BEST OF BRITISH Best Large / Small Clubs
Champions of
Best
the underground
LARGE CLUB
Fabric,
Cutting-edge London club Fabric is your
London
favourite large weekend haunt.
F
rom market place to market For weekly resident DJ Craig Richards, the
leader, London’s Fabric has thread keeping Fabric together is the
redefi ned what clubbing in the UK underground.
is all about. A club that has spawned two “The punch behind Fabric is that we’ve
labels — Fabric and Fabric Live — their represented underground dance music
ability to spot production, genre and and given it a really big voice and that’s
DJing trends ahead of anybody else is attracted a large amount of people to an
second to none. interesting area of dance music, whether
For many DJs, Fabric is considered the it’s house, techno or electro.
benchmark against which other clubs the “When Fabric opened it’s doors it had a
world over are measured. Terry Francis, really big job to do but I think it
Tayo, Scratch Perverts, DJ Hype, LTJ succeeded. People are listening to
Bukem, Ivan Smagge, Guy Williams, Lisa different music and I’m really proud of
German, DJ Hell and Ewan Pearson are Fabric’s role in that.
just some of the DJs whose beats have
stitched together a weekend in the “Fabric is a very consistent place,” adds
cavernous venue. Richards. “We do try and place equal
It may be seven years since Keith Reilly emphasis on everything. The club will be
founded the now famous club but it’s eight years old in October and I’m excited
music policy remains as cutting-edge as that it’s remained incredibly successful.
ever, catering for tech-house, breakbeat, We just try to follow the music.”
post-punk-meets-disco, hip-hop, drum & KATE WILDBLOOD *
bass and twisted electro.
For him, it’s encapsulated by Basics
distinctive logo.
The other
“Our logo was stolen from Jamie Reid’s
nominees:
seminal Sex Pistols image but instead of
saying the ‘Sex Pistols God Save The
Best Large Club
Queen’ it reads ‘Back To Basics Two Steps
Digital
Further Than Any Other Fucker’.
Ministry
“It’s very important for us to be a part of
the British club scene with our punk rock
Pressure
ethics and underground values,” refl ects
@ The Arches
Dave (pictured). “Considering we are now
Sankeys
Britain’s longest running club night I feel
Technique
there is no getting away from it. Rule
@ Warehouse
Britannia!”
Best
Yes, God bless Basics. In the hands of
Best Small Club
SMALL CLUB
Beer and co. Leeds leads and he’s chuffed
DDD
Back T
o Basics,
to be part of it. And Dave reckons British @ The Key, London
clubbing has never been healthier or
Lee
ds
more creative.
Fwd
@ Plastic People, London
“I’m loving the marriage between live
bands and dance music at the moment. Optimo
@ Sub Club, Glasgow
Basic instinct
It’s something I have always been into
but it’s a very exciting time again, artists
Movement
have been really creative in taking dance
@ Bar Rhumba, London
Dave Beer and his crew lead when it
music into a live format, calling it
nu-rave. You can call it what you want but
Stompaphunk
comes to creating dancefl oor carnage.
right here and now that is where it’s at.
@ Audio, Brighton
“Most of the best things — from music
F
ounded 15 years ago, Back To the decks and residency status secured through to fashion and art — have come Where do you have your best
Basics put the balls into Leeds for Ralph Lawson, Paul Woolford, James from the streets of England,” reckons clubbing moments? Which fl oors
clubbing. With a DJ booking policy Holroyd, Tristan Da Cunha, Buckley and Dave. “And where England goes the world rock hardest? Have your say at
that has seen Oakenfold, Sasha, Daft Andrew Weatherall, Dave Beer is clear follows.”
Punk, Basement Jaxx and Knuckles grace why Basics represents the Best of British. *
KATE WILDBLOOD
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