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gaijingirl

31-07-2005, 23:06

Ok ok .. I know it's not cool to be trying to sleep as early as midnight on a Sunday night and that I'm going to seem like a total killjoy, but WHAT THE FUCK is all the noise coming from the Brockwell Park area.... someone has got a HUGE PA systems and tons of screaming guests and is playing really loud wedding party type music (just had Queen: Don't Stop me Now).. which must be coming from really far away (given the position of where I live).... surely it's not possible that there's some kind of open air disco thingy actually in the park... I mean the Lido had something on last night and I never heard a peep... but this is SO noisy - just all the people screaming......

At least they could play some decent music....

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onenameshelley

01-08-2005, 11:07

That happened last week as well... fuckers :(

gaijingirl

01-08-2005, 11:17

YEs - I heard it last week too.. but where is it? I just can't understand where it would have been... it stopped at midnight with the PA bloke saying.. "give a big cheer for the DJS and other acts".. it sounded like it was outside and the party goers were going mad.. but from where I live.. (west side of the park near Brailsford Road etc) I really can't understand where there would be an outdoor party with a PA that big and the large numbers of attendees that I could hear... I walked across the park this morning and it did look quite messy, but I really can't believe that the park would be allowing such parties with such loud noise at that time on a Sunday night....

PacificOcean

01-08-2005, 11:18

Last Thursday there was a party at a house across the road and they were BLASTING out classical music until 2am.

HerneHillBilly

01-08-2005, 11:54

there was something going on in Dulwich college last, some kind of summer school disco. Could it be that? or is it too far away.

gaijingirl

01-08-2005, 12:01

No... that's really too far... I had to get up super early this morning so I was actually asleep only to be woken by some god-awful music and moronic "DJ"...

I dunno.. maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety... :(

tarannau

01-08-2005, 12:13

Bizarrely, it's rarely thump-thump techno which seems to get us either.

It used to be the pissed up Scottish fuckers playing 'take the high road' and singong along for hours and hours, or the cheesy RnB brigade, or some gawdawful dadrock.

We now live two doors away from what seems to one of Brixton's last houserigs, front door wide open and playing window-reverberating reggae and dub during the daylight hours. Hardly bothers us if I'm honest - almost soothing in its basslines.

But Queen at 2am? That should be a hanging offence...

:mad:

onenameshelley

01-08-2005, 12:14

Brixton Hatter

01-08-2005, 12:59

was it this?

This week’s events:

• BESTIVAL LIDO PARTY, LONDON – THIS SUNDAY
• BESTIVAL @ THE OXFORD, LONDON – THIS SATURDAY
• BESTIVAL @ THE LIZARD LOUNGE, SOUTHAMPTON – THIS THURSDAY

BESTIVAL LIDO PARTY – THIS SUNDAY!

Oh yes siree, we're returning to Brockwell Lido (between Brixton & Herne Hill in London) for two more parties this summer! The dates for your diaries are and .
Oh yes siree, we're returning to Brockwell Lido (between Brixton & Herne Hill in London) for two more parties this summer! The dates for your diaries are Sunday July 31 and Sunday August 28.

1st up, this Sunday, we bring you swimming, BBQ, fun & games with...

Rob da Bank
The Cuban Brothers
Hot Breath Karaoke
Sean Rowley’s Guilty Pleasures
and very special guest - Dave Elvis

It'll run from 7pm to 11.30pm (swimming from 7-9pm only) and cost you a mere fiver to get in. 1st come 1st served and its gonna be road-blocked so get there early if you don't wanna miss out!

Bestival Lido Party @ Brockwell Park Lido, Dulwich Road, SE24 0PA. 7 – 11.30pm. £5 on the door.
www.thelido.co.uk

I went to a few of their parties last summer - quite good actually, although the lido can't stay open that late. Don't remember them playing any queen though!

gaijingirl

01-08-2005, 13:25

I guess it must have been... although I poo-pooed Kublai when he said it must be at the Lido.. because the sound would have to really travel and I could make out every word of the "DJ".... must have been a nightmare for anyone living next to the Lido... and the Saturday night Lido party was dead quiet!!

oooooooooh... it's so annoying... the reason I was in bed so early is that I got up super early to go swimming in the Lido this morning... and if those parties help the Lido.. then cool... but it was SO loud!!

