The Monday Night Music History Club

Hosted by Adam

Welcome to The Monday Night Music History Club – a new way to Step In Time On A Music History Tour

What is the Monday Night Music History Club?

The Monday Night Music History Club’s mission: to explore music history and music locations in the company of like-minded people. The events are curated and led by an award-winning, experienced, qualified, expert tour guide.

From October to April we’ll meet online via Zoom for a virtual tour and a bit of a chat about music history and places.

 

The Monday Evening Virtual Events October to March

Virtual events take place at 7.30pm (1930) on the last Monday of the month online via Zoom.

Each episode will be archived and available to watch on demand for members.

 

Membership

Membership costs £24 per year. Monday Night Music History Club members will receive…

• 50% discount on selected tours with Adam in spring & summer 2025

• Virtual events will be made available to watch on demand

• Early updates on all new London Music Tours with London Walks

• First option to book Limited Edition London Music Tours

• 10% discount when booking private tours

 

 

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The 2024/25 Schedule

October 2024

Monday 28th October 7.30pm (1930) GMT

Record Shops

The Monday Night Music History Club launches with a record shop/record store special… do you remember the first time? Did a parent or elder sibling take you to your first record shop? Were you spending a Record Token? Your pocket money?

Did you know that when Morrissey stated that he “was looking for a job and then he found a job/And heaven knows I’m miserable now” the job was in a record shop? Or that R.E.M’s Peter Buck met Mick Mills working a record store?

We’ll look at the history of the HMV store on London’s Oxford Street; we’ll also find the location of the first jazz record store in the UK.

And we’ll point you in the direction of the best record stores in London today. Any suggestions? Bring along stories of you’re favourites and we’ll compile a database and map of the very best

Reading & Listening

Every month on the Monday Night Music History Club we’ll zoom-in on a record and/or book and /or film related to our theme.

This month we’ll look at Nick Hornby’s novel High Fidelity and the John Cusack movie of the book

You may like to read/watch Hi Fidelity – but it’s NOT compulsory (no homework!). We’ll take care to discuss the story with no spoilers!

November

Monday 25th November 7.30pm (1930) GMT

Spooky Radio Nite

The Devil, so they say, has all the best tunes… and in November’s Monday Night Music History Club we’ll join hands and contact the links between music and the occult.

Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page will naturally take centre stage. We’ll look at the macabre prelude to Summer of Love here in London with legendary indy record producer and electronica pioneer Joe Meek’s death in 1967. And we’ll explore all points of the pentangle from Richard Strauss’ Salome to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The idea for this instalment of the Monday Night Music History Club grew out of a listening party that Adam hosted on Twitter way back in 2016. It then became one of my first pandemic live events on Facebook and has even gone out as a walking tour.

Reading & Listening

In this episode we will take a look at…

Book: Anno Dracula by Kim Newman (1992)

Movie: Dracula AD 1972 (1972 Directed by Alan Gibson and Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing & Stephanie Beecham)

Records: Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (1970) The Cramps – Songs The Lord Taught Us (1980)

December

Monday 30th December 7.30pm (1930) GMT

Saturday Night At The Movies

We’re on the other side of the festivities, so let’s take a look at a few music movies to see us through the winter nights. Biopics, docos, dramas, small screen too.

The MNMHC Film Festival will look at 10 music-themed movies and map out a few locations for you to spot as you head out into the streets of London. Including Quadrophenia, That’ll Be The Day/Stardust and two big screen hits from the last year, now on home entertainment for the winter – One Love and Back To Black.

Watch: Any music movie that you love – share your review and recommendation if you like.

January 2025

Monday 27th January 7.30pm (1930) GMT

The Word – Music In Print

A music books special. Biographies, dirt-dishing exposés, fiction, history, guide books – everything is up for grabs in this print special. Content confirmed so far includes Daisy Jones and the Six (by Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019), The Final Revival of Opal and Nev (by Dawne Walton 2021), Sympathy For The Devil (by William Shaw 2017), Stoned and 2 Stoned (by Andrew Loog Oldham 2000 and 2002) and The Longest Cocktail Party (by Richard de Lillo 1972).

Reading: Any music book that you love – you can share your review and recommendation if you like.

February 2025

No tour.

March 2025

Monday 31st March 7.30pm (1930) GMT

Going Anywhere Nice On Yer Holidays?

Planning your travels? Or compiling that bucket list? This edition of TMNMHC looks as musical destinations. Whether you plan your trips around music, or simply find delight in musical history as-and-when it crosses your path, this episode looks ahead to the summer holidays/vacation and offers tips ind insider info for the musical traveller.

Reading & Listening

In this episode we will take a look at…

Book: True Adventures of the Rolling Stones – by Stanley Booth (1984)

Movie: Almost Famous (2000) and Spinal Tap (1984)

April 2025

Monday 28th April 7.30pm (1930) GMT

The Beggar’s Opera

John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera is widely acknowledged as the source of the modern stage musical. In this episode we’ll trace its origins and look at the 18th Century London that inspired its picaresque narrative – from politics to morality and music. We’ll then look at the music it went on to inspire.

Reading & Listening

In this episode we will take a look at…

Movie: The Beggar’s Opera – 1953 film starring Laurence Olivier and BBC TV version (1983) starring Roger Daltrey

Records: The Threepenny Opera (Kurt Weill) – 1976 Broadway Cast Recording

 

In 2025 Adam will also be hosting a few Monday Night Music History Club LIVE events – and all members will be eligible for a 50% discount on those.