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What’s the ‘matter’ with this new venue at the O2?

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 | Event Preview, News | 1 Comment

Nothing at all that’s what. Those folks at Fabric are close to unveiling their new project ‘matter’, a purpose built venue/club where their aim was to create “the most vivid and palpable audio, visual kinaesthetic experience imaginable”. Sounds complicated!

Set across three floors covering 32,737 sq ft, matter has a humongous capacity of 2,600. They’ve installed a body kinetic dancefloor which apparently pumps the music to your feet through an array of audio to kinetic transducers embedded into the dancefloor. Apparently it’s an evolution of Fabric’s body sonic dancefloor. I always thought it was just a really weak floor with a massive system. Shows what I know.

As well as making you feel the music matter will let you see the music through a 360 degree projection system mapped to the interior architecture, allowing all surfaces to be projected on. No doubt the audio quality will be of the highest caliber if Fabric is anything to go by. With audio, visual and feel covered off they just need to come up with something to make you smell the music rather than all those smoking ban farts.

In terms of lineups you can expect matter to deliver the best in live and club music. Their live launch party features James Lavelle’s legendary UNKLE whilst the club launch plays host to big boy Carl Cox who rarely plays London these days. Over the opening months the likes of Mylo, Renaissance with Sasha, Bedrock with John Digweed, Simian Mobile Disco and Justice will all be passing through the doors.

So matter looks set to keep us highly entertain through those winter months. Who said winter blues, not matter.

www.matterlondon.com

September

19th – Live Launch Night – UNKLE Live, Late Of The Pier Live , Iglu & Hartley Live, Huw Stephens (Radio 1) (£20)

20th – Club Launch Night – Carl Cox, Kissy Sell Out, Yousef & More TBA (£18)

26th – Mylo, Reverend and The Makers Live, Casino Royale Live, Riotous Rockers more TBA (£15)

27th – Renaissance – Sasha, Marcus James. Room 2: CR2 Live & Direct – Mark Brown, Micky Slim, Steve Mac, Arno Cost (£16)

October

2nd – Mousetrap Party: Deadmau5 Live, Chris Lake (£12.50)

3rd – This is Not London – Simian Mobile Disco (£15 Early Bird, £20 Door)

10th – BedRock 10th Anniversary – John Digweed (All night) (Limited £10 tickets)

17th – This Is Not London – Southern Fried Records, Armand Van Helden

(£15 Early Bird, £20 Door)

18th – This Is Not London – Moshi Moshi Records Label Party

(£15 Early Bird, £20 Door)

24th – This Is Not London – James Murphy (£15 Early Bird, £20 Door)

31st – This Is Not London – details TBA (£15 Early Bird, £20 Door)

Tags: Bedrock, Carl Cox, Fabric, John Digweed, Justice, matter, O2 Arena, Renaissance, Sasha, Simian Mobile Disco