Do you play music in public? WHY?

Oh my god yes! It's so annoying, it always seems to be shitty dnb as well. And why blast it so loudly? Can these people really not have a conversation or bare one moment of silence?
The worst is when they're on the beach smoking and playing it super loud, the entitlement is insane

To be fair we are a very socially aware group, if anyone else is about its switched off and tends to be later on. I'm completely aware of folks playing loud and hate it, and we are a very polite and respectful family. It's just another perspective

We aren't in the uk at the moment but we're is a restaurant in Spain and a mum and teenage daughter were watching TikTok videos top volume over dessert. This is clearly an extension of parents who let their little ones watch iPads and phones at mealtimes.

Your idea of nice music is another's person's idea of hell.

Playing 'softly' is just as annoying as you still have the irritating tinny buzz in the background that gets louder and quieter depending on the breeze. If you want to play music while drinking beers with friends, go inside!

It is on par with people watching things on public transport without earphones. Complete bellend behavior.

People who play music outdoors deserve to be tied to a nearby tree and covered in lactulose and sudocrem.

I found that so irritating...

I never understand why people think it is OK to force their music on others in public places.

We had hired a beach hut last year, during a seaside town holiday, and some 'beach wankers' as we called them set up right in front of us on the beach and played horrendously loud music for three days in a row. We couldn't move the beach hut obviously so I had to settle for glaring at them instead.

Some people are just selfish AND oblivious = beach wankers.

I think your poll is skewed, OP, it's not a natural 'YABU' given the unreasonableness of others...

I live right by a beach, l hate loud music on beach during the day, in the evening when I'm walking home from work by beach all the teenagers are hanging out playing music this for some reason doesn't bother me, l suppose the day is for families and adults to relax, the evening not so much.

I’d be seething if I was near you. Unless very very quiet.

on the beach yesterday, just a family and dogs beach in uK. Family setting up chairs etc at 11am with music load enough to hear a 100 yards away.

I agree with Hateam.

I was really looking forward to a Sunday afternoon in the garden yesterday. Neighbours decided to start playing dance music from 5pm - knobbers.

People now play music on their phone's speaker on hospital wards.
I think they should be beaten to death with a piece of heavy mining equipment.

Drives me insane! My husband always says he's going to blast out some death metal the next time someone puts so shitty music on when we go to a lake or beach. (He wouldn't dream of actually doing it!) so antisocial everyone has totally different music tastes so why must I listen to someone else's choice!

I think unless the person doing it, is doing it to make their life more manageable- ie I know someone who struggles with outside noise (sensory issue) so prefers to drown out with music through AirPods - I think it's a pain in the arse..

Love a good brass band though! That's very different

I can be really clumsy so may have stumbled against their speaker knocking it into the river.

I think it's just really tricky, unfortunately, to enforce that kind of law at a beauty spot or open countryside where there are no rangers/wardens/whatever.

I think quite a lot of municipal parks do have rules about music. But obviously it needs park wardens/rangers be present to enforce them though, and not many councils have the budget for staff to be present and patrolling at a park all the time.

I live opposite a colossal council-owned parkland area, and oddly I don't see many people playing music there at all, even though it's really popular in good weather for people picnicking and having get-togethers. Maybe that's because the kind of people who would typically play music in public tend to go to the areas of the park where there's stuff to do (one area has a boating lake with a cafe, pedalo boats, adventure playground, petting zoo for kids etc and there's also a showground section which often hosts a funfair) rather than going to the woods or rolling parkland areas to relax? I don't know. But luckily it's big enough that you can spend an afternoon in the parklands/woods/fields without even noticing the noisier, more activity-led areas are even there.

I don't think you'll get an accurate poll now sorry OP, people who voted in the first place might not be back to amend it

If I'm sat out by a lake with a bbq, some beers and some friends, someone often has a speaker but playing softly in the background and nice music, just as its going dark.. but I say yanbu because most people have no common sense and no social awareness.

YANBU. I Love music but also love peace and quiet. It's a selfish thing to do, play music in a public place on a tinny speaker and intrusive.

A public concert is different, or music coming from houses within reason as we don't live rurally and you hear a few people practicing with varying skill levels from home from my house/ garden. I like that because it gives the area life and don't begrudge a bit of overspill from garden BBQs or workmen's radios but in a shared area be that public transport or a beauty spot it adds nothing and shows a lack of respect for other people's wishes

I voted the way you wrote it in your original post! Lol.

Absolutely selfish and antisocial though. We were at a lovely strawberry farm in the country yesterday and the family next to us had given all 3 kids iPhones and they were blasting some motor racing out. Really spoilt our experience.
We were at Beamish museum a few weeks ago too and enjoying the open top bus when an absolute idiot mother gave both teenagers a phone to absolutely blast out loud angry rap music. Ruined literally everyone's experience. 😒

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I’m now not sure if I have voted correctly but just to clarify my thoughts on the matter:

people who play music in public (or even loudly in gardens unless for a one-off event) deserve a long, slow, painful death!

Your poll is not going to get accurate results - half will see your update and half won't.

YANBU people are inconsiderate. Nothing worse than trying to escape into the countryside and encountering loud music.