Fabric (nightclub)
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| Location | Farringdon, London, England |
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| Coordinates | 51°31′10.05″N 0°6′10.36″W / 51.5194583°N 0.1028778°WCoordinates: 51°31′10.05″N 0°6′10.36″W / 51.5194583°N 0.1028778°W |
| Owner | Fabric Life Limited |
| Type | Nightclub |
| Capacity | 2,500 |
| Opened | 1999 |
| Closed | 2016 (Reopened - 2017) |
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| www.fabriclondon.com | |
Fabric is a nightclub in Farringdon, London, England. Founded in 1999, it was closed down by authorities in 2016. Fabric began a campaign to save the club and the UK's dance music culture on 16 September 2016. Fabric was later allowed to be reopened under strict laws.
Located on Charterhouse Street opposite Smithfield Market, the club was voted World Number 1 Club in DJ Magazine's "Top 100 Clubs Poll" in 2007 and 2008 and ranked World Number 2 in 2009, 2010 and 2017.
The club was founded by Keith Reilly and Cameron Leslie and opened on 29 October 1999.
Fabric occupied the renovated space of the Metropolitan Cold Stores. Smithfield Meat Market stands and operates from a site directly opposite. The area's construction took place in Victorian times alongside nearby landmarks Holborn Viaduct and Fleet Valley Bridge.
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, sections of the floor are attached to 400 bass transducers emitting bass frequencies of the music being played.
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 suffered as a consequence of continued delays with TfL upgrade of the Jubilee Line. Fabric was put on the market on 1 June 2010. On 24 June it was announced Fabric was no longer in administration and had been bought by Fabric Life Limited, "a consortium who fully back [Fabric] founders Keith Reilly and Cameron Leslie's vision."
The musical genres played at Fabric vary. Friday nights (known as "FabricLive") are a sound-clash of multiple genres including grime, breakbeat, dubstep, drum and bass and electro. Saturday nights, (known simply as "Fabric") showcase house and techno and feature the club's resident DJs Craig Richards and Terry Francis. Richards was also one of the Directors of Music Programming, selecting the lineups for Saturday nights, which have featured appearances 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, with the occasional live PA.
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