Spiritland offers "unique new music space" at London's Merchants Tavern

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A new hospitality concept bringing together food, drink and "world-class hi-fi" is making its debut at London's Merchants Tavern bar and restaurant with the opening of Spiritland – a "unique new music space".

Spiritland is described as a place "for appreciating music in a leisurely and luxurious style" - with a collection of vinyl spanning the last five decades, in genres ranging from rock 'n' roll to country.

It is taking up residence at Merchants Tavern for a three-month period, before opening as a new, permanent restaurant, bar and members' club next year, at a London location yet to be confirmed by Spiritland.

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A number of guest programmers have been recruited to select each night's music, with the tracks being played on a two-channel system. In addition to vinyl, Spiritland also uses CDs and 0.25in tapes.

The system includes Tannoy Westminster GR horn loudspeakers; Canary M500 monoblocs with 300B triode tubes; and modified Technics 1210 turntables with Isonoe arms, suspension feet and power unit.

A Bozak CMA-10-2DL mixer is also used at Spiritland, together with a Studer B67 stereo cassette machine and a Sony CDP-D12 CD player. The three-month residency at Merchants Tavern runs until 1st January.

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[Photos: Rik Moran]

Pete Hayman

Pete was content editor on What Hi-Fi?, overseeing production and publication of digital content. In creating and curating feature articles for web and print consumption, he provided digital and editorial expertise and support to help reposition What Hi-Fi? as a ‘digital-first’ title; reflecting the contemporary media trends. He is now a senior content strategist.