Longplayer: a piece of music that lasts for 1,000 years without repetition

For most composers, the accusation that their musical creation seems interminable would be seen as an insult.

But for Jem Finer, once the banjo player in The Pogues and co-writer of ‘Fairytale of New York’, that was very much the plan when he came up with ‘Longplayer’.

It is a piece of music that began playing 25 years ago on Tibetan singing bowls, and it is designed to ring out in total for 1,000 years without repetition.