Neighbours having their own Glasto this evening

[Otins]

About 4 houses along on the adjoining road (our back gardens join on to each other) are having their own version of Glastonbury this evening. They have a music system set up and a DJ. Bizarrely, I can’t hear the sounds of partying / people as such.

it is ridiculously loud and I can’t even have a conversation in my back garden without shouting.The gardens are tiny, only about 10m x 20m so it is less than 50m away.

I have all my windows shut and can still hear it perfectly in every room.

my only hope is that they started at 6.30pm so maybe it’ll finish early. [clutches at straws]

I accept it is a 1 off, and don’t mind the occasional party, but the noise levels are totally inappropriate for the middle of a residential area whatever time of day it is. There are kids around trying to get to sleep now, and they’ll have no chance. .

I can’t even give up and dance to it, as it is shit european folky stuff. Lots of wailing and accordions and the like.

I rang 101 for advice, and they gave me the local out of hours number for the council, but the answerphone message said they were closed when I called them.

aibu for being really pissed off - not at the party as such - just the ridiculously loud music?

Can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em? Have your own next year.

"You don't need to worry about other people's kids"
And there it is, the authentic voice of a self-centred society...

YANBU OP - an ccasional party is fine; rock concert level noise in small gardens is just antisocial.

I have this most days and evenings with my neighbour. Going on 16 months.

It's hell and I despise the little prick so much. I'm in Aus and our local council have been useless.

We've only been here not quite 2 years and can't sell it just yet.

Every day I wish we'd never bought this house.

Noise pollution causes more upset than anything else in our village , fireworks , back firing cars , speeding bikes , loud music . Two things amaze me , firstly whose godawful idea was it thinking humans should live on top of each other and expect social harmony . Secondly how selfish you must be to not give a 4x about your neighbours.

" European folky music ".

I see.

It's them forriners again isn't it? . They should be playing Vera Lynne and Cliff Richard.

Professional DJ's outdoors in residential areas should not be allowed. Our neighbours did it a few years ago - so loud the Amazon delivery guy was tearing his hair out as he was knocking up & down the street and no one could hear him. I still hate those neighbours, rude, selfish, entitled....

Ringing 101 for a party at 8pm om a Sunmer Saturday is peak mumsnet

I agree. Absolutely selfish attitude.

I’d rather hear that than screaming kids all day in the summer. I’m dreading the holidays

Holidays have already arrived for some of us.

I mean the op doesn’t need to get stressed about other peoples kids (that might not even exist). Let their parents do that.

My neighbours did the same. Their garden joins mine. It started about 8:30pm and I finally stopped being aware of it at some point after 2am. It wasn't the music so much, but the loud shouty voices.
They do it about every 6 weeks, all year round. It's VERY annoying.

Being able to hear someone else’s music inside your house with the windows shut is unreasonable regardless of the time of day. HTH.

This is precisely why those who love playing amplified music in their gardens should be housed together in the same area with others who do too. Those who want peace and nature sounds (I wonder how disturbing wildlife find loud music?) can be housed in a different area.

Everyone would be happy

I agree. It’d never happen and would be impossible to police (what’s ’too loud’ in either area), plus imagine the rage if as a peace loving person your area was suddenly zoned ‘noisy’ or vice versa.

However it does sort of exist already socioecononically. Or at least it seems like it in my experience

Youvdont live behind me do you? Waterloo?

That was Simon and his annual family birthday do. 4pm til about 9.30 every year

We just simg along now 😃

Normal noise is one thing, but noise like that is bloody selfish.

Just like there shouldn’t be a quiet carriage on the train but a couple of noisy ones. Everyone who wants to watch videos and make calls at full volume can piss off there leaving the rest of us in peace.

Good

All the posts responding, it’s a one off, it’s summer, etc, make me
very happy to live somewhere very upright where amplified sound that crosses the border of your property in a residential neighborhood is illegal. Cultural differences and all, but that would drive me crazy.

That would drive me wild.

Yeah, I don’t think people who do this care about their neighbours liking them.

It used to be a thing that if you were going to have a loud party you’d invite your neighbours. Then they could either join in or at least be warned and go elsewhere till it was over. Guess people don’t do that anymore.

No. If you want a loud rock band you hire a village hall or other venue. You don’t have it in a tiny garden in a row of other houses.

I would bloody hate this but also think as it’s a one off and summer etc, I’d go on booking.com and get a cheap room for the night.

If it’s a one off then surely you can let it go and just let them have their party.

Every night then that’s a different issue but come on, it’s one night.