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Listening group nights, shop demos, showroom evenings and the shows worth travelling for. Run something yourself? Put it here so the people nearby can find it.
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Post a meetup →October 2026
Oct 1–2
Propstore Music Memorabilia live auction
A 391-lot live auction of music memorabilia across two days in London, led by the Musicland Studios Yamaha C3 grand piano at an estimate of £200,000–400,000. Realised prices here are the kind of hard market data the vintage beat otherwise has to guess at.
Oct 3
Making Music — John Baccigaluppi with SASAMI
Tape Op co-founder John Baccigaluppi in conversation with SASAMI, who produces as well as performs, on the making of records. One of five events around the book Making Music: Conversations With Record Producers.
Oct 9
Making Music — Larry Crane with John McEntire
Tape Op editor Larry Crane talks to John McEntire — Tortoise, and the producer-engineer behind a long run of records made in his own rooms. A conversation about method rather than catalogue.
November 2026
Nov 3
Making Music — Larry Crane with Tony Visconti
Tony Visconti in public conversation about how records get made — the producer of Bowie and T. Rex, in a bookshop, for the price of turning up. The strongest of the five book events by some distance.
January 2027
Jan 30
Making Music — Larry Crane with John Baccigaluppi
The two Tape Op founders in conversation with each other, closing the book tour. The last of the five and the only one in 2027.
Shops
All shops →Places to hear it before you buy it, each on a page the shop wrote itself.
Local listening groups
All groups →People who get together to listen: in someone’s front room, the back of a shop, a hired hall. Newcomers are almost always welcome.
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