25 years after it opened, the club's founders recount how its groundbreaking sounds underground atmosphere made it an instant hit in the age of the superclub
25 years after it opened, the club's founders recount how its groundbreaking sounds underground atmosphere made it an instant hit in the age of the superclubSlipping out of Farringdon’s shiny new Elizabeth Line station, and heading around a couple of corners, I’m swept up in a Proustian rush, asSome 15 years ago, I used to see this sight in the twilight at the other end of the day, as part of a dishevelled, sweaty mass shuffling out through the metallic double doors of Fabric nightclub and...
I am also joined by Fabric co-founder Cameron Leslie. I ask him if it feels like 25 years. “Yes, it does!” he says with a laugh. “Part of doing the book is going on that strange journey of digging through physical archives, and the archives of your own and other people’s brains. When you do that, time bends very strangely. Some things feel like an absolute lifetime ago, and other things you can’t believe it’s been so long.
was an immediate hit. “In the first year, we got voted best in the world by one magazine,” Leslie tells me.I proffer that the late 90s feels like one of the last time periods that you could experiment like that in the capital – by the 00s, former industrial spaces like Fabric were turned into executive apartments, rents were raised, complaints from gentrified neighbourhoods trickled in.
As someone who was only ever a punter, it doesn’t feel to me as if London has been very friendly to club culture, much to its detriment. Licencing laws, sound complaints, and stingy hours have worked to. “Through any time I’ve experienced, never ever celebrated the club culture in the way that Berlin or even… well I was going to say NYC, but they’ve been pretty hostile to their clubs,” replies Muggs.
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