured seven people. A few years later, in February this year, the same thing happened again, with the exact same section. Only this time nobody was injured, despite reports of screaming and crying. Dance music's all about unity and that was the case here as the entire dancefloor of revellers managed to hold the panel up.

Glitzy London club DSTRKT landed in hot water in September 2015 after claims that its door staff had denied four women entry for being "too dark" and "too fat". The club denied it, of course, saying that the venue was fully booked. Cue a huge protest with chants of "racist scum" and the hashtag '#racistclub' on Twitter. The West London nightspot took another battering this year, becoming the subject of a lyrical uppercut by Stormzy who states "Fuck DSTRKT, fuck all these nightclubs and fuck giving money to all these people who don't like us" on his track 'First Things First'. Ouch.

Another ceiling malfunction, another night cut short. Dutch DJ Job Jobse and Innervisions boss Dixon were five hours into a seven-hour back-to-back set at Amsterdam's decadent Concertgebouw when parts of the roof started crumbling. Not primarily used for house and techno raves, there were suggestions that it could have been caused by this fact. "It is being examined whether the damage is related to the event," the venue posted on Facebook shortly after. Luckily nobody was hurt. Maybe stick to orchestral gigs in future, guys.

The end of an era for Mallorca's biggest nightclub in the boozy party town of Magaluf. Shoddy building works in 2015 meant BCM didn't meet safety standards and Calvià municipality authorities deemed it unsafe to stay open in April. The closure got the green light just a month after BCM's owner, Bartolomé Cursach, was imprisoned on 16 charges including extortion and murder. A town hall official also lost their job in February due to attempts of stopping a licensing investigation taking place. That's one less club for the likes of Judge Jules and DJ Sammy to play at, then...

Clubs book DJs, and DJs sometimes use turntables to do so. So, you'd expect venues to be equipped and ready for those who will be playing the tunes, right? Unfortunately that's not always the case as avid vinyl user Riz La Teef found out when he turned up to Birmingham's Scru:club in March. Replying to Mumdance, who had his own problems with the club, Riz tweeted "I turned up to this place and they had no turntables in the venue so I couldn't play". He still got paid, though, so not all bad.

In an ideal world, all musicians would be treated with equal respect. Sadly, there's an ignorant minority that seem to be intent on going against this. Sexism in the music industry has been well reported, from Björk writing an open letter on the subject to Jackmaster sharing his views on the matter. London DJ and NTS resident Throwing Shade is the latest to raise the issue, singling out sound guys at a venue in France for being, well, shit. "When sound guys don't give a crap and you can tell it's because you're a female," she tweeted, before posting a video about the situation. In this, she describes said sound guys as being "incompetent" and highlights the fact one of the CDJs wasn't connected to the mixer. Quite the clanger, eh. A male DJ played after her and it turns out the engineers were on hand to sort everything out. Hmmmm.

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