Let there be party: Fabric

77a Charterhouse Street London EC1M 3HN

Everybody who knows me is pretty aware I am not really a fan of electronic music of any type, whatever you wanna call it: drum&bass, house, electro, progressive, Spanish 'bakalao' or any other imaginable variant. I don't like huge clubs, where everybody is completely drugged and the favourite drink at bar is just water.

But I do like Fabric. Oh, yes, I do.

What does it offer? Well, three different rooms, better known by the light colours performed in them: the blue (and main) one, green and red. Let's go after every single one...

1. Green room. If sound could be defined with an object, this one would be a huge screwdriver. Every single clubber here is dancing a weird mezcolanzza of drum&bass and some other stuff. The craziest one, so my favourite one. And the green colour effect is great!



2. Blue room. The main one, where concerts take place. Usually too crowded, good fun anyway.



3. Red room. You can avoid it if you want... they EVEN sing sometimes... what kind of club is that? LOL

But Fabric is not just the rooms... but:

1. People. Surprisingly, and really opposite to what you frequently get in Spain, people are truly friendly. Everybody is in a high mood (well, yeah, maybe some pills around have something to do with that), and you really feel you can enjoy the party the way you prefer and annoying nobody while doing it. That's basically great.

2. The toilets. Good fun. Guys and girls almost together, and in the central corridor a nice fountains collection pouring water in a non stop downloading into everybody's bottle, of course, just in order to drop thirst.

3. The sound. In their website they say they broadcast in low frequency and around the floor in order to make you 'feel' the music. Not too sure if that's true, but friend, you feel it... I've been twice and the first time my ears were burning when I came out. That bloody green room...

4. The venue itself. Built up in brick with some narrow corridors, it looks like an old maze/factory. It's brilliant, indeed.

Of course, it's not perfect. A 330ml Stella bottle is 4 quid (still, cheaper than in most clubs in Spain). Last time we had to wait two hours to go in, hence you should avoid arriving there on Saturday between 1 am and 3 am, as it is when everybody's on the queue. By the way, if you are lucky enough (as we were) to go in just after 4, you get half price cover (from 16 quid to 8 quid, again, cheaper than most Madrid clubs). And finally, there's no off licence around the queue, so, if you wanna drink there, you should bring your own booze in advance.

Some other things about Fabric are just odd. As the sectioned queue which allows to maintain all the shops doors free of people. Or the superb respect to the queue itself, as anybody jumps it (again, the bloody-prof-bouncers have something to do with that).

Anyway. Last Saturday I fabric-ed til 8 am. And it will not be the last one. Quite sure about it.