Joe Muggs

fabric captures the journey of a small group of enthusiasts who, rebelling against the commercialisation of the rave scene, converted a derelict meat store in an unfashionable part of London into a venue that remains a cathedral for undiluted dance music with a global following.

Featuring stories about the club’s birth, struggles and successes, as well as rare photography and iconic artwork, and an oral history by Joe Muggs featuring over one hundred testimonies from the legendary DJs associated with fabric, this is a celebration of the colossal impact fabric has had on club culture over the last quarter of a century. Above all, it’s a story about the misfits and visionaries who made it happen, the curators and resident DJs who have kept it true to its roots, and the experiences of clubbers on the dancefloor.

Foreword: Annie Mac

Introduction: Bill Brewster

Writer: Joe Muggs

Cameron Leslie, fabric Co-Founder & Director, said: ‘Creating this book has been a remarkable journey and a rewarding experience. Seeing that, even after 25 years, our contribution is still impactful in the London scene is humbling and is certainly something that motivates us to keep pushing boundaries as well as supporting the community that surrounds us and has given us so much. I hope this book will be well received and will serve as a testament to the legacy of fabric in this truly wonderful world of electronic music.’

Author Joe Muggs said: ‘You know how people say, "If these walls could speak..."? Well, after months of interviews, research and writing, I genuinely did feel like those walls deep under Farringdon were sharing their stories of thousands of nights and millions of dancing bodies passing through. fabric is a living entity with a personality all of its own, a constantly evolving work of art in its own right, a channel for collective consciousness, and getting the chance to immerse so deeply in quarter of a century of its life was just glorious.’

Publisher Lee Brackstone said: ‘fabric is not only one of the greatest clubs in the world it is also a place of enormous cultural importance to the UK music scene and this book, published to coincide with celebrations around their 25th anniversary, is a stunning visual and written testament to those achievements. From its pre-fabric days as a cold store wreck in Smithfield’s meat market to countless nights of dancefloor mayhem, the infamous shuttering a decade ago, the glorious re-opening and beyond, this book is a lavish trip down memory lane for clubbers, ex-ravers, and fans of electronic music in all its iterations. Not every club deserves its own coffee-table history; the challenge with telling the fabric story was keeping it to one beautifully designed volume only.’

Standard edition hardback, strictly limited to one-off print run of only 4,000 copies: with beautifully designed full colour interior spreads, silver endpapers, and a case-bound uncoated cover with foil-blocked silver fabric logo.

Record store special edition hardback, strictly limited to 1000 copies: with alternative black cover artwork and endpapers and housed in a bespoke, blind debossed slipcase. Also comes with the long-out-of-circulation fabric 001 mix CD by founding DJ Craig Richards, and an art print reproduction of classic fabric ephemera