Mrs Magpie

01-08-2005, 13:32

It all depends on the wind direction though....I don't live close to Brockwell Park at all, but I've heard music from events there clear enough at my house.

Ms T

02-08-2005, 09:40

I didn't hear a thing on Sunday night and we're not far from the Lido...

gaijingirl

02-08-2005, 09:43

Probably was the wind direction then... :(

gaijingirl

29-08-2005, 21:32

Oh bloody hell...it's happening again!!

WHY not last night... WHY tonight?? :mad:

SubZeroCat

29-08-2005, 21:41

Oh bloody hell...it's happening again!!

WHY not last night... WHY tonight?? :mad:

I'm in Streatham and all day long there's been a party/wedding/christening or whatever with very loud music playing nearby. I don't really mind too much but we did have to turn up the TV and they did play Wet Wet Wet !

Badger Kitten

29-08-2005, 21:55

Next door had a party last night and played a wierd mixture of early 90's cheesey euro-techno, Abba and salsa. They are Polish, but half way through the evening they all turned Spanish and started 'ay-curumba-ing' all about the place.

I had a quick boogie in the yard and then took a Nyghtol.

Donna Ferentes

29-08-2005, 21:58

There's a number on the Lambeth Council website for reporting noise. You have to call before 2am, if I recall. Something like that.

Donna Ferentes

29-08-2005, 22:00

Here (http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/HousingPlanning/HousingAdvice/Noise.htm). 020 7926 5999. It says 5am on the site but that's not what they used to tell me...

gaijingirl

30-08-2005, 08:43

Thank you.. I feel like a right old moaner and the problem is, if it's at the Lido, they need the money I don't really want to complain... but I wanted to go for a swim before work and I was too knackered .... again... :(

The good thing though is that I reckon it may have been a carnival after party as it was much more calypso type music.. which was a relief after last time's horror!!

twisted

30-08-2005, 10:04

Last Thursday there was a party at a house across the road and they were BLASTING out classical music until 2am.

wow....when I lived in Manchester I got to know a few hard living people at the RNCM and they did that all the time. Was funny seeing the police's reaction when they turned up with all these toffs out of their heads on chisel and Shostakovich blasting thru the speakers.

ChrisFilter

30-08-2005, 10:23

there's some place that plays well loud tunes near corner of atlantic rd and chl every sunday, often until 3 or 4am, used to think it was tongue and groove but it's not.. no idea what it is, but sometimes quite annoying. always well hard to sleep on a sunday anyway!

Donna Ferentes

31-08-2005, 08:13

Don't expect any sympathy from Jonathan Myerson (http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,,1559077,00.html)

gaijingirl

31-08-2005, 08:29

"More than half of the residents in my ward have no access to recycling - they live on housing estates."

What a load of old tosh. We have huge recycling bins on my estate as we did in the last place I lived - also a council block. We don't even have to bother with the whole green/orange bag thing, we can just chuck it all in the big green bins. We used to have to seperate it up into different compartments, but this year they changed it to large bins that take the lot - so even easier!

tarannau

31-08-2005, 09:34

Bit of a crap article, but I do have some sympathy for Myerson's basic point about noise pollution and the apparent double-standards about the 'class of noise.' I may have no interest in the alternative sk8r games, but they've every right to make as much of a din as the latest Pimm's sponsored classical musical event.

I do believe we should be tolerant of noise in London upto a certain point. Late night Sunday and weekday parties clearly go against common sense, but people should be able to cut loose a little at weekends and expect a little tolerance. In a busy urban location - complete with the competing sounds of police sirens, helicopters, roaring traffic and screaming children - the dull thump of distantish bass doesn't sound all that offensive to me.

