“One of the world’s great albums, played on one of the world’s finest hi-fi systems in conjunction with one of the world’s best hi-fi stores.”
Classic Album Sundays: A Communal and Audiophile Listening Experience is joining forces with Loud & Clear Hi-Fi again for this now semi-regular event in Glasgow.
Listed as one of the Top 20 Trends of 2012 by London’s ES Magazine, Classic Album Sundays has become a media sensation in a little over a year. With features on BBC Breakfast, BBC 6 Music, NME, Elle, The Word, The Independent, The Evening Standard and more. Why all the fuss?
The concept is to enable people to experience music as close as possible to the way the artist intended, to treat music as a precious commodity and a classic album as a work of art which should be appreciated in its entirety. Classic Album Sundays’ use audiophile hi-fi equipment to ensure an awe inspiring listening experience. Visitors are invited to switch off their phones and refrain from unnecessary conversation: just sit back, listen and immerse themselves in the experience.
Music fans have enthusiastically responded en masse as Classic Album Sundays’ monthly listening sessions in London and New York have been selling out, with festival sessions featuring at The Vintage Festival at the Royal Festival Hall in London (for which Loud & Clear put together a £130,000 hi-fi system), plus Camp Bestival and Bestival amongst others.
From 5.30pm at The Berkley Suites, on Sunday the 26th of January 2014, you can turn up to listen to some of the music which inspired the great man. At 7.30pm, the lights go down, the volume goes up and they play Lou Reed’s classic Transformer from beginning to end on a reference Linn hi-fi system, using the iconic Sondek LP12 turntable with a reference Klimax Kontrol pre-amplifier and Linn’s “black ops” custom made PA system. Copies of the vinyl will be also be available for sale on the night.
Lou Reed altered musical consciousness and set us on a new path of musical discovery. His experimental band The Velvet Underground inspired hoardes of musicians and may be rock history’s most cited as an influence. Reed’s songwriging may have continued the rock-poet tradition of Bob Dylan but instead he turned his cool gaze toward the characters who lived on the fringes of society with detached narratives that relayed the tales of New York City’s night creatures.
More information on the event can be found at classicalbumsundays.com and loud-clear.co.uk.
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