If you’re playing music in your garden during lockdown that’s loud enough to be heard outside your garden, you’re an antisocial idiot.

[Destroyer]

I feel better for getting that off my chest.

We’re all stuck home together apart from our one exercise per day. People could at least show consideration - there’s nowhere to escape.

People with antisocial neighbours must really be suffering now.

@JudgeRindersMinder I feel your pain. I managed 3 hours yesterday morning after getting in at 7am. Then the football against the fence started. I did go a bit fishwife on them before oh popped round and asked them to give me a few more hours.

Too late though, couldn't get back to sleep and I'm still feeling wrung out today.

My MIL who works in the NHS works nights and has had a nightmare with this with her neighbours blaring music all day which has kept her up 😒 she has said something to them and they know what her job is but they keep doing it still, arseholes!

This is so subjective and situational that I think YABU. Unless people have huge gardens, if I can hear my own music, or children etc then probably my neighbours can too, despite my music not being loud at all and my children not shouting.
I don’t expect my neighbours to enjoy their gardens in silence either, it’s got to be give and take.
Of course very loud music, kids screaming and shouting is unreasonable but those people usually don’t care either way ..

YANBU, my neighbour is currently tidying up his front garden and has decided to blast music out of his car while he does so. So bloody annoying what is it about this weather that makes people so antisocial

I agree 100%

Took my dog out this morning and some twat was playing Karma Chameleon at full blast through their open windows. Wanker.

A bloke about 3 doors down from me has been building a new shed all week. This involves drilling and hammering and various loud noises. He then plays radio 2 while he's doing it, and because it's noisy he has to have the volume sky high. I don't mind radio 2, but Jeremy Vine bellowing across our gardens while I'm trying to work isn't fun.

I have another neighbour, 2 houses along, who likes to make phone calls in her garden. She is the loudest person I've ever heard. Last night about 11.30, I was in bed, in the front of my house, with an audio book on, and I could hear her yelling at her boyfriend about effing this and effing that from her back garden, through my closed windows.

I have neighbours on both sides playing competing loud music. Selfish arseholes.

Yep. Ours arrived home last night after ten days at their holiday home (!), so they’ve cranked up the tunes and I can hear Dad scrubbing down the BBQ. Knowing them I’d say it’s fairly likely they’ll have visitors later.

Playing loud music is anti-social at any time. Headphones are a wonderful invention.

One upside of this lockdown will be that our neighbours a few houses down who always feel the need to have really loud parties whenever it is nice weather to make sure everyone knows what a wonderful time they are all having, can't have those parties. Though I suppose they'll have them later in the year to make up for it :(

Meglet - your sanity doesn't trump others. Wear headphones

‘This is so subjective and situational that I think YABU.’

It really isn’t. You can’t compare music to children playing or people talking. It’s impossible to silence normal laughter and conversation, whereas it’s entirely possible to listen to the music of your choice without anyone else needing to hear it.

Of course, raucous laughter, screaming kids etc are anti social too. But to compare playing music outside with normal sounds of human interaction is daft

I would rather the music than the bonfires or barking dogs.

The loudly playing ABBA neighbours now have extended family round in the garden having a get together. Absolute fucking piss takers.

mac my headphones are broken. Anyway 30 mins of music is less than my neighbours summer Adele sessions.

There was a poster on a local Facebook group that decided what we all need is a garden disco so would deliberately play music loud enough so the whole street could join in. Could not understand that not everyone would appreciate it.

Have any of you asked your neighbours to turn the music down?

The most probable outcome is usually louder music.

Most of the neighbours are ok but immediate ndn thinks we all want to listen to bruno bloody mars or him having phone calls on loudspeaker constantly. Now i have put my washing out and a ghastly smell like a curried donkey is seeping out of his house. not envy.
Oh I miss my lovely quiet classroom and theatre

Why do people not use headphones? If you don't have headphones, bloody get some! Your music will sound much better too...

Some people will always find a reason why their wants trump everyone else’s.
‘My headphones are broken’ - well fucking order some more. It’s not like you haven’t got internet.
(awaiting the whining ‘but I can’t afford to buy any more’)

Ah , yes going on here (NDN music not me) ....................but at least it drowns out the noises of :

Annoying dog
Annoying football child
Annoying Dad playing (over playing) shouting Shoot Shoot to child .
Just fecking stand still long enough matey and let me get a good aim

Hosepipe the rude bastards.

I can often hear my neighbour's music in the early evenings. Doesn't bother me as generally while not exactly my taste, its pretty good music. They also have to tolerate my children all day. We are also 'link detached' and they use the garage like a workshop so I can often hear music in my garage. Doesn't bother me at all.

There's nothing worse than second hand music! Even if it's a song I like, hearing it blaring from someone else's car/garden/phone gives me the rage.

Have any of you asked your neighbours to turn the music down

Yes, repeatedly... Volume goes down for a little bit, then first back up again. They seem to forget they live in a semi-detached house and not everyone likes trance.

This is equally true outside of lockdown. No one else wants to hear your music in their gardens.