Playing the guitar and singing in the garden

[DorothyL]

An acceptable thing to do or something to spare the neighbours?

Our neighbours do this, but they're bloody good to be fair. The Dad and one of the sons play in a band and it's a bit of a treat when they get going.

Queen have you all just escaped Nazi Austria?!

Oh, it's like being at a party when someone announces they've brought their guitar but you can't escape off home.

Did you catch sight of the kids' matching curtain frocks MadMags?

Our neighbour treated herself to a karaoke machine a few summers ago and - no lie - spent every weekend for about 12 weeks outside singing Coldplay songs over and over and over. She ended up with one of those noise abatement things because the neighbours (other side) complained and recorded her so many times. I once put the DCs to bed at about 9pm and heard her, they got up at 6am and she was still going. (Obviously there was drink taken, nobody can sing Coldplay sober for that many hours without dying). She's been quiet for a long time since, but last summer treated us to a non-stop weekend of Fields of Athenry and songs about the Glasgow Celtic (she's from Sussex and has no Irish/Scottish ancestry, so it's a great choice).

She's a special sort of neighbour. But no, I don't mind a sing song. Compared to our lunatic I'd happily live next door to Guns n Roses or Kiss.

Playing the guitar and singing? In the garden?
That comes perilously close to people enjoying life, so we stamp that sort of thing out quite firmly round here.
Almost as bad as having to hear children having fun.

And obviously we all need to take the piss out of Queen ; there's a danger her DC may grow up interacting as a family, which will obviously be to the detriment of the screen skills they acquire while young. How irresponsible.

Just be thankful their not a drummer
Picked my brother up from band practise one night. Defiantly didn't need help finding that house!

Years ago my neighbours teen son and friends set up in the garden with amps,electric guitars and drum kit. You literally couldn't hear each other talking in your house and I was expecting guests for dinner.

I shrieked for several minutes out the bedroom window before he heard me and asked him nicely to turn it down. They all packed up and left which I was glad about but also felt bad about.

A bit of acoustic every now and then I would cope with.

Teen lad on the other side has parties until 5am quite frequently with 20-30 drunken teens and a stereo blaring. Thankfully their house is up for sale!

My neighbour started doing shit like that to annoy me, it started after he asked me to to keep the kids out of the garden before 9am after I said no he started to play guitar outside till 11pm most nights keeping my kids awake. When I told him my kids where trying to sleep he said he could play to 11pm and to piss off.

My neighbours do this, I love it.
They have a family band, play at weddings and tour the country doing small little gigs.
Listening to them in the garden is absolutely brilliant!
But they are really good, not really my style of music but still nice to listen to.
They're out there at the moment, it's not really loud though, and they aren't raucous.
Wouldn't particularly enjoy heavy metal or country and western sort of music! And definitely not as a really loud level.

To be fair femmum your neighbour has a point. Why are your kids sleeping habits more important than his?

Op DS1 is a learning guitar player. I'm quite strict about timings with the amp and electric but the acoustic I'm more relaxed about. A neighbour in the garden at 9pm playing I wouldn't mind. When we were on holiday there was a lad sitting in his camper van playing his saxophone of an evening, and I loved it. Beautiful when they can play. not like DS which is why hes srill limited on play time

Three different houses I've had bagpipes players for neighbours. All have liked to practice in their garden.

Just as well I quite like bagpipes if they're played well.

I would find it very annoying, even if they were talented or had a no.1 hit in the charts. That's what "indoors" is for!

Queen I was actually a huge fan of those outfits when I was younger!

I was desperate for Liesl's dress.

It's got to be better than hearing my 6yo singing and playing air guitar whilst trempolining. We have new neighbours too, who only moved in while we were on holiday (got back yesterday). We've spent the past 24 hours repeatedly telling ds to quieten down and think of the neighbours...

Because you miss the point bubble. Kids doing anything is perfectly fine because kids are kids, unless of course you are socially superior to the people you're complaining about in which case the noise is a sign thay they are anti-social dickheads and you should call 101 and log it, and keep a diary, and record any noise not to your liking because everyone is entitled to live near other people but have peace and quiet whenever they want it.

femmom Your neighbour has a point. Personally I think having your kids out making noise before 9am is rude, just like making noise at 11pm is, but if you're fine with one then you have to be fine with the latter. The world doesn't revolve around your children's waking/sleeping patterns.