I'm sick to fucken death of shit like this. It's four days out of 365, it's not going to bloody kill them. We had the same sort of noise complaints things here, but instead the residents were complaining that the offroaders on the firebreak were making too much noise. One even went as far as to suggest the offroaders only get 1 day a year to use the firebreaks. People are always fucken complaining. The offroaders aren't even as noisy as the motormowers here in the summer, and I should know, I've lived here 19 years. Are people just not suppose to have interests and passions if they're too noisy? Not all of us want to sit at home and knit all day. Sorry for the rant, but this is something that really gets on my nerves.
i have a noise meter in my mobile telephone
they are fucken EVERYWHERE
i intend to use it when fucken annoying teenage girls screech at each other at the top of their lungs the next time i am on the bus or the tube
then, i will report them to the appropriate staff member
Health and Safety law will fuck you up every time
Yeah people should fuck up and let others have a bit of fun ..
theres no way a bit of music would affect your sleeping, UNLESS you got yourself all worked up about it ..
anyway, surely if you lived overlooking Mystery Creek, you would expect the odd noisy event from time to time, isn't that what the place is for???
its like those fucks in wellington who move into shitty apartments to get a taste of city life, then complain about how loud the bars and the boy racers and the street cleaners are
i went to a dance party at a youth club in the Hutt once, and we got a noise abatement notice because people on the hill on the far side of the river and the motorway and about half a kilometre of bush had kicked up a stink .. we could hardly hear the music standing in front of the fucking building...
If they manage to make it any quieter than this year I don't think the event would be worth attending. I think what the residents around the venue are complaining about is the noise of the people. When I was listenining to one of the bands I went to see, Pillar, the audience talking around me was so loud I had to move closer to the front so I could hear the fucking band. I like to wear ear plugs usually at gigs to protect my ears... but at parachute this year, I didn't need to. If I could sleep in the middle of the day 20 meters away from one of the stages, how can residents not sleep at night? Why can't they just come down and enjoy the concert like everyone else?
I agree with you guys, i was tented right near the Cage (loud indoor venue) and managed to get to sleep before midnight! I live near a racecourse in Christchurch and of course occasionally you can hear the commentators going on for hours, but i dont go get out my noise metre and write complaints!! The Eastercamp i attend in Chch also gets alot of noise complaints, but wherever it is held some people are going to be affected. The festival and eastercamp are so much fun, alot of people have a great times, but its the tight people who kick up big stinks about noise that really smell :-( I can understand how annoying it must be to have noise a few days a year, but then if its so much of a problem they could probably go on a holiday. Sorry for rant..
Point taken noisy, but that's crap. Kids can sleep through anything. I remember once late at night my niece was sleeping and the store across the road was set on fire, we had booms, cracks, bangs, fire engine sirens and hammering going on for a few hours and she slept through the whole thing. If it really annoys people, maybe they should think about getting that sound proof insulation shit for their houses ... especially if they live next to a fucking large music venue.
aha. true. some things are more capable at disrupting sleep though, and repetitive bass is near the top of the list. consistent but random loud noise is more easily filtered out by the mind, for all sorts of evolutionary explanations that I won't go into now. eg. a single cicada chirping just outside your open window can keep you awake for hours, but a couple of dozen cicadas chirping sporadically as a group can actually have a lulling effect. the mind's a crazy thing.
// especially if they live next to a fucking large music venue.
how close were these houses? When I've been to Mystery Creek (for Fieldays of all things), I thought the place was pretty well removed from residential properties. And how often is it used as a music venue - I was under the impression it was more of multi-purpose show/sport/exhibition centre, and that music events were pretty rare.
There were kids at parachute. They seemed to have fun. One boy followed me around... he was entertained by a bird he had rapped up in a towl. There's something for everyone at parachute. Why couldn't the neighbours have come?
all over and done by midnight, 2 or 3 nights out of 365, plenty of prior-warning about the event in order to make other arangements ... i do think people get themselves worked up over noise issues.
is anyone sure that the complaints were not about the noise level, but the quality of the music?
that should be a totally legitimate complaint - "Hello noise control - yes there are people playing atrocious christian music right next to my house, please make it stop... PLEASE!"
no, no, no, put all the young people out on the street and have them spread out and cause problems instead....
"young people today, they're just trouble, they should have places to go so not to get them selves in trouble... (next week) all those damn young people gathered together in one place, it shouldn't be allowed you know, shouldn't be allowed!"
I woulda just like, went to the destival dressed like satan holding a massive sign saying "Its All About Satan". Just to piss them off, it would be funny. They wouldnt hurt me coz there "christians" right?? if they did i woulda busted out my baseball bat.
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I'm sick to fucken death of shit like ...
I'm sick to fucken death of shit like this. It's four days out of 365, it's not going to bloody kill them. We had the same sort of noise complaints things here, but instead the residents were complaining that the offroaders on the firebreak were making too much noise. One even went as far as to suggest the offroaders only get 1 day a year to use the firebreaks. People are always fucken complaining. The offroaders aren't even as noisy as the motormowers here in the summer, and I should know, I've lived here 19 years. Are people just not suppose to have interests and passions if they're too noisy? Not all of us want to sit at home and knit all day. Sorry for the rant, but this is something that really gets on my nerves.
//A neighbour with a noise meter ...
//A neighbour with a noise meter recorded 80 decibels at his home during the festival, said Mr Whitehead.
