to play my music in my back garden?

[HighwayDragon]

It's warm here, I'm sat outside basking in the sun, listening to 90s classics. I've just heard my neighbour complain loudly about the "bloody noise" to her dh. It's not loud at all. So aibu to ignore them and carry on listening to Shania twain, backstreet boys, bwitched etcetc?

No, I'm in a country where everyone is up and out and doing by 6 am. Am frequently to be seen raising a wry eyebrow on MN threads when people whinge that someone woke them at 930 on a Sunday. Here, that's virtually lunchtime....

And I'm not a killjoy at all. I listen to my own music at absolute full volume, in a flat. So I do it with headphones.

If someones music left on 5 disturbs anyone in the house who is sleeping or studying then there's a serious issue with the structure of the house.

My neighbours often have music on, can't here a thing unless I go out.

It's a tablet not a brass band.

Ball off trying to accuse others of being impolite for daring to enjoy something in their own garden, I find intolerance MUCH less polite.

(that was too sandiego)

If I was in my garden and I could hear music from my neighbour's garden I would feel annoyed. For me time spent in my garden is for pottering quietly round the plants or sitting, reading and relaxing. I want to hear the birds sing and the breeze in the trees. Not Shania Twain, I can not stand her music. If I was forced to listen to it I'd probably have to go back indoors and that doesn't seem fair. If you listen to your music through headphones surely everyone is a winner?

op BUY SOME HEADPHONES

I use headphones because I know my music taste probably isn't everyones cup of tea. If your music was playing next door I'd bop along because I love chesy pop music but DH and Dsis would call it 'fucking crap noise' as well, the mere presence of it makes them twitchy so perhaps it's not the volume but the songs themselves.

The one thing you are unreasonable for is not enjoying a glass of wine in the sunshine.

I live in a flat greys. The people upstairs play loud music which literally makes my ceiling shake.
Your kind of people, clearly.

I find it really intrusive when I'm trying to relax in my garden and some musical crap ruins the peace.

Intrusive and rude.

It's even worse if it is tinny crap from a tablet or phone.

Why assume anyone else wants to hear your music? Just have a little consideration and put on your headphones.

Children playing - totally normal.
People chatting, cutting grass etc, again normal.
But putting on your music and expecting everyone else to share your taste is just plain annoying and bloody inconsiderate.

(Too many years being subjected to former neighbours bringing their bloody stereo out and inflicting fucking Status Quo on the neighbourhood to be rational about this)

Kids playing out are fine, BBQs are fine, mowing the lawn is fine. Music noise is not fine, you can put earphones in.

Oh no maliaki because the smell from the wine might waft into someone's garden and make them feel sick

I need a list of what I can do in my garden, no BBQ's, no smoking, no music, no hanging out bra's and knickers...

I would hazard a guess that volume 5 from a tablet wouldn't get the noise pollution team in a tizz.

Of course blaring out Metallica outside at 10 on a stereo system would be unreasonable,OP isn't doing this.

I like to listen to music in the garden when the sun's out. I am also partial to 90's classics.

For those suggesting earphones, what about if there's more than one of you? There's four of us....do we all have sit very close to each other tethered to some multi-earphone contraption?

Seems a bit complicated. Maybe I'll take a PP's suggestion and buy a nice big detached house as they're the only ones allowed to play music outside...

OP Yanbu...I wish you were my neighbour

I love 90's music

drink
Oh my kind of people is it?

Funny that considering I don't play music in the house, don't have a dog that barks, baby never screams, never do building work... the only noise that comes from me is when it's sunny and I dare to sit in my garden with the radio on. God what a terrible neighbour I am.

mutt presumably people don't do this 24/7 every day of the year. Give them a break.

It is impolite when your insistence on listening to your music outside and without headphones impinges negatively on someone else. You are ineffect dictating to the neighbiurhood and at least 50% will either be hacked off or think you have shite taste in music.

Why would you be so rude as to play music outside when you know it is going to disturb others? And tinny music form a half volume tablet is just as bad because it is annoyingly there in the background, but with crap reproduction. It's like those prats with crap headphones on the bus, with the beat of their music seeping out - intensely annoying.

OP if you were my neighbour I'd be demanding you turned it up and joining you in a backstreet boys celebratory dance.

There's a difference between enjoying some music and loud music, people do get their knickers in a twist. Soon the weather will be shite again and you'll be confined to the house. Make hay whilst the sun shines!

Frankly I'm much more disturbed by our neighbours dog which they leave whilst they travel..it barks and HOWLS for hours at a time.

I am okay with my neighbour's music as long as it's not too late or loud. What I have a problem with is when he sits in his garden singing and playing his guitar very loudly. He really can't sing. Or play the guitar. At all!

Occasional BBQs are fine, very quiet music is fine (providing the neighbours can't hear it, if they can, invest in the not that old technology known as headphones), smoking is fine as long as you do it well away from other people (who wants to have to smell that wafting over into their garden).

What's with all the histrionics about not being able to ever listen to music ever? Reminds me of my teenagers having a strop "so you're saying I can't ever watch TV/go to my friends/eat chips ever again??"