Is it unreasonable to play music in the garden?

[SenselessUbiquity]

My NDN hs the radio on in the garden ALL THE TIME the weather is good. Sometimes she is out there with it, sometimes she isn't - either way I am subjected to it in every corner of my own garden. I hate it.

My NDN on the other side doesn't, nor does my next door but one neighbour (radio woman's other NDN). I can't hear any others. In other words, in a space where nearly everyone is consistently demonstrating that they prefer just normal ambient noise - kids playing, birds singing, pools splashing etc - she is making everyone listen to constant shit music.

I think this is objectionable but I am pretty she, and a lot of people, would think I am being unreasonable and uptight. I'd like to ask her for a break from it - say a period of time in the afternoon when I know it will go off or something.

what do you think?

I was on a bike ride in the countryside once (on my granny bike with a basket not a lycra/racer type) when I heard music coming I couldn't understand where it was coming from it got louder and louder and louder..eventually it came right up behind me and it was a bloke with an 80s style beatbox strapped to the front of his bike! Blaring out radio 1!! He overtook me and I had to still hear it getting quieter and quieter...Who does that??!

I have mine on in the kitchen which I can hear if I'm sat near the window outside (the kitchen is outside wall one side living room the other so won't travel to neighbours house)

I wonder if she doesn't realise how far the sound travels.
I didn’t realise when I was muttering to myself in the garden about my next door but one neighbours and their incessant but ing of garden waste. Realised sharpish when he came round to have a chat about it!

I’d probably mutter something not too quietly and see if it does the trick. If not, pop your head over the fence and have a chat.

I don't mind hearing my neighbours' music. Quite often when I'm in my garden I can hear several different radios playing and I occasionally play mine through the Bluetooth speaker whilst I'm gardening or just chatting with dh and our dc. To me, hearing people enjoy their gardens, with all the sounds that includes such as kids playing, music, lawnmowers, strimmers and dogs barking, is what summer is about.

I hate it, sadly my next door neighbour does it. Even with me wearing noise cancelling headphones I can still slightly hear it, though it’s helped a lot. First time I’ve used them today and for the first time in 20 years I’ve been able to sit in my garden and read a book on a sunny day.

My only question is why don't most of these people being noisy in gardens have headphones?

How else would their neighbours know they just simply looooooove Phil Collins 😱

I think it is. I like listening to the birds in my garden! I think its like those weird people who bring music to the countryside. Wouldn't mind if it was a party every now and then but just thoughtlessly giving us a soundtrack we didnt ask for is really selfish.

@Devlesko

dingledongle

We play Jazz, two jazz musicians live here, dh and dd.
You'd love it they start at 9am and finish about 8pm.
Our neighbour is brilliant though and never complains.
He tells his gc if he knocks they'll play for them.
The bricks are thick though, so we don't hear him, we just see them arrive (not during lockdown), give them a while and then play

Oh dear God...

Music drifting over as someone said, is one thing. Music blaring out as it has been sent to a Bluetooth speaker from about 9am to 9pm is ridiculous but is what our neighbours have been doing. Can't talk to them as horrible and have had the police out before when they have physically gone for DH and cars kept getting mysteriously scratched.......but then last week a for sale sign went up and now it is sold so everything crossed for a nice sensible family to be moving in soon :)

Was this close to just shoving some cheap earphones through their letter box!

Totally inconsiderate. Though it’s better than screaming kids. Tell her to wear headphones. You can even get audio sunglasses these days - I have a pair and they are fantastic!

I’ve been surprised though at the building site on our street- the builders have been playing classical music. Not at all what I expected when they unloaded their enormous site radio.

It's selfish. Their music means you can't enjoy your own garden.

Today we've been subjected by the folks 2 doors down, to 8 hrs of Romanian rap music with an extremely heavy bass, so loud the house is vibrating with every beat. They've got about 30 people in the back garden who keep stopping the tracks so they can fill in the gap with their own shouting/singing. So much FUN,

Couldn't close the windows due to heat so have had to listen to it since 1pm, apologising on every work call for the noise.

Then to top it off the same family started a bonfire to get rid of garden crap about an hour ago so the whole street reeks and by extension the inside of the house.

I love listening to music while I'm in the garden so I have wireless earbuds that let me move about 15m away from my iPad so I can listen and garden without bothering anyone.

My neighbour kept playing a Michael Buble greatest hits cd over and over again and the worst part was it kept skipping
As soon as he would put it on I started immediately putting my own on really loud and he stopped within a week. Success!

I'd say between 9am and 9pm is ok.

It’s really selfish. Jazz and opera are the absolute worst. 😭😭😭

I like listening to music in my garden. I can't use headphones as I'm usually talking to my husband at the same time or listening out for the kids.

I don't mind it when the neighbours do it either. As long as it's not intrusive and only for short periods I don't see the issue.

It’s unreasonable.

@Judystilldreamsofhorses you might start understanding some of it and become fluent in Russian

@CorianderLord
Really....you would be happy with 12 solid hours of loud noise ......or the shouting, swearing amd insulting the very young kids they bring round to join in?? Like shouting that they arr f.....ing b...tards at 4 and 4 year old!? Oh and then encouraging said kids to throw stones over fence at our conservatory..... hope you don't move if you'd be happy with that :(

Although he's if it's all the time how annoying

Yes.

Yes it is unreasonable.

We have four houses close to us. The other weekend it was constant from around 11am through to midnight from different houses. We started with cheesy pop from House #1, mid-afternoon it was soft rock at #2, followed by loud dance music at #3 and Robbie Williams from #4.

I don't hate any of it but I'd just like to sit out in peace for a couple of hours without listening to other people's music.

The next sunny Sunday morning I shall be out there at 7am blasting out 5 hours of 'Hits from the Musicals'. Only a little bit joking.

I sympathise OP but are you sure you aren’t impacting on your NDN’s too? Perhaps you are annoying them somehow & that’s their response? I play music relatively quietly in my garden in an attempt to distract from the sound of the constantly screaming kids 3 doors away (not normal play noise; full on fighting & screeching) & the constant yapping of my immediate NDN dogs. The dogs in particular push me to the brink - even my own poor pup lays there with a WTAF expression on her face. We have tried talking to the NDN about the noise & for a long time they were insistent that there wasn’t a problem (because the little shits don’t bark when they’re home) & then they claim to be trying to sort it by finding a dog trainer...that was a year ago 🤦‍♀️ I WFH regardless of lockdown so listening to music is the only way I can cope & distract myself. I don’t want to use headphones because most of the time I am home alone & I want full awareness of noises around my house.

I have to listen to my neighbours screaming children. I'd much rather hear music.