Reading festival noise

[anonymous-user]

sas62 said:

I'm 12 miles south as the crow flies - can't hear a thing.

West or east? I'm west of the festival.

[manracer]

I'm currently lay in bed with my huge Velux roof window open, 7.3 miles from creamfields and can currently hear the chemical brothers rather clearly and I'm really enjoying it!

Edited by manracer on Saturday 24th August 23:02

[EXMX5]

Pigdoguk said:

West or east? I'm west of the festival.

I'm east and 8-10 miles away depending on which way I drive and haven't heard a thing all day. I've never heard it here, but did (just) when I lived in Calcot.

The stage does face the west which is probably your issue.

[Mr Tidy]

Mrs Tidy and I paid about £100 each for a one-day ticket back in 2012 for the Sunday as the Kaiser Chiefs and Black Keys were playing, with the Foo Fighters headlining.

We would have loved to listen to them all from our back garden, but Binfield was a bit too far away sadly!

I suppose it all depends on what you like, but to be fair 3 days a year shouldn't be a big issue - should it?

[Wacky Racer]

egor110 said:

Wacky Racer said:

I went to Reading festival in 1975 (Wishbone Ash) and being near the front we were bombarded with hundreds of half empty beer cans thrown from the idiots at the back.

What a waste of beer

That wasn't beer !

I thought it tasted a bit funny...….

[NGee]

Pigdoguk said:

West or east? I'm west of the festival.

10 miles west of the festival should put you somewhere about Bucklebury. Have a word with the Middletons, they might have some influence and could complain on your behalf!!!

[defblade]

Driver101 said:

I don't think anyone is under any illusion that a concert is going to be loud. I've never heard anyone saying a gig is too loud before.

Maybe your ears are damaged?

Gigs in St David's Hall in Cardiff are usually too loud. By which I mean that they turn all the amps up well into clipping/distortion and all chance of listening to the music disappears. There's no need - for example, we went to see Elvis Costello there; he was doing a one-man tour. At one point, he put everything down and sat on the front of the stage and just sang, completely unaided. You could hear him across the whole hall. So why have the speakers so loud they wipe everything out?

We don't go to concerts there anymore.

And that's from me... someone who stands (well, used to stand... I'm not sure "RIP" is right for Lemmy though!) next to the speaker stack at MotorHead gigs

(Coming up: already put Foo Fighters on to record on BBC4 tonight; real gigs this autumn: Alice Cooper, The Struts, Michael Monroe... I'm a glam boy at heart )

[bad company]

defblade said:

Maybe your ears are damaged?

Gigs in St David's Hall in Cardiff are usually too loud. By which I mean that they turn all the amps up well into clipping/distortion and all chance of listening to the music disappears. There's no need - for example, we went to see Elvis Costello there; he was doing a one-man tour. At one point, he put everything down and sat on the front of the stage and just sang, completely unaided. You could hear him across the whole hall. So why have the speakers so loud they wipe everything out?

We don't go to concerts there anymore.

And that's from me... someone who stands (well, used to stand... I'm not sure "RIP" is right for Lemmy though!) next to the speaker stack at MotorHead gigs

(Coming up: already put Foo Fighters on to record on BBC4 tonight; real gigs this autumn: Alice Cooper, The Struts, Michael Monroe... I'm a glam boy at heart )

You’re right. I once went to a Rolling Stones gig at Wembley Arena, it was too loud for the venue so the sound was distorted. Mrs BC and I both had ringing ears for the next 2 days which was horrible and worrying.

[irc]

Pigdoguk said:

Pericoloso said:

You consider that trolling.

It's a reasonable suggestion.

Really? So I should plan a holiday on the off chance a festival, in another town that has never caused an issue over the last several years might be louder?

Totally reasonable.

Well it might be worth it next year? Now you know of the issue.

[Wooda80]

Wacky Racer said:

egor110 said:

Wacky Racer said:

I went to Reading festival in 1975 (Wishbone Ash) and being near the front we were bombarded with hundreds of half empty beer cans thrown from the idiots at the back.

What a waste of beer

That wasn't beer !

I thought it tasted a bit funny...….

I usually work on if it feels cool / cold then you're probably ok..

[Helicopter123]

Hasn't this been going on since the 1970s or something like that?

Surely the OP was aware of this, or at least should have been, when buying the house?

It's a bit like buying a house next to an airport or racetrack and then moaning about the noise...

[Riley Blue]

Helicopter123 said:

Hasn't this been going on since the 1970s or something like that?

Surely the OP was aware of this, or at least should have been, when buying the house?

It's a bit like buying a house next to an airport or racetrack and then moaning about the noise...

He lives 10 miles away, not 'next to'. I once lived eight miles from Pilton and never heard the festival once in over 25 years.

[DoubleD]

meatballs said:

That's all great as long as people are made aware of the potential hazard and make an informed choice. I doubt a lot of teenagers are.

Are you for real?

[WJNB]

I can identify with such occasional racket although have never experienced festival noise as such. My week-ends can be noisy if neighbour has grandkids around, shrieking & screaming much of the day but it is not every week-end thank God. Local football/rugby matches can be heard plus a scabby banger racing circuit ( every oik in their transit van from every council estate descends ) but again not every day or every week-end.
We do however live in an increasingly selfish me me me shouty noisy world so much so I carry ear plugs in my wallet, perfect for on the train, plane & cafe's when the Yummy Mummies turn up with their string of brats.

[Cold]

If it's a reading festival why all the discussion about speakers?

[Glosphil]

An Aussie Pink Floyd concert in Cheltenham Town hall was the loudest I have every attended. After the interval at least 10% of the audience did not return. The next local paper carried complaints about the volumn from people who had been in Cheltenham pubs that night.

[Driver101]

DoubleD said:

meatballs said:

That's all great as long as people are made aware of the potential hazard and make an informed choice. I doubt a lot of teenagers are.

Are you for real?

Modern times. There needs to be stickers above the hot water tap to identify that the hot water will be hot these days.

[meatballs]

DoubleD said:

Are you for real?

Good discussion. Would chat again.

[Driver101]

defblade said:

Driver101 said:

I don't think anyone is under any illusion that a concert is going to be loud. I've never heard anyone saying a gig is too loud before.

Maybe your ears are damaged?

Gigs in St David's Hall in Cardiff are usually too loud. By which I mean that they turn all the amps up well into clipping/distortion and all chance of listening to the music disappears. There's no need - for example, we went to see Elvis Costello there; he was doing a one-man tour. At one point, he put everything down and sat on the front of the stage and just sang, completely unaided. You could hear him across the whole hall. So why have the speakers so loud they wipe everything out?

We don't go to concerts there anymore.

And that's from me... someone who stands (well, used to stand... I'm not sure "RIP" is right for Lemmy though!) next to the speaker stack at MotorHead gigs

(Coming up: already put Foo Fighters on to record on BBC4 tonight; real gigs this autumn: Alice Cooper, The Struts, Michael Monroe... I'm a glam boy at heart )

I go to lots of gigs and the only one that really shocked me with the noise was The Prodigy.

I get hearing tests at work and always score very well.

[RichardJS]

There's a near constant noise coming from the main road next to my house, especially when the windows are open. Should I complain as well?