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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Interviews by Lauren Martin

‘There was a catalogue of errors – but once we opened, we were on fire’: how we made Fabric nightclub

‘When we pulled up the matting, the floor came with it’ … Fabric, which opened in 1999.
‘When we pulled up the matting, the floor came with it’ … Fabric, which opened in 1999. Photograph: PYMCA/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

Cameron Leslie, co-founder/co-owner

I was introduced to Keith Reilly [Fabric co-owner] by the landlord of a restaurant I was working with: “This guy wants to do a project in our basement. He’s got some money, but you should go to the bank to get the rest.” We had lunch and sketched down so many plans for a nightclub that we ran out of paper and scrawled all over the tablecloth, which I kept. I admired Keith’s mad genius vision. He needed me to be his “reality-maker”, as he called it.

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