A judge has compared the regular repetition of songs by buskers in Leicester Square to the tools of “psychological torture” and ordered Westminster city council to pull the plug on amplified street performers.
The local authority allowed buskers to add amps to their performances as the West End reopened after the pandemic, but Global Radio — the owner of LBC, Heart FM, and Classic FM among others — took the council to court after staff were forced to retreat inside cupboards to take phone calls away from the noise of what the judge referred to as “industrially amplified daily concerts” outside their windows.
Sounds like those guys playing bagpipes on Westminster Bridge
They are just so loud. I don’t have anything against buskers but they shouldn’t be allowed amplifiers.
Good.
Next can we stop the incredibly loud buskers on the underground, they should not be so loud as to drown out the station announcements or be so loud as to be unpleasant to walk past.
I got tinnitus from the cunts playing hit the road jack in the metropolitan line carriages
I hope the noise crackdown applies to the terribly loud and annoying pedicabs too!
Yes please. Especially those twats busking in the middle of a T-intersection at Chinatown
Somebody save this thread for next week when the next “NIMBYs are ruining Soho with noise complaints” thread comes up.
Turns out that it is possible for noise to be excessive and take the piss even when it’s something that has always been part of an area, and the other people in the area sometimes have a point? Either that, or everyone ITT never should have visited the West End if loud music bothers them so much.
What about those religious nut jobs shouting into a microphone? That is a bigger problem in my opinion.
Nice, I hope they actually enforce it
This is good. I don’t mind acoustic buskers. In Trafalgar Sq the other day there was a woman sawing on a violin to mindless pop drivel. If was super loud and she could not play in tune. As a one-time player I am sensitive this.
Buskers completely devalue a location and are catnip to pickpockets. They are completely pointless – if you want to see a shitty painted guy standing on a platform hidden in his clothes, then go to Times Square.
My office is above Leicester Sq, and it’s a mind fuck hearing the same bloke sing the same couple songs everyday.
Can we do something about the preachers, too?
Moved in to a flat in Stratford-Upon-Avon. On my first day I saw a building-wide petition posted on the noticeboard trying to get everyone to sign in order to stop buskers using amps. I thought they were just being fussy. For the next 3 years I’d wake up to a loud af amp outside my window with the same dude playing “Blame it on me” by George Ezra – every day. He wasn’t even good, in fact he was awful. It drove me insane, absolutely hated waking up to repetitive bad music blasting through my window.
Target the preachers first, please
Absolutely. It’s noise pollution.
No word about that obnoxious clock outside M&M world though.
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A judge has compared the regular repetition of songs by buskers in Leicester Square to the tools of “psychological torture” and ordered Westminster city council to pull the plug on amplified street performers.
The local authority allowed buskers to add amps to their performances as the West End reopened after the pandemic, but Global Radio — the owner of LBC, Heart FM, and Classic FM among others — took the council to court after staff were forced to retreat inside cupboards to take phone calls away from the noise of what the judge referred to as “industrially amplified daily concerts” outside their windows.
[https://www.thetimes.com/uk/london/article/nuisance-busking-akin-to-torture-says-judge-in-west-end-noise-crackdown-rzlj8jq7b?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1743419423](https://www.thetimes.com/uk/london/article/nuisance-busking-akin-to-torture-says-judge-in-west-end-noise-crackdown-rzlj8jq7b?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1743419423)
Sounds like those guys playing bagpipes on Westminster Bridge
They are just so loud. I don’t have anything against buskers but they shouldn’t be allowed amplifiers.
Good.
Next can we stop the incredibly loud buskers on the underground, they should not be so loud as to drown out the station announcements or be so loud as to be unpleasant to walk past.
I got tinnitus from the cunts playing hit the road jack in the metropolitan line carriages
I hope the noise crackdown applies to the terribly loud and annoying pedicabs too!
Yes please. Especially those twats busking in the middle of a T-intersection at Chinatown
Somebody save this thread for next week when the next “NIMBYs are ruining Soho with noise complaints” thread comes up.
Turns out that it is possible for noise to be excessive and take the piss even when it’s something that has always been part of an area, and the other people in the area sometimes have a point? Either that, or everyone ITT never should have visited the West End if loud music bothers them so much.
What about those religious nut jobs shouting into a microphone? That is a bigger problem in my opinion.
Nice, I hope they actually enforce it
This is good. I don’t mind acoustic buskers. In Trafalgar Sq the other day there was a woman sawing on a violin to mindless pop drivel. If was super loud and she could not play in tune. As a one-time player I am sensitive this.
Buskers completely devalue a location and are catnip to pickpockets. They are completely pointless – if you want to see a shitty painted guy standing on a platform hidden in his clothes, then go to Times Square.
My office is above Leicester Sq, and it’s a mind fuck hearing the same bloke sing the same couple songs everyday.
Can we do something about the preachers, too?
Moved in to a flat in Stratford-Upon-Avon. On my first day I saw a building-wide petition posted on the noticeboard trying to get everyone to sign in order to stop buskers using amps. I thought they were just being fussy. For the next 3 years I’d wake up to a loud af amp outside my window with the same dude playing “Blame it on me” by George Ezra – every day. He wasn’t even good, in fact he was awful. It drove me insane, absolutely hated waking up to repetitive bad music blasting through my window.
Target the preachers first, please
Absolutely. It’s noise pollution.
No word about that obnoxious clock outside M&M world though.
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