AIBU...Brass band playing outside church @ 6am this morning!! 😠

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AIBU to be severley pee'd off with the minister of the church and another 6 people playing brass instruments outside the church at 6am this morning!!
Myself and 2 Dc (7&10) stayed with my partner last night and the kids sleep in the room right next to the church car park. Me and my partner were woken with a bloody shock when this music started...it was so loud!! Youngest DC woke up with a fright crying so I went out and asked what they were doing (I thought law was 11pm-7am for noise etc...didnt think the church would be exempt!) and was told its easter sunday we will only be 15mins or so!!😠😠
I understand its easter sunday but come on...there still has to be some respect or pre warning that they were doing this. My kids have got a busy day with family and they are going to be tired and cranky, as none of us got anymore sleep, through no fault of there own.

Im so tempted to complain to the church!

.......and breath!! 😂

A daybreak service is one thing but disurbing your parishioners like this is something else!
We have one at my church but with one acoustic guitar at least 100 yards from any houses.

(However My kids have got a busy day with family and they are going to be tired and cranky, as none of us got anymore sleep, through no fault of there own is a bit over the top. Surely your DC are used to being awake at 7 ish, they lost an hour, they shouldn't be all that out of sorts.)

What sort of brass band was it?

Love the idea of happy brass band strutting down the street in the rising sun. Maybe less so if boring brass though.

We live near a pub that has recently come under new management. Last night they had a strangled cat act on. It disturbed me until late, but was a one off (I, and other neighbours will make sure of that). It would've been churlish to spoil their opening night, even though it went on long after I'd gone to bed.

Special exceptions for special occasions, OP? Live and let parp?

I'm with the OP - I'm a Christian although not really practising.

Easter is only once a year and there's nothing wrong with an early morning service. This does not mean being an inconsiderate neighbour though.

YABU. It's the announcement that Christ is risen. It's once a fecking year.

I attended a lovely and moving service of first light early this morning which started off quiet and reflective but involved some fantastic triumphal organ blasts as the day broke and the candles went round church. Both moods belong to Easter Sunday.

Rude. They could have given some warning.

As for those who are saying that it's a daybreak service - 6am is already well past daybreak at this time of year, so why couldn't they wait at least a couple more hours?

Imagine the fuss if a mosque did a call to prayer at 6am.

And why outside the church? They could at least have kept it inside.

They could have given some warning

Yeah a church service on Easter Sunday - who'd of thought!

complain.

quote: Proverbs 27 v14:If anyone loudly blesses their neighbour early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse.

yes easter is joyous, but ffs, there is no need to piss off all the neighbours. not helping their cause either... preaching good news to neighbours is now going to fall on deafened ears. deafened by their brass band.

Donkey Oatey got there before me. Six people is not a band it's an ensemble.

Have to say I would love this and would be encouraging the kids to put their coats on over their PJs to go out and listen. Let's face it this is probably the most interesting thing that will happen all day.

Since when was a brass band a vital, normal or even reasonable part of a 6am service?? Bloody selfish of them to not go to the small effort of letting locals have a bit of warning. My husband's father was a vicar and Dean, he never did such loud services at unsocial hours.

I adore brass bands, I help organise the Whit Friday Brass Band contests, but it's certainly not "just a bit of music"! I've seen Police horses accompanying the bands spook and run off when a brass band starts up on many occasion. It's bloody loud! If you were in bed and not expecting it I can see it would scare you to death!

Personally I would write to complain to the church and even perhaps mention it to the local council explaining that residents need a bit of warning. Our Whit Friday religious marches set off with brass bands at 9am every year, but it's well publicised and a normal working day for most people, so they're up anyway. There's nothing wrong with having a dawn service, but it should be respectful to locals. As I said, a brass band was not a necessary requirement.

To the smug people replying that Easter itself is enough of a warning, the band is not part of a normal Easter service and that's the point, as well you probably know!!

And comparing a flight path is not the same, it's expected when you live there. The whole point of this thread was that the music was a shock and a polite congregation ought to have warned locals, not that they want Easter banned.

And a six piece brass band is still noisy! Brass instruments have built in amplifiers in the bell ends.

YANBU I wouldve called the police, church or no church

Ah come on people, it's a bit unexpected but why not make a positive of it? Golly look! What a nice surprise!

In our early married days we lived in a little terrace almost over the road from a scout hut. Two or three times a year there would be a parade early on a Sunday morning that involved marching bands with bugles and drums. OK it wasn't at 6am but it was early enough that, in our young pre-parent days, we were sometimes using our Sunday lie in for, err, other activities. Yes we have been coitus interrupted as it were by a band paying practically under the bedroom window. I can honestly say we found it more funny than anything else.

What if I decided it was my religion to play loud music at 6am every Sunday? Would that be ok? No.

Don't involve your local paper. Really don't send them a picture of a tired child.
Your children would never live it down.

I wouldn't be amused and I am a church attendee.

I'd complain to the local diocese

I thought law was 11pm-7am for noise etc...didnt think the church would be exempt!

There is no such law.

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Golly look! What a nice surprise!

I can assure you that that would NOT be my first response to being woken at 6am on a sunday by a bunch of idiots playing brass instruments!

Its inconsiderate and taking the p. There is no need. I have never heard our local church making a cacophany outside at 6am. They should have the same consideration for their neighbours as the rest of us have.

YANBU, OP. People seem to think they can get away with anything in the name of religion.

Switch the church brass band for a dappy neighbour holding trumpet lessons in his garden at 6am and everyone on this thread would be in agreement with you about how inconsiderate this was first thing on a Sunday morning. Talk about double standards!

So basically.............a big fuck you to any night workers that happen to live in the vicinity then.

If some of you got sick and then got treated by a nurse or doctor in a hospital who was tired due to being woken up by a brass band racket with no warning and she/he made a mistake you would be speed dialling your lawyers faster than you can say Florence Nightingale.