AIBU to dislike hearing neighbours' music in my garden?

[JellySky]

Sitting in my garden and you can guarantee someone will start playing music, we surround a school field so its a lot of back gardens concentrated in one place. I can't complain that it's rave or too loud, its eclectic and not full blast but it disturbs the peace, I can hear the exact song and it reaches me at the volume I would have in my own garden as background noise.

I am not a big music lover, find it over stimulating maybe and jarring when the music doesnt match my mood.

I understand people want to enjoy their gardens on a nice day but if you want music that badly, wear earphones. I want to hear the outside - trees blowing, regular daytime noise and birds, not your music!

In the UK, you do not have an automatic or absolute legal right to play music in your garden if it negatively impacts others. While property owners have a general right to enjoy their land, UK law limits this right to protect neighbours from unreasonable disturbance. Apparently.

That’s clear, since most people do not play loud music in their garden.

I remember having neighbours who constantly put music on in the house then flung the doors open so that they could hear it outside. So loud. Another time they brought speakers outside, he must’ve noticed me glance over because he then said oh shall I turn the speaker towards you ! I may have somewhat forcefully said No !!
They really couldn’t do anything quietly, drove me nuts .
Thankfully I now live pretty much in the middle of a field where all I can hear is birds !

You are not being unreasonable to not like it, but there is nothing you can do about it. At this time of year, and in the heatwave, people are understandably making use of their gardens. I frequently hear the neighbours talking, playing absolutely awful Eastern European music etc and it really does my head in, but equally, I play music sometimes, and I sit in the garden, sometimes from 7am to 11pm. At times I will have company and will be talking, or watching something on the TV, or listening to music. I don't have any of it blaring, but sound travels. Sometimes I have guests and it must be very noisy talking in a group, but there is nothing that can be done when you live in terrace houses. I would like everyone to be silent, but you can't expect them to

I have a Gson who plays in a very very loud rock band and he and I love it.

But one day we went for a sit-down by a quiet stream and someone with a ghetto blaster arrived and just blasted music out without the remotest consideration for anyone else - my G son, who plays the loudest music you can imagine where it is requested or does not impact on others was even more cross than I was!

And just don't get me started on workmen! Is it not possible to put one brick upon another without loud music?

I usually play white noise birdsong on my phone at a low level when this happens and it really helps disguise the radio noise.

We live in London, row of terraces with small gardens backing onto the same, and hearing music has been a feature of the long hot summer with windows open. Generally not too bad and we’re happy to hear people enjoy themselves but there is one house that backs on that takes it too far. There was loud drunken talking until 2am the other night from a few men and I thought it had all ceased but it was just the house owner getting his flaming guitar out and playing and singing , as on previous occasions, very badly and very loudly. It was like a comedy skit - suddenly there were windows being flung up all along both sides and people yelling at him to ‘ for God’s sake, stop ! ‘. He did.

You think making unnecessary noise is an indicator of having spunk? Following rules makes you easily manipulated?
Faced with the Nazis ( random comparison ?) I’d prefer people who thought about other people’s feelings as well as their own.

Well it’s not random since we were talking about how compliant the German public are

Eh? Your response makes no sense at all! Four sentences with increasingly tenuous connections to each other. It's emotional intelligence ...what is emotional intelligence? Using headphones?

Read the last 2 sentences together and that might help you 🙄

Unfortunately, I have neighbours either side who like to play their music quite loud in their gardens. One side is a woman who has the radio on all day when its sunny and sits out there with her dog (which has a squeaky toy to add insult to injury) and the other side will play shit hardcore/dance music and smoke a spliff at the same time.

Just the other day they were both playing their music at the same time and DP and I had to go inside as it was unbearable.

Anyone got a static at the end of a big field I can live in? Happy to take in ironing and all that...

So you only listen to your music via headphones (great! thank you!) but you reckon that anyone who does want to play loud music outside should be able to do, so although you don't expect the rest of the country to march to the beat of your drum, you do expect the nation to literally march to the beat of their music-loving neighbours' drums...okaay!
Perhaps it wasn't the best choice of idiom for this situation.
I'm still not entirely clear who you think is displaying emotional intelligence - the loud music players? Because I would have thought it's the people who don't subject their neighbours to their musical choices, but I don't think you'd agree...

It depends what it is.
Gregorian Chants and New Age stuff is OK but Twisted Sister and Meatloaf, not so much.

I think playing music outside is really selfish and antisocial. I like to hear the natural sounds - birds, wind in the trees etc. And even if I wanted to hear music, you can guarantee my taste would be different from somebody else's. If I want to listen to music while I'm gardening, I wear earphones. I don't inflict my choice of music on everybody else.

My neighbour is a complete and utter self absorbed idiot.
the level of her music is insanity. The police has been called and attended many times. It doesn’t put her off. I quite honestly despise her.

I dislike it and it's always crap dance music. Sometimes I retaliate with some Skid Row or Linkin Park.

Behind likes to play cheesy pop, when they are out on their decking. It doesn't bother me too much. However, the dog next to them barks incessantly when I go into my garden. So if I went into my garden right now, making minimal noise, they would be woken up by their next door neighbour's dog. It would also trigger the XL bully 5 doors away. Tempting.

The whole 11 pm thing is a complete myth. I think the origin of it is that many leases for leasehold properties, for example, will include clauses saying that there must be no noise emanating from your property between 11 pm and 7 am, etc. that does not mean that during the day people can make as much noise as they want to.

The people behind are scummers. I would put Marshall stacks in my garden and give it to them, full blast. It's a quiet area, we don't inflict noise on each other. These are the types who think they can do what they like. I will put as many speakers as I can in the garden and give them Led ZEP at full volume every night until they stop playing cheesy pop in their garden.