fabric club

Fabric is a nightclub in London. The club was founded by Keith Reilly and Cameron Leslie and opened its doors on 29 October 1999. It was voted number 2 in DJ Magazine's "Top 100 Clubs in the World" poll in 2011, 2010 and 2009 and number 1 in 2008. It is located in the renovated space of the Metropolitan Cold Stores on Charterhouse Street on the southern boundary of the London Borough of Islington.

Fabric has three separate rooms with independent sound systems. Two of the rooms feature stages for live acts. A feature of the club is its vibrating floor in Room One, known as a "Bodysonic" dancefloor. This is because sections of the floor are attached to 400 bass transducers emitting bass frequencies of the music being played.

 

The musical genres played there vary. FabricLive is a Friday-night with hip hop, breakbeat, dubstep, drum and bass and electro music. Fabric's Saturday nights include house and techno music. Craig Richards and Terry Francis are the club's resident DJs and Richards is also one of the Directors of Music Programming, selecting the lineups for Saturday nights. There have been great  appearances on the club by DJs such as Ricardo Villalobos, Carl Craig, Ellen Allien, and many others. Sundays at Fabric are promoted by Wetyourself, a Polysexual event that has been running since February 2009. The music policy is underground house and techno.

 In 2010, Fabric briefly went into administration after its sister club Matter, with whom it had a cross-guaranteed loan, announced it would close for the summer due to financial difficulties. Fabric was put on the market on 1 June 2010 and, defying those who bet on its closure, on 24 of June it was announced that the club had been bought by Fabric Life Limited.

Matter is a 2.600-capacity venue built under the dome of the O2 Arena by the team which runs Fabric. When Leslie and Fabric’s founder Keith Reilly subsequently visited the site in 2006, what really enticed them was the chance to design and purpose build a venue which would have none of the problems associated with converting an existing location. Leslie emphasizes that Matter is not the “Son of Fabric”. Whereas Fabric is a 1.500-capacity nightclub which occasionally hosts different events, Matter is designed to operate as a live venue, a club, a performing arts space or a VIP club, with its own separate entrance, possibly fulfilling all of those functions within the same night.

Fabric’ s success has come due to its people love and loyalty in music and their desire to push it further not only to new kinds but also evolve the whole music scene. You can realize that just by their motto. “No Formulas, No Branding and No Bullshit”…