Lovely day, neighbours playing music in garden

I live in a tiny village and have fields on 2 sides of my back garden. Neighbours on the attached side are lovely, but with 2 screeching kids who run up and down the garden screaming like that bloody haribou advert! As kids do.
If I sit in my garden with music, I always use headphones, because I like it loud. Why would I inflict my music on anyone?

Yeah, that’s two fingered response I knew you’d have vodka

My neighbours bring their TV outside, they have attached it to the outside wall and watch football/sport. You can hear it from the front of the house. Drives me crazy as I hate sport! I’d rather hear music any day!

Once in a blue moon might be fine but regularly is just rude.

Music can be quite nice when it's for just a bit, not all the time. And when everyone coordinates, not making se ridiculous mash ups here with different neighbours 😂

I'd probably play some music of my own as a mild hint that if they can hear you, you can hear them. No need to blast them with high volume, though.

Last year we had the horror of the self-appointed DJs putting on "lockdown discos" blasting music for the benefit of the entire street. If you criticised it you would think you'd personally shat on the NHS.

@MaMelon Because I don't want to use headphones and as I previously stated my neighbours and I are perfectly normal people who are not constantly irritated by petty crap like folks using their gardens.

Our 70s and 80s music is currently competing with next door's Alexa playing music post-2000 (bits of which I do recognise but most of it is crap). I would feel for the neighbour the other side but for the fact that her son's friends rev their cars and bikes under our window at 2am, and she has a voice like a foghorn...

Some of the parent /child arguments can be entertaining....

My neighbour was sat blasting trance shit out the other night sat in his van outside his house. I tell you this I completely get it as I was sat raging at him, put some music on and do the same back until it sinks in with them

In our crowded London terrace row we have noisy family get togethers, the old couple who smoke weed, the squabbling kids, the yappy dog and the cats that crap in my vegetable patch. All normal city living stuff. Yet the only thing that really annoys me is the normally nice family a few doors down who spend every sunny weekend chilling to the best of the 90s.

Music for relaxing is so personal, and enforcing it on others is so rude - in some ways more because unlike a party or some building, it is likely to go on as long as your neighbours are there, and is low level enough that you usually don't want to make a fuss.

Our neighbours are doing the same but at least we had a note to tell us this time. Can't complain really.

What I don't understand is having the music so loud that you have to shout over it. Why have it that loud - surely it's background music not a night club scenario .....

Feel for you - there's always one selfish ignorant twat.

Also have you actually asked whether they are understanding of your garden noise? They might very well hate it!

I live in quite a young area, people like to socialise and we’re all quite understanding of each other’s garden noise. I’ve never known anyone in rl care about a bit of music like they do on mn.

I don't mind the odd party. It's the constant loud music day in, day out that is annoying. My old neighbour used to have such loud music that I couldn't hear my radio on inside my house.

those damn birds - no consideration -they start at 4 in the morning singing their heads off having a competition with the next door nest
& don't get me started on those pigeons - why do they have hoot down the chimney? & than all through the day non stop until the sun sets - & beyond

Screeching brats, barking dogs, loud music. All dreadful.

We’re very glad you don’t live in Britain anymore too Jemima - one less inconsiderate person inflicting their noise on everyone else. Win/win

I am glad I no longer live in Britain. People are very grumpy. I didnt realise until I moved abroad how unnatural and bitter it is to be so thoroughly infuriated by the sound of our fellow humans simply enjoying their lives. Bit of music in the garden on a sunny day? HOW COULD THEY

[quote StarCourt]@Mamanyt the trouble with that is generally they're drinking too. You can't reason with people who are drunk [/quote]
This is very true. However, it is always wise to START trying to kill the fly with a fly-flap, then move on to the bazooka.

And now playing 'nowhere to run, nowhere to hide'.. ..oh the irony.

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God I hope none of the music hating folks on this thread are my neighbours! Dd1 is currently having a leavers party in the garden and it’s quite loud. Not an every day occurrence!

I live in quite a young area, people like to socialise and we’re all quite understanding of each other’s garden noise. I’ve never known anyone in rl care about a bit of music like they do on mn.

It’s SO inconsiderate. I don’t mind ambient noise of people just doing their thing, but music is such an imposition. I’d have to go round and tell them.