And, besides, I'd hate to think what many newcomers to the area would have thought of the Brixton of my childhood, where far more people frequently sat outside their houses, front doors open and stereos blazing out the latest sounds to friends and neighbours. Seemed far more sociable a community back then if I'm honest, largely self-regulating and played only during reasonable hours

The expectation today that people should use their homes as quiet dormitories, going out to drink and entertain themselves in the local sanctioned/licensed 'entertainment spots' always seems a little alien to me. I can understand the reasons behind the dislike of hearing others' noise in my home, but I sometimes think that overheard music gets a disproportionate reaction compared to other sources of noise pollution.

Donna Ferentes

31-08-2005, 10:15

Mmm, I'm not sure it's "the dull thump of distantish bass" that pisses people off.

tobyjug

31-08-2005, 10:37

Mmm, I'm not sure it's "the dull thump of distantish bass" that pisses people off.

It is the most common complaint about illegal raves, it is a sound that can cause a noise disturbance up to ten miles away.

Gavin Bl

31-08-2005, 11:31

I can understand the reasons behind the dislike of hearing others' noise in my home, but I sometimes think that overheard music gets a disproportionate reaction compared to other sources of noise pollution.

I agree you should cut people a little slack now and again, but in all honesty, I think that for every person who complains at the drop of a hat, there are 10 or more, who put up with night after night of loud intrusive music, to the point where it negatively affects their mental, and possibly phyiscal, health.

tarannau

31-08-2005, 13:10

That may well be true, and nobody should have to put up with 'night after night' noise from the same source if avoidable.

However, I also suspect that those repeatedly complaining tend not be those who suffer repeatedly from obscene volume levels, more that they're the most intolerant and voiciferous of objectors.

Donna Ferentes

31-08-2005, 13:11

On what basis do you suspect this?

suzee blue cheese

31-08-2005, 13:57

I think an otherwise tolerant person can be maddened by repeated noise disturbance to a point where they are no longer able to tune noise out in the same way they used to. Once you've become sensitised to something, there's no real going back. This is my own experience anyway, whether it be hammers & drills, shouting or music.

And some kinds of music is more insistent than others - I find it a lot easier to live with the rythyms of someone else's Reggae or Dub as an aural backdrop than someone else's Bashment/Techno/Heavy Metal.

Gavin Bl

31-08-2005, 14:04

lang rabbie

31-08-2005, 15:22

Gaijingirl has rebutted the first sentence on recycling (http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=3461808&postcount=23), so let's move on to sentence two:

The South Circular runs through my ward, encouraging bumper-to-bumper traffic and all its noxious byproducts.

Oh no it doesn't (http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/109945A4-55FF-4921-AAA2-BCB7F5DC6EF1/0/024615.pdf)

suzee blue cheese

31-08-2005, 15:56

The good thing though is that I reckon it may have been a carnival after party as it was much more calypso type music.. which was a relief after last time's horror!!

It was the Bestival party as posted by Brixton Hatter earlier in the thread. I was thinking to drop by for this one but ran out of enthusiasm as the day progressed and did other things instead. Think we sat outside the Queens in Ferndale to catch the last of the rays near us and could hear some long distance bass coming over on the wind which we reckoned was probably from the gig on Clap Common.

Sound does travel on the wind. Used to be able to hear the music and shrieks from the fairground back in my home town if the wind was blowing in the right direction, not otherwise.

gaijingirl

31-08-2005, 16:03

It was the Bestival party as posted by Brixton Hatter earlier in the thread. I was thinking to drop by for this one but ran out of enthusiasm as the day progressed and did other things instead. Think we sat outside the Queens in Ferndale to catch the last of the rays near us and could hear some long distance bass coming over on the wind which we reckoned was probably from the gig on Clap Common.
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But Brixton Hatter's post referred to my original moan about noise on August 1st.. was it also Bestival on Monday 29th - my second moan... :D ?