November 21st is No Music Day

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On No Music Day:

No hymns will be sung.
No records will be played.
iPods will be left at home.
Rock bands will not rock.
Conductors will not take the podium.
Decks will not spin.
The needle will not drop.
The piano lid will not be lifted.
Films will have no soundtrack.
Jingles will not jangle.
Milkmen will not whistle.
Choirboys will shut their mouths.
Recording studios will not roll.
MCs will not pass the mic.
Brass band practice will be postponed.
The strings will not serenade.
Plectrums will not pluck.
Record shops will be closed all day.

And you will not take part in any sort of music whatsoever.

Then you will decide what you want from music.

On November 21st, Bill Drummond will observe No Music Day, an event to celebrate the absence of music for 24 hours.

"What I decided I needed was a day I could set aside to do nothing but think what it was I wanted from music. And develop ideas of how that could be achieved. This day I would call No Music Day. I will be observing No Music Day by spending the day trying to imagine what a music that I had never heard before would sound like. I am observing No Music Day because all music I hear sounds like something that I have heard before. I want to hear something fresh and different that makes me feel emotions that I didn't know I had instead of the emotions that I have felt a thousand times before."

More here.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Kind of like practising for old age, isn't it? Maybe Bill Drummond is getting to that age now...

Still, nice idea. Might try it out. We're all going to get old one day - hopefully.

― [euchrid] (euchrid), Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Too bad for him, I'm seeing Depeche that night.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 November 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

It's the kind of thing I'd like to do - like 'buy nothing day' - it's good to have a break from stuff once in awhile, but I just know I'll forget. I can't think of a day when I haven't had music in my life. It would be weird, but not necessarily bad.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Saturday, 19 November 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Too bad for him, I'm seeing Depeche that night.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), November 19th, 2005.

Perhaps they can be convinced to participate.

― Edward III (edward iii), Saturday, 19 November 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

That would be wrong.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I want to waste a day of my life without music.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Alright then, Depeche Mode can perform one song. A cover of 4'33".

― Edward III (edward iii), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

(OK, I'm being a little mean)

― Edward III (edward iii), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

I love Bill Drummond. I love that he's nuts. But he needs to shut up sometimes.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

it's my birthday that day and there will be music!

― sonore (sonore), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

I am observing No Music Day because all music I hear sounds like something that I have heard before. I want to hear something fresh and different that makes me feel emotions that I didn't know I had instead of the emotions that I have felt a thousand times before.

Someone needs him some Zoloft.

― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

I like-a da Bill Drummond. Has he been hanging with the Culture-Jammers? One has to walk a tiptoe line tween anarchy and snobbery.

― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

yeh, i'm a big fan, but this sounds a bit wack, i'm sorry.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

Let the guy not hear music then.

I don't think he's forcing anybody else to observe it, nor is he implying he's better than anyone else by doing it. He's just doing it, and inviting anyone else to take part in it, that's all.

― do knut (donut), Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

i am totally going to listen to THE K-ELL-EFF on MY IPOD on november 21 so i can counter-counter-culture bill drummond in da face

also: THE MANUAL does not work. trust me i tried it. SO FUCK OFF BILL!!!

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Sunday, 20 November 2005 07:59 (twenty years ago)

oh my god that was you?!?

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Sunday, 20 November 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

two mondays ago was husbands make your wives dinner night.

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 20 November 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Fuck all this; I'm just waiting for Talk Like A Pirate Day to come around again (September 19).

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 20 November 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Good interview in the Independent this morning: http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article328380.ece

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 21 November 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

Whoops...

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

But in the broad sense, art is what's left behind, whether it's Shakespeare, Rembrandt or Goldie Looking Chain."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Bill Drummond declares November 22nd No Words Day, explaining "There just aren't words for the songs of the people who really feel."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

it's great to take a day for reflection, but why does everyone have to do it on the same day? And why does it need to be an event? I'd like to remind everyone that 2006 is the year without holidays, by the way.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Plagiarism! Idea stolen from Luke Haines's "Pop Strike" a few years back (LH even got to write a Guardian editorial proclaiming it).

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

On a related note, this Friday is "Sinkie Day".
Yes.
Finally the hard working people who eat over the kitchen sink to spare themselves from doing the dishes or wiping up the table have a day to call their own!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

When's "No viral abstinence memes today, please" Day?

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

haha

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

And right in the middle of NaSoAlMo too...

― acb (acb), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm doing this. Need to detox. Good idea Bill.

― Lukas (lukas), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

So, that was yesterday - how did it go?

Rolling Stone felt the need to call Bill Drummond a douchebag because of this: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2006/11/21/former-klf-frontman-orders-day-long-moment-of-silence-is-douchebag/

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

an excellent reissue of a lost delia derbyshire LP broke the silence.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

go fuck yourselves

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

way ahead of you.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot.

Oh well, perhaps next year.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

what a shit idea.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

two years in, and NOBODY IS GIVING A FUCK. it might as well be no-bill-drummond day.

steve lamacq is playing "justified and ancient" on radio 6 right now :)

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

didn't realise resonance had "observed" this last year. a colleague is doing something with <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7104144.stm";>radio scotland</a> today, too; not sure if drummond is going to be there or not. i'm on a week off, so i dunno or particularly care :)

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

MOTHER FUCK BBCODE WHEN WILL I LEARN?

linky clicky etc

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

heheheheh, okay, this year too!

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

i fucking loathe BBCode and everything about it.

jesus wept

― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

every day is no-bill-drummond-day

― rockapads, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

whatever miniscule chance I had of participating in this stupid day was killed by it being the day before Thanksgiving, when I'll be driving 3-4 hours to see family. shit, I bought 6 CD's yesterday just to make the drive less boring.

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, but tomorrow...!

22 November 2007 Masterclass Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow
An introduction to the ideas surrounding The17 with students studying composition at the Royal Scottish Academy.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

November 21st is No Music Day

like hell it is

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, um, fuck that.

― tricky, Wednesday, 21 November 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7103735.stm

So, he seems to have some success with this, this year?

― Mark G, Thursday, 22 November 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Gay LF, morelike

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 22 November 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

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