When Dan Blomfield was hospitalised with acute pancreatitis in his late thirties, doctors told him that if he carried on drinking to excess he was unlikely to make it to his 40th birthday. He passed that milestone in May, fit and sober – a fact he puts down entirely to his membership of the New Note Orchestra in Brighton.
“I heard about New Note Orchestra either through word of mouth or a flyer, I can’t remember which,” he says. “So I went along to the first rehearsal and I’ve never looked back.”
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