Against The Grain: Collective listening events

Collective listening events respond to a cultural need, but are at risk of co-option by wellness and lifestyle marketeers, argues Derek Walmsley in The Wire 511 "You're in the right place!" smiles the man in the smart shirt and trousers at the velvet rope line. Inside a modest door on a touristy street in London's Soho is a cocktail bar, work space, podcast studio, plus a private cinema which…