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Music in neighbour's back garden

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Rainatnight · 05/06/2016 16:29

On this beautiful, hot and sunny day, the only thing that made me feel ok have having a pile of work to do was being able to do it in the garden.

Now neighbours have on turned on the radio in their garden, blaring music and I can't concentrate. (Small gardens, built up London terraced houses).

I completely know she's entitled to fun in her back garden on a beautiful day and I'm probably being unreasonable. But I'd like to know if you think IBU to be pissed off and WIBU to say something (polite).

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steppemum · 06/06/2016 08:56

YANBU
Yesterday the neighbours 2 doors down had music on.
Now we have generous sized gardens and we are all pretty noisy in various ways, so we are very live and let live (kids, dogs, lawnmowers, radios, music between us, we have it all)
But they were playing loud music with a loud thump thump thump thump bass, all afternoon.
I wouldn't mind some music really, but it was the volume and the thump thump that for me tipped it over into anti social. They are 2 doors down as well, so glad they aren't next door.

Actually, it got turned down later, and I think it was the teens who had it on loud, and parents who turned it down.

StopLookingAtMyAccount · 06/06/2016 09:01

I find loud music from othe people's gardens really irritating. I also find quiet music a bit irritating. I don't mind chatting and kids playing but not the music.

JoffreyBaratheon · 06/06/2016 09:09

Next door have two kids under 6, and a 100 foot long garden - we almost never hear them outside, or playing.

They don't play music, in the garden anyway - but they do have interminable BBQs in the summer (so many the first year they lived here, we suspected they couldn't afford an oven). Then, you don't hear the kids playing, either but you do hear the parents shrieking abuse at them, and both parents have voices like foghorns. They can't say a sentence without the f bomb liberally sprinkled. My favourite was the woman belting out of the house and yawpsing:
"The fucking garage just rang! The fucking (insert car part here)'s fucking gone."
All this with their then toddlers right there.

Sometimes they get drunk or drugged up, and stand there skriking about which of eachother's friends they'd like to fuck (again, with the kids present).

We also get to hear the man's racist, misogynist comments and basically we know his opinion on every issue as he sits in the garden and sets the world to rights at the top of his voice. He hates foreigners. He particularly hates 'the Poles'. They stole his job (he doesn't have one and I'd have loved a nice Polish family in his house, instead of him). He wants to know why you can no longer keep dogs outside in kennels. He wonders why the EU won't let him shoot house martins as they keep his daughter awake (the bastards, coming to this country, etc etc). And so on. He is about 50 and is full of old fart comments (shouted rants) about things not being what they used to be.

I'd kind of prefer music to the thoughts of one of life's losers, the lovely sounds of domestic violence and the daily calling their kids "cunt" and "little idiot"...

The only time they play music is when the woman is tasked to clean the car (which she can't drive so why she is made to keep it clean I dunno). Then she plays the car radio full blast - Taylor Swift etc. I always think "Why are you identifying with that? Jesus, your sad, squalid life couldn't be further away from that."

As an experiment I tried to hoover our car with some opera full blast (when my nice neighbours were out) and you literally can't hear the music over the hoover anyway - go figure.

PiranhaBrothers · 06/06/2016 16:09

Coldlightofday How embarrassing, I didn't realise anyone was watching!

Music in neighbour's back garden
IABVU · 06/06/2016 16:23

When you say loud, how loud?
Are you exaggerating?
Is it music that you don't like?
Would you mind if it was music you did like?
Is there lots of effing and jeffing in the lyrics?

Rainatnight · 07/06/2016 02:40

Not exaggerating, honest. As loud as...a very loud radio, next to our wall. Didn't like the music, yes, probably might have made a difference if I had.

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Stardust160 · 07/06/2016 02:48

I feel your pain unfortunately we live next to a teenager who blasts his music on a daily basis it's not even good music. I have to turn my tele up so I can hear it. It worse when I want to relax in the garden but can't. I've even complained because it was that loud it was unbearable didn't make a difference.

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