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White Rabbit celebrates 25th anniversary of London nightclub, fabric
White Rabbit has snapped up Joe Muggs’ fabric: The Book, a celebration of the eponymous London nightclub in its 25th anniversary year.
Publisher Lee Brackstone acquired world rights, excluding the US and Canada, in collaboration with fabric, from fabric life limited. It will be published on 3rd December with two special editions to follow on 17th December.
The standard edition hardback will be limited to a one-off print run of 4,000 copies. Retailing at £50, this edition will feature full-colour interior spreads, silver endpapers and a case-bound uncoated cover with foil-blocked silver fabric logo.
Only 1,000 copies of the record store special edition hardback will be available for purchase through select retail partners and the fabric and publisher websites. This edition will boast a bespoke slipcase, black cover artwork and endpapers and come with a fabric 001 mix CD by DJ Craig Richards, along with an art print of the classic fabric ephemera.
The super deluxe White Rabbit edition, limited to 500 copies, will be published with unique artwork, a cloth slipcase and customised packaging containing a reproduction of fabric’s 25th birthday poster, four art prints, a pin badge and slip mat alongside a fabric silver pendant designed by Tom McEwan. It is priced at £349 and only available on the fabric and White Rabbit websites.
fabric will feature stories about the club’s origins, struggles and successes with "rare" photography and "iconic" artwork.
Muggs’ "oral history" brings together comments from "legendary" DJs associated with the nightclub. The book will be published with a foreword from DJ Annie Mac and an introduction by DJ Bill Brewster.
Muggs said: "fabric is a living entity with a personality all 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 a quarter of a century of its life was just glorious."
Brackstone added: "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 is a stunning visual and written testament to those achievements. 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."
