Turn It Up!

[Teaboy]

Large events like this are what makes life worthwhile if you are one of the people enjoying the event. They can have the opposite effect for everyone else if they are not managed properly.

But the point is it's just part and parcel of life. Other peoples enjoyment will sometimes impinge upon yours.

Air shows make a bloody big noise so should it just be gliders? Fireworks shows similarily.

If it was a regular problem then I could understand it but 3 days a year?

However the way the country is going there is no chance this is going to change. So the only thing will be to move the festivals to the country.

That being said Glasto is in the sticks and they've got the same problem. It's particuarly laughable because of the residents of Pilton (the nearest village) only 3 residents were living there prior to the start of the festival. What a nimby crock of shit.

 

[sherriff rosco]

A properly set up festival sound system has to fill a vast area with enough spl to keep the punters happy but not piss off the residents. At Bestival last week a couple of tents were WAY too loud and causing the majority of the off-site problems, the punters were loving it BUT the whole festival gets hammered with the fine. The opposite with the Killers set two years ago at Glasto, the weather caused the sound to travel too far and so the noise limits were over applied and everyone moaned that it was too quiet. The system on the main stage at this years Glasto was done with loads of new arraying techniques to keep the arena loud and off site quiet. This tech` is developing all the time with better computer management of speaker systems and careful pre-event mapping is heading towards the " anti -sound " barrier where the edge of an audience area can be defined and the sound limited to that area . It`s a way off yet but will certainly mean that both parties get what they want...

.p.

Road noise= motorbikes...well that`s a sweeping statement? Round here in N.London it`s the Bwad Bwoyyys in their Astras and clapped out BMW`s with straight through exhausts keep me awake, the bikes are tame in comparison!

 

[kabbes]

It's the motorbikes hitting 60mph in a 30mph zone that I hear if I'm in the garden. I don't hear cars. I don't even hear the lorries.

 

[free spirit]

Can't agree with people saying new locations need to be found. There would probably be more objection to a new site by locals (there will always be some) and councils/police etc than to a recurring festival. Saying that there have been loads of new events over the last few years (too many IMO).

We need realistic laws & sound levels to start with, that's where the change needs to happen IMO.

problem is that as far as a council is concerned, a realistic sound level is one that balances the needs of the event organisers / punters with the needs of local residents, resulting in the current situation.


IMO the best way of dealing with this is personal face to face contact with all the most affected local residents through the festival, which is what you don't get with electronic sound monitoring equipment dotted all round the place, and some faceless person sat on the end of a phone handling complaints. There's nothing to beat personal contact to make someone feel that they've been listened to and understood, and compromises can then be reached such as the festival paying for them to go away for the weekend / free tickets etc. Either that or sometimes simply by having spoken to them face to face that's enough to satisfy them and stop them making an official complaint.