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 2026

• 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 2025/26 Schedule

Monday 29th September

The Rolling Stones & 1967

1967 is a fulcrum year in the history of rock and pop. It’s also the year that the Stones almost came undone. We’ll trace how pop became art and how just another showbiz soap opera became The Greatest Rock’n’Roll Band In the World. 

Monday 27th October 2025

Tunes At An Exhibition: Music in the Museums of London

From The British Museum to the National Gallery, we’re off on a guided tour of London’s exhibition spaces tailored for music fans. We’ll also look at a few dedicated music museums further afield. 

Monday 24th November 2025

Myths and Legends: The Business of Not Letting The Truth Get In The Way Of A Good Story

King Henry VIII wrote Greensleeves… Tchaikovsky was murdered because he was gay… Paul McCartney is dead and always has been… Judy Garland was born in a trunk in the Princes Theatre in Pochatela, Idaho… Listening to Mozart, the composer who was definitely murdered by Salieri, in the womb will make you a genius in later life. 

The blurred lines between mythology and truth in the history of music.  

Monday 29th December 2025

It’s Christmastime…. The Story of Live Aid.

From a terraced house in Chelsea to the world via Wembley & Philadelphia, the story of Live Aid in its 40th anniversary year. Along the way we’ll also look at other fund-raising musical endeavours. Thanks to club member Elke for the suggestion. 

Monday 26th January 2026

Heathrow to Leicester Square: A musical history journey from the airport to the West End along the Piccadilly Line.

Monday 30th March 2026

Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?

You know the concept: who would you invite to your fantasy dinner party?

12th century composer and polymath Hildegard Von Bingen is hosting a dinner party. John Lennon is invited. But who else is coming to dinner? Drop me a line with your fantasy musical dinner party guests. Thanks to club member Ian for the suggestion. 

Members also get access to the archive to watch on demand…

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!

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)

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.

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.

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)

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 2026 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.