Rule #1: Regardless of how well-insulated your rock festival is, never leave it in a neighbourhood where the locals admit to owning noise meters.
i have a noise meter in my mobile ...
i have a noise meter in my mobile telephone
they are fucken EVERYWHERE
i intend to use it when fucken annoying teenage girls screech at each other at the top of their lungs the next time i am on the bus or the tube
then, i will report them to the appropriate staff member
Health and Safety law will fuck you up every time
Yeah people should fuck up and let ...
Yeah people should fuck up and let others have a bit of fun ..
theres no way a bit of music would affect your sleeping, UNLESS you got yourself all worked up about it ..
anyway, surely if you lived overlooking Mystery Creek, you would expect the odd noisy event from time to time, isn't that what the place is for???
its like those fucks in wellington who move into shitty apartments to get a taste of city life, then complain about how loud the bars and the boy racers and the street cleaners are
i went to a dance party at a youth club in the Hutt once, and we got a noise abatement notice because people on the hill on the far side of the river and the motorway and about half a kilometre of bush had kicked up a stink .. we could hardly hear the music standing in front of the fucking building...
man . .
i'm with the christians on this one i'm afraid
If they manage to make it any quieter ...
If they manage to make it any quieter than this year I don't think the event would be worth attending. I think what the residents around the venue are complaining about is the noise of the people. When I was listenining to one of the bands I went to see, Pillar, the audience talking around me was so loud I had to move closer to the front so I could hear the fucking band. I like to wear ear plugs usually at gigs to protect my ears... but at parachute this year, I didn't need to. If I could sleep in the middle of the day 20 meters away from one of the stages, how can residents not sleep at night? Why can't they just come down and enjoy the concert like everyone else?
I agree with you guys, i was tented ...
I agree with you guys, i was tented right near the Cage (loud indoor venue) and managed to get to sleep before midnight! I live near a racecourse in Christchurch and of course occasionally you can hear the commentators going on for hours, but i dont go get out my noise metre and write complaints!! The Eastercamp i attend in Chch also gets alot of noise complaints, but wherever it is held some people are going to be affected. The festival and eastercamp are so much fun, alot of people have a great times, but its the tight people who kick up big stinks about noise that really smell :-( I can understand how annoying it must be to have noise a few days a year, but then if its so much of a problem they could probably go on a holiday. Sorry for rant..
none of you people have kids, I'm ...
none of you people have kids, I'm guessing...?
...or have 23,000 spotty teens hanging ...
...or have 23,000 spotty teens hanging out next door.
Point taken noisy, but that's crap. ...
Point taken noisy, but that's crap. Kids can sleep through anything. I remember once late at night my niece was sleeping and the store across the road was set on fire, we had booms, cracks, bangs, fire engine sirens and hammering going on for a few hours and she slept through the whole thing. If it really annoys people, maybe they should think about getting that sound proof insulation shit for their houses ... especially if they live next to a fucking large music venue.
// Kids can sleep through ...
// Kids can sleep through anything.
aha. true. some things are more capable at disrupting sleep though, and repetitive bass is near the top of the list. consistent but random loud noise is more easily filtered out by the mind, for all sorts of evolutionary explanations that I won't go into now. eg. a single cicada chirping just outside your open window can keep you awake for hours, but a couple of dozen cicadas chirping sporadically as a group can actually have a lulling effect. the mind's a crazy thing.
// especially if they live next to a fucking large music venue.
how close were these houses? When I've been to Mystery Creek (for Fieldays of all things), I thought the place was pretty well removed from residential properties. And how often is it used as a music venue - I was under the impression it was more of multi-purpose show/sport/exhibition centre, and that music events were pretty rare.
There were kids at parachute. They ...
There were kids at parachute. They seemed to have fun. One boy followed me around... he was entertained by a bird he had rapped up in a towl. There's something for everyone at parachute. Why couldn't the neighbours have come?
all over and done by midnight, 2 or 3 ...
all over and done by midnight, 2 or 3 nights out of 365, plenty of prior-warning about the event in order to make other arangements ... i do think people get themselves worked up over noise issues.
Maybe they didn't want to spend money ...
Maybe they didn't want to spend money going to something that didn't interest them at all?
if i lived next door i would hire the ...
if i lived next door i would hire the hugest PA i could get and then play Highway to Hell on repeat from midnight till 8am.
that'll fuck the neighbours and the christians right off, which would be the ultimate goal of course. (kids love ac/dc
yeah except it would blend in with the ...
yeah except it would blend in with the other music playing and no one would be able to hear the song properly.
is anyone sure that the complaints were ...
is anyone sure that the complaints were not about the noise level, but the quality of the music?
that should be a totally legitimate complaint - "Hello noise control - yes there are people playing atrocious christian music right next to my house, please make it stop... PLEASE!"
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Hey don't knock Fourth Member bro . . . They rock!!!
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no, no, no, put all the young people ...
no, no, no, put all the young people out on the street and have them spread out and cause problems instead....
"young people today, they're just trouble, they should have places to go so not to get them selves in trouble... (next week) all those damn young people gathered together in one place, it shouldn't be allowed you know, shouldn't be allowed!"
I woulda just like, went to the ...
I woulda just like, went to the destival dressed like satan holding a massive sign saying "Its All About Satan". Just to piss them off, it would be funny. They wouldnt hurt me coz there "christians" right?? if they did i woulda busted out my baseball bat.
*festival...
*festival