To think Creamfields organisers should have some consideration?

[whywonthedgehogssharethehedge]

All day today has been accompanied by an uber annoying thumping techno base. I can't open my windows as its so loud and this kind of music gives me headaches. I thought it was my neighbours teenager. On further investigation it appears to be Creamfields. We live 5.5 miles from the festival site. Friends as far away as 7-8 miles can also hear it.

Local fb pages are full of people complaining. Police have told us they can't do anything as Creamfields have "a license to play music until 4am" It went a touch quieter at 11 when the main stages shut off but I can still hear it. It fades every so often then thumps back just enough to disturb me.

AIBU in thinking that their license should not allow them to disrupt everyone within an 8 mile radius until 4am?

I'm also pretty sure they are pumping out a volume that way exceeds safe levels. Have complained to noise department but it doesn't look like they will do anything.

I have lived in my current house for 4 years. I've never had issues like this before. We have heard occasional bits but nothing like this. It's insanity.

[Pritchyx]

I was going to go to creamfields this year but coincided with an operation I had so couldn't go... Well disappointed!
It is one weekend a year, yes it's an inconvenience but it's an open air festival. Sound does travel..

I lived in Birmingham years ago about 6 miles from the Aston villa ground. I heard take that until midnight for 2 days in the middle of the week... Not my cup of tea. Was rather loud considering how built up the areas are surrounding the site.

Now I live in the countryside and the Ricoh arena is about 10 miles or so away, Rihanna was there not too long ago, once again open air stadium... She is horrific live.

I think it's to do with the way sound travels realistically! At least you wasn't practically on the site... Personally, I like the music played at creamfields so I'd of invited my mates over for a barbecue and listened to the music for free!

[Yambabe]

lol my DS (30) listens to drum 'n' bass. But not when I am in the house!

No need to apologise, DSS had already said he didn't understand why the leftover tents weren't collected "for the refugees or something" - he is not the brightest button in the box but I think his heart is in the right place!

I had no idea that there might be some sort of official recycling/disposal project going on, will see what we can find out.

To be honest I was also a bit that he just basically walked onto the site and helped himself to what was there too. I would have thought there would be some sort of security, even if only to ensure that the minimum wage site clearers got fist pick of the leftovers.......

[ladymariner]

Yambabe The collection and distribution of left behind tents is done through the organisers, but if I were to hazard a guess I'd suggest contacting the Red Cross? Apologies also, my post was snippy to you and there was no need for it.

The rubbish and general shite left behind winds me up too....no need for it. I asked ds why he didn't just bag his empties up ( your dss wouldn't have got much joy from ds' cans, they'd have been well emptied!) and he said they only had one carrier between them!!! Mental note.....shove a roll of dustbin bags in his hold all next year.....

Another ancient rocker and devotee of Monsters of Rock too.....can just about cope with ds enjoying the dance and trance stuff he insists in inflicting upon us these days ( I blame uni....bloody students!! ) but I did feel I had failed as a parent when, despite being raised on a diet of AC/DC, Scorpions, Dio etc etc he cheerfully informed us he had been to see a .....I can hardly bring myself to say it.....rapper!!!!!! Where did we go wrong????

[Yambabe]

Lady the leftover tents collected are not mine - do you know which charity or organisation collects them? As I will happily pass the info on to DSS who may choose to donate the ones he has.

I am old, I don't even know who Calvin Harris is or when he played but I'mplease your DS enjoyed him! Regardless, I can assure you that the music on Saturday night (whether it was him or not) was still hearable here (7 miles away) at 3.30am on Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I am all for people of all ages having a good time at festivals (my first was Monsters of Rock, pre-Download, in 1982 and I still do several a year now) and like I said Creamfields is one weekend a year so meh, I can cope with the noise. But the wastage and total disregard for the campsite area and the people who have to clean it up pisses me off.

[bumbleclat]

They will give you free tickets if you write to them, then you can sell them and go on holiday each time ;)

[ladymariner]

yambabe reusable tents left behind at Creamfields are collected up and sent to be used by charities eg homeless in Italy at the moment. Enjoy selling yours on eBay.......

Ds has just got back from Creamfields tonight, he had such a fantastic time. Calvin Harris was on from 9.30 till 11pm, not 4am. He can't wait to go again next year, loved every minute.

[Puzzledconfusedandbewildered]

yambabe that's pretty common for all festivals and many festival organisers let charities in to claim any salvageable tents first before the big clean up starts others recommend people donate their tents

[Yambabe]

in less than an hour ffs.

[ScouseAT]

The mess left is disgusting. After living near T in the Park for a few year was amazed at how big the clean up operation was. A total waste and totally minging.

[Yambabe]

You know what pisses me off more?

DSS has been over to the site for a nosey this evening. He has come back with the boot of his car full (and I mean FULL) of cans of booze, and he has several almost-new tents to put on ebay. He said the whole campsite area was just totally strewn with rubbish.

I really don't get this As I said earlier, DH and I do quite a few festivals ourselves in the summer and when we're camping we leave our pitch how we found it. All our stuff is packed up and taken home, all our rubbish is bagged and either binned or (depending on site preference) stacked neatly ready for a bin wagon to come and get it. Doesn't take long to do this.

Not sure if it's a generation thing (we are 50s now) or a culture thing (we do mostly rock, mixed or folk events rather than dance or pop) but it really winds me up!

