So, you think a Music Festival on the first day of summer is a good idea?
So did I. In the beginning. Until the bar in front of my flat invited amateur musicians who make my ears bleed.
Now... it's true that I worship Mozart, but... I love all music - from Gregorian hymns to heavy metal. But I decide the type of music I'm going to listen to (I'm not going to a Dir En Grey concert if I'm in the mood for some Leonard Cohen - and vice versa).
Oh, I remember being excited about everybody being allowed to play music anywhere in France on June 21st, but now it's mostly a patchwork of cacophonies.
There are currently three bands in my street (and two not twenty metres apart!).
Since I've read that more and more cities are thinking of adopting the Fête de la musique, allow me to give you a glimpse of your future: (sorry about my voice, I still have a sore throat from the cold I caught a fortnight ago)
Are you sure you want to live with that kind of noise for hours on end, no way to escape and no way to complain (it's legal up to midnight - whether you want to sleep, or you need to sleep - and if you do complain, people will say that you're an old twat who doesn't know how to have fun / funnily enough, my fun doesn't include bugging perfect strangers, but then again, I wasn't raised in a barn).
Remember. It looks like a good idea - on paper.
Choose... wisely.
2 comments:
we get concerts in a outdoor riding school outside the village, so away from houses and on until 1 or 2 am! thankfully at weekends but still! sadly I live on a couple of hundred yards over the hill so hear all of them for free! and my fiends are jealous! loud country music at 2am not my choice! and 2 fields is not enough to drown it or mute it! could you not get them to move one as it is too close to each other? just the sound volume from two competing is too much!
Ouch!
I really don't understand that "circus" mentality. I'm not against people having fun; I just don't want their fun to make me deaf... Apparently, that's too much to ask.
There's nothing I can do because everything's legal that day as long as they got a permit from the coppers (and they must have). The two bars are making too much money to let that goose go. Plonkers!
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