Waverley Album Listening Event: January 2026

The Waverley Album Club is a free monthly musical fundraiser for Dorothy House Hospice in Chippenham where we listen to vinyl records alongside occasional live music from local artists.

We have some brand new local live music for you from Chippenham’s own Robert McLeod aka Mac Lloyd at the first WALE of 2026 fundraiser for Dorothy House Hospice at the usual time of 8pm sharp on Wednesday January 21st.

He will be bringing his band ‘The Chosen Kin’ to play some tracks live for us from his debut album ‘Hold Fast’ first and then we will listen in full to the whole album on vinyl. It’s an interesting record in that the vinyl was manufactured by a new process technology different from the traditional stamper press method.

The music on the album is all self-composed and is an intriguing and very accessible blend of rootsy americana, blues and soul. The album was launched at the end of November 2025 at a sold-out event at the Old Road Tavern in Chippenham. Copies of the album and other merchandise will be available to buy on the night.

We will finish the evening by remembering and talking about the work of David Robert Jones, better known as David Bowie, who left us ten years ago on January 10th 2016. We have chosen to pair the Mac Lloyd record with Bowie’s 1971 classic LP ‘Hunky Dory’ – with the help of Iain at Longwell Records in Keynsham (about to move to Clifton Arcade in Bristol) I found a really good quality 1980 re-issue copy of the vinyl for us to listen to.

As usual this is a FREE event but we welcome donations to the work of the Hospice.