[Woodburningstove]

I sympathise. We suffer with Boomtown. It annoys me that someone who wants to make massive amounts of money can just impose the noise on us for 4 nights. It goes on until early hours. The kids are crying with tiredness and I can do nothing to help them and it won't stop. Just a constant duff duff duff duff duff duff duff duff of the base that goes through my head.
I would love to go away for the weekend but I don't suppose the organisers are going to pay for us to do so. I have seen no benefit to my local community with money as a PP suggested. Just MASSIVE travel disruption.
It's also not just one weekend as a result of Boomtown the landowner has now started renting out to other events so we suffer for quite a lot of weekends now. There was nothing when we first moved here 12 years ago. It's not as simple as going away for the weekend or moving (stamp duty is very costly and I shouldn't be driven out of my own house because of this.
Why does anyone have the right to just inflict that noise nuisance on anyone. I really really wish the organisers could see my children crying and how it's impossible to stop them.

[Marylou2]

I could hear it from several miles away on Friday but not at all on Saturday. Must be the way the wind was blowing. Perhaps plan a lovely weekend away next year OP?

[lozster]

11 miles away and heard it one of the nights. We have Oulton park from the other direction. Depends on the wind. Yes the base in annoying. Thank goodness it is once a year but small potato compared to living in some other areas.

[Crikeyme]

We live two streets away from a Premier League football ground - I'll see your one noisy weekend a year, and raise you 8 months of home games where all vehicle access to our own street is closed twice a day on home match days, vomit and junk food all over the pavements, and several thousand people very audibly yelling 'The referee's a wanker!' while you try to have dinner with the kids in the back garden. Not to mention the midweek matches, with their perfect storm of floodlights into the bedroom, the same chanting and kick-off exactly at DD's bedtime.

[ScouseAT]

Apparently the stages were positioned differently this year. I live 3 miles away and I could hear it in the garden but inside with the windows shut it didn't disturb me or my children (2 & 4) this year or last. It's 1 weekend a year, it's good for an otherwise sluggish local economy, it gives local young people something to do/be part of/be proud of (something I didn't have growing up here 25years ago-apart from Stone Roses playing Spike Island and I was too young to go!!). YABU.

[BrianCoxReborn]

I'm nearish to the big roundabout. We're practically neighbours!

(Anybody planning on stalking me, PM me and I'll send you my address )

[Tapandgo]

Unless you seek out solitude you are likely to be disturbed by something or causing a disturbance to others. For some people it's the incessant noise of motorway traffic that bring food to the supermarkets overnight, fireworks at new year you celebrate, pubs emptying after hours that you drink at, the squeals from the playground your children attend, the bells of the church you pop in to, the tourists pilling round the lovely area you choose to live in, the planes that take you on your holidays, the wailing ambulances leaving the hospital that come to your aid..............count yourself fortunate you only get one nights disturbance. Plan around it.

[MoreCoffeeNow]

Make sure you get your objection in as soon as they apply for next year's licence, OP.

[Yambabe]

Agree that it seemed extra loud on Saturday night/Sunday morning this year (I am in Padgate, waves to the other Warringtonians!)

Didn't bother me particularly, I am with the "it's only one weekend a year" faction but I have lived here for 30 years and never heard it before.

Ironically I only noticed it because I was up particularly late myself (3.30am) anyway as I had driven back from a (much smaller) festival in Nottingham!

DH had a bit of a grump about it and shut the windows in a loud and sighing sort of way but he's a grumpy bugger anyway. I was just knackered from the driving and went straight to sleep........

[whywonthedgehogssharethehedge]

Was going to let this drop but I Want to mention that 70,500 of you may have had a great time but you were disturbing people as far away as 14 miles away. That's a LOT more people than the amount that were there.

Widnes and Runcorn alone have over 120,000 residents. It also reached St. Helens borough including Newton le willows (another 120,000) and that doesn't touch on all the people towards Warrington and Birchwood.

You likely disturbed up to 5 or even 6 times as many people as were there. Until 4 fucking am. Some won't be bothered but just in my group of friends there included:
People with misophonia
Children in pain recovering from operations struggling to sleep as it is
Elderly people
Shift workers
People who had to be up within 2 hours of the music stopping

I have no issue with music until 11 or even 12 and I know it's unfortunate that it carries but I really can't see why so many of us should be disturbed until 4am. I think it would be a good idea if ALL festivals had more sensible curfews to avoid all this.

[Shona52]

We went camping in the caravan a couple of weeks ago near stourport and there was a music festival on 3-4 miles away and we thought it was coming from another caravan onsite. It isn't fair to those around the festival but the councils only care about the money it brings into the area. Least it's not every week

[DecaffCoffeeAndRollupsPlease]

I've worked in a cafe at a fair few festivals and would be sent to the closest shop at least once a day for crew and cafe supplies, so there's a bit of money for the local economy. Also, every festival I've been to as a punter in the last few years I've gone offsite in the daytime to explore the local towns as I get bored of being at the festival itself. Again, money spent in local economy. Don't know how significant that is though.

Just another perspective.

[Advicepls7080]

It was disturbing people 14 miles away also so it obviously mustn't have been within regulations.

Didn't disturb me but I know people it did!

[ivykaty44]

I just don't get why due to 70000 people wanting music till 4am that residents have to suck it up and have a sleepless night.

Why can the music be so that at least people can sleep? What about people having to work? It's fine saying go away but there is a cost attached to go away.