York Musicians Social Group

ALBUM CLUB (see description)

Mon, Feb 9 · 19:30 GMT

The Exhibition Hotel, 19 Bootham, YORK, GB

Please contribute £2 each time you attend a social if you're able to. There will be a card reader at some socials, otherwise you can use one of the links below. Thank you ❤

PayPal (preferable, if you have a PayPal account) - https://paypal.me/ymsg1

Buy Me A Coffee - https://buymeacoffee.com/ymsg

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Like a book club, but with albums!

This month's Album Club happens to fall on the group's third birthday 🤩, so I thought it's a good excuse to do something a bit different. We'll have a short quiz or game and the winner can then choose which album we listen to. There might also be cake. I've set a slightly earlier start so there's more time for frivolity.

We meet in the conservatory room at the Exhibition Hotel (on Bootham) – the room is right at the back of the pub, past the bar and out towards the garden. If you have any questions, or any trouble finding us, please text/call on: 07579 091 836

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How does it work?

We usually select two albums per month - a 'main' album, plus a personal recommendation from a member.

We meet on the second Monday of the month. We announce the albums in advance, so you have the option to listen in your own time, but we also play them as background music at the social.

At each meeting, everyone has the opportunity to nominate a 'main' album for the next month's meeting, which we then vote on.

Similarly to most book clubs, discussion of the albums generally takes up a pretty small proportion of the evening! We have even been known to forget to bring them up entirely... So please feel free to join us regardless of how interested you are in this month’s albums. It's really just a fun way to get together and share recommendations at the same time, and we always love having new people.

Having said all that, if you'd like a more interesting and profound description of Album Club, along with quotes and general nostalgia, please read the below from our most loyal member...

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And now, the optional deep bit: technology has revolutionised our lives. But it also means we have almost unlimited choices - and "the paradox of choice suggests that an abundance of options actually requires more effort to choose and can leave us feeling unsatisfied with our choice" (thanks, Google). For example... music! If a song doesn't grab you on the first listen, why would you listen to it again, when Spotify has 100 million songs available for no extra cost or energy? "Next..." Albums - particularly those widely considered to be classics - are created as a unit, with songs in a particular order by design, and we believe that an album is an important milestone in an artist's career as well as a document of the time in which it was made; as well as being the soundtrack to many lives, possibly including some of the members of this group. Album Club is a way to set aside time to choose and talk about some of these albums: what they mean to us, or even what we thought of our first - and possibly only - listen.

PLAYLIST CLUB - Theme: 'Music that makes you want to dance'

Tue, Feb 24 · 20:00 GMT

The Exhibition Hotel, 19 Bootham, YORK, GB

Please contribute £2 each time you attend a social if you're able to. There will be a card reader at most socials, or you can use one of the links below. Thank you ❤

PayPal (preferable, if you have a PayPal account) - https://paypal.me/ymsg1

Buy Me A Coffee - https://buymeacoffee.com/ymsg

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Each month we choose a 'theme' for a playlist. Anyone who wants to can suggest a song of that theme to be added. We'll have it playing at the social and send out the track list, so everyone can listen/enjoy/discuss the songs. Anyone is of course welcome to join, regardless of if they've contributed to that month's playlist.

For this social, we meet at The Exhibition in the conservatory room - you find it if you keep going right to the back of the pub, towards the garden.