And so our annual day of rest on Music Arcades, No Music Day — see 2006, 2007. To be honest, there are days when I feel I could do with more than just one day a year; but then there are days like Tuesday when it all seems worth it again.
This year, Bill Drummond, No Music Day's originator and campaigner-in-chief seems to have talked the Brazilian authorities (which authorities exactly, I wonder?) into 'attempting' 24 hours without music [link bound to rot quite soon, as all my others to Drummonds' sites have].
I read Drummond's 17 over the summer, and it gives more background to the sense of frustration with recorded music that he felt, and which spawned No Music Day, as well as his performances and "this tape will self-destruct in five seconds" recordings by The 17. It made me wonder whether the first No Music Day had been one of the inspirations behind Music Arcades. We did, after all, begin exactly one month after No Music Day 2005. I genuinely can't remember, but it seems like it could be more than coincidence.
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