13 August 2026: OS MUTANTES & THE TROPICALIA SCENE

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Glossop Record Club is back for our first-ever summer session on Thursday 13 August, continuing last month’s Brazilian vibe and digging deeper into some of the artists featured at that session.

We’ll be exploring the psychedelic sounds of Tropicália, Brazil’s short-lived but hugely influential countercultural movement of the late 1960s. Led by artists including Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, it brought traditional Brazilian music together with psychedelic rock, pop and the classical avant-garde to create a bold and entirely distinctive sound.

At the heart of the movement were Os Mutantes, and we’ll be playing the David Byrne-compiled Everything Is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes on vinyl and in full, alongside key tracks by Veloso, Gil and Gal Costa.

Brazilian journalist Laura Wilke will also be joining us again to provide more background and context to the music and the turbulent times in which it emerged.

Doors open at 8pm, with music from 8.30pm. See you there!

OS MUTANTES & THE TROPICÁLIA SCENE
Thursday 13 August
Glossop Labour Club, 8–11pm
FREE ADMISSION

9 July 2026: A TASTE OF BRAZIL

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We’ll be bringing a summer vibe to Glossop Labour Club on Thursday 9 July, as we take a trip through the music of Brazil’s golden age.

From Tropicalia and Samba, to Bossa Nova and MPB (Música Popular Brasileira), we’ll be playing tracks by Os Mutantes, Jorge Ben Jor, Milton Nascimento, Elis Regina, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque and many others. Along the way you’ll hear familiar sounds and songs, and discover a whole lot more… All on vinyl, of course!

To help guide us through the music, we’ll be joined by Brazilian journalist Laura Wilke, who worked in the cultural sector in Brazil for more than 15 years before moving to the UK. She’ll share some of the stories behind the songs and explain how this remarkable burst of creativity unfolded during a period of political upheaval and strict censorship in the 1960s and 70s.

It’ll be an evening of extraordinary music, powerful stories and joyous rhythms, guaranteed to bring some musical sunshine to town.

Doors 8pm, music starts at 8.30pm. See you there!

A TASTE OF BRAZIL
An evening of Brazilian classics on vinyl
Thursday 9th July
Glossop Labour Club, 8-11pm
FREE ADMISSION

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11 June 2026: BECK – Odelay

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We’re back at Glossop Labour Club on Thursday 11 June when we’ll be playing Beck’s 1996 album Odelay, on vinyl and in full.

Picking up where 1993’s Mellow Gold left off, Beck’s second major label offering is a melting pot of breakbeats, folk, country, garage rock, exotica and a whole lot more, topped off with his customary absurd lyrics, making for an eclectic but cohesive listening experience.

We’ll explore Beck’s pre-Odelay career, picking out tracks from his earlier albums and singles before spinning the album from start to finish.

Doors 8pm, music starts at 8.30. See you there!

BECK – Odelay
Thursday 11th June
Glossop Labour Club, 8-11pm
FREE ADMISSION

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14 May 2026: NME’s C86 – 40th Anniversary

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Glossop Record Club is back at Glossop Labour Club on Thursday 14th May, when we’ll be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the NME‘s era-defining compilation, C86.

Originally released as a cassette (hence the ‘C’) in May 1986 and later that year on vinyl, it rounded up twenty two tracks from new UK and Irish bands on independent record labels including Primal Scream, The Soup Dragons, Stump, Bogshed, The Pastels, Half Man Half Biscuit, Fuzzbox, The Wedding Present and Glossop’s very own Bodines. In the process, it defined an era, a style (jangly, melodic guitar music) and also represented the beginning of indie music as we came to know it.

The session will be hosted by Gavin Hogg, co-author of We Peaked At Paper – An Oral History of British Zines, who’ll be exploring the C86 scene before playing the album in full.

Doors open at 8pm, music starts 8.30. Join us!

NME C86 – 40th Anniversary
Thursday 14th May
Glossop Labour Club, 8-11pm
FREE ADMISSION

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9 April 2026: THE STONE ROSES – The Stone Roses

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We’re back at Glossop Labour Club on Thursday 9 April with an album that needs no introduction, but our host, Brett, will do his best to give it one, along with playing a few tracks and video clips to set the scene, before spinning the album on vinyl and in full. Just don’t call him an amateur.

Doors 8pm, music starts at 8.30. What more do you need to know?! See you there.

