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.
Then from May to September MNMHC Live Events will take place on the last Monday of every month to explore a London neighbourhood from a musical angle.
Monday Evening Virtual Events September 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.
Non-members are welcome to attend the virtual events – the cost to non-members will be £8 per event.*
For MNMHC Members the virtual events are FREE as part of your membership subscription and will be available to view on demand.
Special Offers May to September
Discounts & selected free tours will be available to members on selected walking tours.
An archive of the 12 previous episiodes from series 1 & 2 is available to members to watch on demand
Membership
Membership costs £24 per year. Monday Night Music History Club members will receive…
• 50% discount on all Monday Night Music History Club live walk & talk events (non-members price £20, membership price £10)
• 50% discount to selected London Music Tours throughout the year
• Priority booking for all Live Monday Night Music History Club events
• Free entry to 5 virtual events a year
• Virtual events will be made available to watch on demand
• Early updates on all new London Music Tours
• First option to book Limited Edition London Music Tours
• 10% discount when booking private tours
• 12 episode archive available to watch on demand – nearly 18 hours of content
*Non-members will not have access to the watch-on-demand archive.
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The 2026/27 Schedule
The 2026/27 Zoom season looks like this…
Monday 28th September 2026 – The Rolling Stones in 1969 – 7.30pm London time
Monday 26th October – Music & Crime – 7.30pm London time
Monday 30th November – 50 Years of Punk in London – 7.30pm London time
Monday 4th January 2027 – Bowie at 80 – 7.30pm London time
Monday 2th January 2027 – Hits of the Blitz – 7.30pm London time
Tuesday 30th March 2027 – A Great Big Musical Pub Crawl – 7.30pm London time
Monday 26th April 2027 – Music & the Natural World – 7.30pm London time
Monday 28th September The Stones in 1969
Last year we followed the Stones in 1967, from Morocco to Chichester Magistrates Court to Wormwood Scrubs*. A rock’n’roll annus horribilis unmatched in the story of rock and pop to this point. Surely things can only get better for the World’s Greatest Rock’n’Roll Band…
We’ll pick up our heroes in late ’68, at a childish, seemingly innocuous custard pie fight in South Kensington. By the end of 1969, The Stones’ inner circle will have been rocked by two deaths – one of them a murder, the other surrounded in conspiracy. There’s more trouble with the long arm of the law and a miscarriage and a suicide attempt.
In the mix we’ll also find two of their greatest albums: Beggar’s Banquet and Let It Bleed. We’ll end in December 1969 when the Stones closed the Saville Theatre, barely a week after bringing the curtain down on the 1960s with their infamous gig at Altamont.
*Members can catch-up with the 1967 episode on demand in the archive
Monday 26th October Music & Crime
The Charge: Light Fingers, Trigger Fingers and More…
Whodunnit? Everyone from Ivor Novello to Ozzy Osbourne.
Motive: Jealousy. Greed. Ego. Drugs. You know, the usual.
Modis Operandi: Guns. Knives. Sticks. Stones. Their bare hands. You name it.
Verdict: Guilty.
Sentence: They will be taken from this court to a Zoom meeting on the last Monday of the month, to plead their cases before the members of The Monday Night Music History Club – unless His Majesty should otherwise order in the manner authorised by law. May the Lord have mercy on their souls.
This episode was requested by club member Carl Birkmeyer
Monday 30th November 50 Years of Punk In London
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of The Sex Pistols’ infamous, drunken, expletive-laden teatime TV interview with Bill Grundy, we remember The Filth and the Fury.
Track listing to be drawn from The Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Slits. London is our focus but we’ll also head for the Lower East Side of Manhattan for The Ramones. Roots, influences, politics, places and more.
This meeting will form the basis for a new walking tour in 2027.
This episode & subsequent tour was requested by club member Ian Grieve
Monday 4th January 2027 Bowie at 80
January 2027 sees the 80th anniversary to David Bowie’s birth. I’m staging two Bowie in 60s London walking tours (on January 8th and 9th) and members are welcome to come and join either of those tours for free.
This edition of The MNMHC is a companion to those tours and we’ll go beyond the 60s to early 70s London and late 70s Berlin.
Monday 25th January Hits of the Blitz
Music, theatre and how we kept smiling through September 1939 to May 1945.
Music and comedy with The Crazy Gang at the Victoria Palace… Jazz with the arrival of the Americans in 1943… Big band sounds with Major Glenn Miller… Classical recitals at the National Gallery… censorship at the BBC. How did Londoners entertain themselves during their darkest, yet finest hour?
This episode was inspired by a book, London’s War by Sayre Van Young, gifted to me by club members John & Darby from Portland, Oregon – and will form the basis for a new walking tour in 2027.
Tuesday 30th March A Great Big Musical Pub Crawl
Going back to basics for this one. Maps and travel tips to find bars, pubs, holes-in-the-wall, restaurants, cafés, greasy spoons, saloons, tea rooms… anywhere that history has witnessed musical visits or shenanigans. Some will be going concerns (I’ll review where appropriate), some will be long-gone locations.
From Taylor Swift to Franz Schubert. Sup up your beer and collect your fags* (Brit Eng slang: cigarettes). It’s my round.
*Opening line from Eton Rifles (1980) by The Jam, written by Paul Weller
Monday 26th April Music & the Natural World
The last meeting of the season is a rite of spring.
Music and the seasons. Music and the animal kingdom. Inspiration and history, stories and legends. The structure has been inspired by Hannah French’s excellent book The Rolling Year, a wide-ranging, accessible and fascinating analysis of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
This episode was requested by MNMHC member Deborah Gold – her original suggestion being Music & Birdsong
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Any Queries? Drop Me A Line…
For the rest of the London Music Tours schedule click HERE
For my non-music themed tours visit the London Walks website HERE