Bit of a bummer that No Music Day falls on a Saturday this year (see previous years 1, 2, 3) as Saturday is my favourite listening day. Also we've got four hours in the car travelling to and from a nephew's birthday party. Still, it'll perhaps force me to do what No Music Day is for, which is to reflect on what I want from music in my life. To be candid, after the day is over, I usually just get back in the saddle and pick up where I left off.
In the scheme of Bill Drummond, the originator of No Music Day, this is Year Five of the Five Year Plan. But he seems to be offering no sense of an ending; no sense of what has been achieved and what remains to be done. I listened to Drummond talk on the radio about No Music Day last week, but I might as well not have bothered, for he has nothing new to say.
I haven't yet decided for sure what happens here on 21st November next year; whether I continue the annual day off unilaterally. If I'm still here, I suspect I will.
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