Fans of Fabric came out to support the nightclub during a licensing battle in 2016

LANDMARK nightclub Fabric has already sold out a “reopening” weekend, but is waiting for further guidance from the government on what Covid rules will be in place.

The club in Charterhouse Street, Farringdon, is one of London’s best known and has a global reputation in the dance music world.

Its management is itching to get the doors back open again after more than a year of enforced closure due to the Covid pandemic.

And tickets have already all gone for the 1,600-capacity nightspot’s proposed return to action on Friday June 25. It’s first event will be a 10pm to 10am session.

And this will be followed by a marathon event running from 10pm on the Saturday evening right through Sunday and on to 4am on Monday.

However, this all hinges on the government’s “roadmap” for relaxing lockdown rules going to plan.

While pubs and restaurants have had glimpses of reopening during different stages of the crisis – including over the past few weeks – nightclubs have always been warned that they will face one of the longest waits to reopen.

Club director Cameron Leslie said: “We don’t yet know what clubs, after June 21, have to do. The guidance so far is that everything will go back at some degree of normality. Once we get guidance, we’ll know what’s going to be required.”

Top DJs Terry Francis and Craig Richards have long-standing residencies at the venue, which first opened in 1999.

Some music venues have considered membership cards or Covid vaccine passports, but Mr Leslie said they have no plans to limit entry this way.

The club received a £1.5million support grant from the Arts Council, which has helped it through the 12 months of silence on the club’s two dance floors.

Mr Leslie said: “We’ve been very lucky. We feel blessed we were given the support of the Arts Council, which has helped us stabilise and hopefully get ourselves through to re-opening.”

He said tickets were now available for other dates, but all plans were reliant on Covid cases remaining low.

“We have got events on sale after that, but this is based on the premise that we will be able to re-open on Friday 25,” Mr Leslie said.

The club has a loyal army of fans, many of whom supported the club through a licensing battle in 2016 which had put it at risk of closure.

They raised more than £300,000 to help pay for legal fees at that time.

The Music Venue Trust (MVT), which has been pushing for support during the coronavirus crisis, warned that many clubs have not enjoyed the same level of support.

MVT director Beverly Whitrick said: “We are grateful to Arts Council England, who worked so hard to deliver the fund, and to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport for listening to the needs of the sector.

“However, as with all grant funding, this news is hard on those venues which were ineligible due to the structure of their business or have not been established long enough to provide the accounts required, and on those who applied but were unsuccessful, or awarded only a small percentage of the money they need.”