fabric announces book telling its 25-year history

Legendary London club fabric is set to celebrate its 25-year anniversary by releasing a 300-page book titled fabric.

Published by White Rabbit, it’s written by Joe Muggs and features more than 100 testimonies from DJs closely linked to the club, as well fabric staff members, plus plenty of rare photography and the club’s beloved artwork. There’s also an introduction by Bill Brewster and a foreword from Annie Mac.

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Speaking about the book, 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.”

Three editions will be available, with the first standard edition hardback out on December 3, priced at £50 and limited to 4,000 copies.

Two special editions will follow on December 17. The record store special edition hardback comes with alternative cover art, endpapers, a blind debossed slipcase, art prints of classic fabric ephemera, and a copy of the long-out-of-circulation compilation mix CD ‘fabric 001’ by Craig Richards. It’s limited to 1,000 copies with the price set at £99.

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The ‘Super Deluxe White Rabbit Edition’ is limited to 500 copies and priced at £349, available only from the online stores of fabric and White Rabbit. Its features include alternative foil-blocked, off-white cover artwork and a blind debossed real cloth slipcase, with the package also coming with the sold-out ‘fabric 100’ release (four LPs by Burial and Kode9), an exclusive reproduction of fabric’s 25th birthday poster, four prints classic fabric artwork, a pin badge, slipmnat, and reproduction of the fabric silver pendant on a leather thong designed by Tom McEwan, which was originally gifted to just 99 people in 1999 on the opening of the club and never before commercially available.

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.”

Pre-order fabric here.

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