REM event in Harrogate tonight via Zoom

Each session features a different classic album on powerful vintage audio equipment with a talk and specially curated video.

Tonight it is the turn of REM with special focus on their 18 million selling Automatic For The People album.

The band's 1992 release was its eighth studio album and spawned five hit singles, including Everybody Hurts and Man on the Moon, when REM were at the height of global mainstream success.

Admission, via Eventbrite, is free, though a donation of £5 to Friends of Harrogate Hospital is suggested via a PayPal button on the Vinyl Sessions website.

Previous Vinyl Sessions events have featured bestselling albums from the 1960s to late 1990s including Led Zeppelin IV, ELO’s Out of The Blue, Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms, The Beatles Sgt Pepper, Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, The Who’s Who’s Next, Oasis’s What’s The Story, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and Blondie’s Parallel Lines.

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A night devoted to David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust in 2018 even saw a personal appearance by the album's producer Ken Scott who was interviewed on stage by Graham Chalmers of the Harrogate Advertiser .

So far, the monthly Vinyl Sessions events, held at Starling Starling Independent Bar Cafe Kitchen during normal times, have raised £12,000 for charity in the last two years.

Presented by hi-fi expert and organiser Colin Paine with a talk by Graham Chalmers and a video by Jim Hobbs, the event will start at 7.30pm approximately.

The following Wednesday, April 22, the featured album will be ELO's chart-topping Discovery (1979).

For more details, visit www.vinylsessions.org

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