Is this normal? Can you explain it?
Discussion
We back onto a cricket club, and when we moved in a couple of years ago, we knew it was there and considered that the occasional thwack of a cricket ball on a Sunday afternoon, accompanied by gentle applause and a resounding "jolly good shot old chap" would be entirely amenable. It's regarded as a "good" area, decent houses, decent families, low crime rate.
However, this particular club have a habit of enjoying making lots of noise (shouting, music, playing football, yes, football, into the evening, etc). We've taken it up with them a few times; the noise has generally subsided afterwards although it tends to start building up again after a while.
Today however takes it to a new level. They have a cricket match on (still playing, it's 19.45 and raining). At around lunchtime today, they set up a large PA outside the pavilion, and all afternoon, every time an event takes place on the pitch (a run scored, someone out, someone walking back to the pavilion, their star player taking the crease), they blast out 10-15 secs of music at what must be 130dB. We haven't been able to use the garden, open the doors or windows, and can only watch the TV by turning the volume up. Samples of the music in use include:
- Someone out: "Howzat" by Sherbet (tres originale) or "Another one bites the dust"
- Walking back to the pavilion: "Tragedy", Bee Gees
- Scoring a run: "Boom Boom Boom Boom", Vengaboys
And they repeat this EVERY SINGLE FKING TIME something happens on the pitch. And whilst I appreciate that in a game of cricket, that's only every 3 or 4 minutes, it's been constant all afternoon.
Aside from the fact that after 6.5 hours and counting of this, I'm wound tighter than an over-wound clock spring and fit to murder someone (physical build and facial hair aside, I genuinely don't trust myself to go round there just now) this seems to be the most utterly bizarre thing for a cricket club to do. I'm thinking gentlemen, pipes, cucumber sandwiches, and instead I've got a field full of tnucs who are probably planning a "fkin large night out" at Chicago Rock after the match.
So tell me: do I live (and not for much longer) next to the most chav-invested poxy low-life cricket club in the world, or am I completely out of touch and this is now considered normal practice in the world of leather and willow?
However, this particular club have a habit of enjoying making lots of noise (shouting, music, playing football, yes, football, into the evening, etc). We've taken it up with them a few times; the noise has generally subsided afterwards although it tends to start building up again after a while.
Today however takes it to a new level. They have a cricket match on (still playing, it's 19.45 and raining). At around lunchtime today, they set up a large PA outside the pavilion, and all afternoon, every time an event takes place on the pitch (a run scored, someone out, someone walking back to the pavilion, their star player taking the crease), they blast out 10-15 secs of music at what must be 130dB. We haven't been able to use the garden, open the doors or windows, and can only watch the TV by turning the volume up. Samples of the music in use include:
- Someone out: "Howzat" by Sherbet (tres originale) or "Another one bites the dust"
- Walking back to the pavilion: "Tragedy", Bee Gees
- Scoring a run: "Boom Boom Boom Boom", Vengaboys
And they repeat this EVERY SINGLE FKING TIME something happens on the pitch. And whilst I appreciate that in a game of cricket, that's only every 3 or 4 minutes, it's been constant all afternoon.
Aside from the fact that after 6.5 hours and counting of this, I'm wound tighter than an over-wound clock spring and fit to murder someone (physical build and facial hair aside, I genuinely don't trust myself to go round there just now) this seems to be the most utterly bizarre thing for a cricket club to do. I'm thinking gentlemen, pipes, cucumber sandwiches, and instead I've got a field full of tnucs who are probably planning a "fkin large night out" at Chicago Rock after the match.
So tell me: do I live (and not for much longer) next to the most chav-invested poxy low-life cricket club in the world, or am I completely out of touch and this is now considered normal practice in the world of leather and willow?
Edited by CAPP0 on Monday 27th August 21:56
We're going to canvass a few of the neighbours tomorrow. We've heard that it was a "fund raising" event. There was no advance notice or warning at all, and it leaves us wondering just when the next one will be. Had we, say, invited half a dozen friends over for a BH BBQ in the garden, it would have been entirely ruined; we would have had to abandon it. There was no way you could speak to each other, let alone hold a conversation, at the volumes they were broadcasting. PRS is a good point actually.
ds.See, I would be as likely as you two to post something similar if, say, someone complained about Brands Hatch running motor races.
But in your haste to be uber-PH, you haven't read the OP properly. We're perfectly happy living next to a cricket club. What rankles is the substitution of "a game of cricket" with some feeble, noisy, unending substitute for a CIU beano. An 8-hour one, during which your garden and the rear 50% of your house become unusable. Without any forewarning. Try that, and report back....
But in your haste to be uber-PH, you haven't read the OP properly. We're perfectly happy living next to a cricket club. What rankles is the substitution of "a game of cricket" with some feeble, noisy, unending substitute for a CIU beano. An 8-hour one, during which your garden and the rear 50% of your house become unusable. Without any forewarning. Try that, and report back....
This would have been an annual 6-a-side competition or similar. It will most likely happen every year on the same BH Monday. The music and announcing stuff has come from the world of T20 cricket. Don't worry, the cricket season ends soon. If you're lucky the council will sell off the cricket pitch and turn it into affordable housing in the close season.
This reminds me of the guy from about a week ago who was complaining that despite backing onto farmland which he enjoyed for 364.5 days a year, the farmer had the audacity to harvest his crops the other day and his tractor woke him up.
This reminds me of the guy from about a week ago who was complaining that despite backing onto farmland which he enjoyed for 364.5 days a year, the farmer had the audacity to harvest his crops the other day and his tractor woke him up.
The Jolly Todger said:
This reminds me of the guy from about a week ago who was complaining that despite backing onto farmland which he enjoyed for 364.5 days a year, the farmer had the audacity to harvest his crops the other day and his tractor woke him up.
Once again - read the OP. I wasn't registering a PH complaint but asking if anyone knew WTF was going on, since to a non-cricketer like me, it seems an utterly bizarre corruption of what is generally recognised by the non-cricket fraternity as what passes for normal.CAPP0 said:
The Jolly Todger said:
This reminds me of the guy from about a week ago who was complaining that despite backing onto farmland which he enjoyed for 364.5 days a year, the farmer had the audacity to harvest his crops the other day and his tractor woke him up.
Once again - read the OP. I wasn't registering a PH complaint but asking if anyone knew WTF was going on, since to a non-cricketer like me, it seems an utterly bizarre corruption of what is generally recognised by the non-cricket fraternity as what passes for normal.it wasn't a complaint at all
a similar thing has happened in motorsport, where people have bought houses at a reduced rate ddue top them being next to a race circuit which most in this country have been there for around 50 years or so without issue only to then complain about the noise - hence silly noise limits in some areas - Croft being the main one I can remember....
Hugo a Gogo said:
CAPP0 said:
The Jolly Todger said:
This reminds me of the guy from about a week ago who was complaining that despite backing onto farmland which he enjoyed for 364.5 days a year, the farmer had the audacity to harvest his crops the other day and his tractor woke him up.
Once again - read the OP. I wasn't registering a PH complaint but asking if anyone knew WTF was going on, since to a non-cricketer like me, it seems an utterly bizarre corruption of what is generally recognised by the non-cricket fraternity as what passes for normal.it wasn't a complaint at all
As for WTF was going on, like I said, it would have been a six-a-side or similar. Google the name of the cricket team and they will most likely have a website advertising it.
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