THE STONE ROSES
Thursday 9th April
Glossop Labour Club, 8-11pm
FREE ADMISSION

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12 March 2026: THE SLITS – Cut

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We’re back at Glossop Labour Club on Thursday 12th March, marking International Women’s Day with a night dedicated to the pioneering women of punk.

Our host, Lyn Lockwood, will feature tracks by the likes of Patti Smith, Siouxsie Sioux, X-Ray Spex and more, before playing The Slits debut album ‘Cut’ on vinyl and in full. Fusing post-punk, reggae and dub with uncompromising and defiant lyrics, it’s influence has continued to be felt on generations of musicians since.

Join us in the labour club from 8pm, music starts at 8.30. See you there and don’t do a runner!

THE SLITS – Cut
Thursday 12th March
Glossop Labour Club, 8-11pm
FREE ADMISSION

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12 February 2026: PINK FLOYD – Wish You Were Here

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We’re back at Glossop Labour Club on Thursday 12th February when we’ll be spinning Pink Floyd‘s 1975 classic album, Wish You Were Here on vinyl and in full.

The follow-up to Dark Side Of The Moon and dominated by the Syd Barrett-inspired Shine On You Crazy Diamond, the session will be hosted by journalist and founder of the Borley Rectory and Sensory Leakage labels, Simon Berkovitch (who hosted our Fairport Convention session last year), shining a light on key Floyd cuts that influenced the album and bringing a psychedelic happening to Glossop Record Club.

Doors 8pm, music starts at 8.30. See you there!

PINK FLOYD – Wish You Were Here
Thursday 12th February
Glossop Labour Club, 8-11pm
FREE ADMISSION

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**DATE CHANGE** 15 January 2026: DAVID BOWIE – Station To Station

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**THIS SESSION HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY 15 JANUARY**

Happy New Year, record clubbers! We have a jam packed 2026 in store for you and kick off the New Year on Thursday 15th January, when we’ll be marking the 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s Station To Station, with a playback of the album on vinyl and in full.

Recorded in Los Angeles in late 1975, we’ll explore the making of the album, the sounds that influenced it and what else Bowie was up to that year.

Doors open 8pm, music starts at 8.30. See you there!

DAVID BOWIE – Station To Station
Thursday 15th January 2026
Glossop Labour Club, 8-11pm
FREE ADMISSION

11 December 2025: CHRISTMAS SOCIAL & Vinyl Secret Santa

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Join us on Thursday 11th December for our annual Christmas Social. We’ll be taking it easy with a few Christmas tunes, an open deck for anyone who fancies spinning some records and of course, the return of Vinyl Secret Santa (see below for the rules – stay classy, good people). It’s a chance for all you record clubbers to hang and chat.

We’ll be accepting food donations for Glossopdale Foodbank too. There’s a collection point at the labour club, so please drop your donations in there.

It all kicks off at 8pm at Glossop Labour Club. See you there!

CHRISTMAS SOCIAL including Vinyl Secret Santa
Thursday 11th December
Glossop Labour Club, 8-11pm
FREE ADMISSION

13 November 2025: Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

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We’re back at Glossop Labour Club on Thursday 13 November when we’ll be exploring the groundbreaking work of electronic music composer Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

Glossop-based sound artist Clare Savory will lead the session, taking in well-known and more obscure pieces composed for radio and television by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, including an early collaboration with producer George Martin. However, the main focus will be on the work of Delia Derbyshire, including the experimental cult classic ‘An Electric Storm’ by White Noise.

Clare writes:

Best known for her uncredited work on the first rendition of the Doctor Who theme tune, Delia Derbyshire was a radical pioneer with her music concrete style of sampling and manipulating using early Modular synth systems and splicing tape loops.

As part of the session, we’ll playing part of one of the rarest long form releases of her work: Inventions for Radio.

It was wild at its time when first aired on BBC radio in the mid 1960s. A haunted soundscaped vox pop of very ordinary people (not classic RP accents!) talking about ordinary things like dreams and what they believe the after life looks like. Listeners complained in their droves that they couldn’t understand the accents or what these ‘common’ people were saying!

Combining and crafting soundscapes with speech is what I do for a day job but it’s brilliant to imagine just how revolutionary this art form must have been when it first came out.

Clare will have a wobbulator on hand (one of Delia’s trusty sound manipulation tools) and there will also be a tape loop demonstration. What could go wrong?!

Doors 8pm. The sounds start at 8.30. See you there.

DELIA DERBYSHIRE & THE BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP
Thursday 13th November
Glossop Labour Club, 8-11pm
FREE ADMISSION

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