Petition to stop Govt. forcing venues to have noise cut-offs

[Mouse]

Signed with ultimate pleasure. The music scene in this country is already in a complicated state without some stupid bugger in a tall building who has never had any life experience in all it's days ruining something so marvelous and wonderful. It's fecking ridiculous!

45,713 signatures now. Why can't the Government focus on real problems in this country, like knife crime or something that actually hurts people?  :evil: Sort that out first!

[tomskerous]

Assuming knife crime is a real problem, rather than something that helps sell more papers that is...

(Call me a cynical sausage. Dodie, any likeminded thoughts here? Should we mention MMR? :-) )

[LivingForever]

Can I ask a dumb question? Do venues already have some kind of noise restriction in place, as in - making sure that the level of volume cannot be so high as to permanently damage hearing?

I always tend to assume they do and therefore think my hearing isn't at risk but that may be naive.

[Philadelphia]

Can I ask a dumb question? Do venues already have some kind of noise restriction in place, as in - making sure that the level of volume cannot be so high as to permanently damage hearing?

I always tend to assume they do and therefore think my hearing isn't at risk but that may be naive.

Not knowing anything of the current rules, I'm sure there's a restriction of some sort, but whatever that restriction is it's definitely not something that is guaranteed to be "safe". You'd be surprised at how little it takes to permanently damage hearing. While actual loss of hearing might require very loud music - not that I'm certain that this is the case - tinnitus (of various degrees) definitely does not.

[Pedro]

Two random synapse triggers on this topic....

At Summer's End '07 at The Robin, Pain Of Salvation's sound guy propped his own decibel meter wotsit on top of the desk....I couldn't tell if he was keeping the level down or making sure it kept up!!

The sports hall that Miss Pedro used to play Basketball in had some "traffic lights" built into the wall at either end which were noise triggered  - with a good-sized crowd in, the red occasionally lit up but the power always stayed on!

[johninblack]

Can I ask a dumb question? Do venues already have some kind of noise restriction in place, as in - making sure that the level of volume cannot be so high as to permanently damage hearing?

I always tend to assume they do and therefore think my hearing isn't at risk but that may be naive.

I would guess that would be covered by Health and Safety. An employer has a "Duty of Care" to employees and visitors to their premises not to endanger them in any way. Our local sells earplugs, probably something all venues should do.

[Big Black Shed]

61,465.

Just signed.

Ludicrous.

[Big Black Shed]

Assuming knife crime is a real problem, rather than something that helps sell more papers that is...

(Call me a cynical sausage. Dodie, any likeminded thoughts here? Should we mention MMR? :-) )

You cynical sausage. There.