It’s September 2013, a Saturday evening, and I’m at Hayes & Harlington station, about to Google Map my way through an office-block-filled maze to a secluded destination where loud music, soft bean bags and Trooper beer await, at a new vinyl LP listening club called Classic Album Sundays.
At an outbuilding by The Old Vinyl Factory, formerly EMI’s enormous HQ and, fittingly, record-pressing plant, excited metal fans are hovering. Then it’s time to file in, grab a drink and flop out as Classic Album Sundays founder Colleen Murphy and Classic Rock/ Louder contributor Dom Lawson play a selection of 70s rock and NWOBHM sounds in the run-up to an informal ‘lecture’ presenting Iron Maiden’s Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, released on the EMI label and pressed in this very factory in 1988.