Is the noise from the main stages really that bad for surrounding houses? In my mind the festival is quite isolated. I can imagine people would hear it, but would it cause a nuisance? Especially in the afternoon/evening because there aren't any normal day to day sound limits for that time of day. I mean, someone can fire up a pneumatic drill outside your house at that time.
Or is it really bad for the villagers? I really don't know.
There's wriggle room to change things, but not to the extent that'd be necessary to run music on a main stage.
Likewise the licence does get updated, but something as substantial as that would be difficult enough to agree that they're unlikely to even try.
There's a whole heap of considerations - there's a list of exactly when the various stages and areas are allowed to operate, how big each individual sound system is allowed to be, and separate to that there's also very strict volume limits defined for each of the off-site monitoring points. So for example running the Pyramid on a Thursday would (in normal weather conditions) cause them to massively exceed the Thursday evening off-site noise limits even if you turned off every other sound system on site.
The most they can realistically do is get individual permission for the special things, like getting permission to run The Park last year so Michael could do his turn - but that was for a limited time, in the afternoon, and I suspect it was reduced volume levels. It's still a long way off running a proper band.
Same! I have been off work with nothing going on while also feeling rubbish with a bad cold and it really would have been the best distraction 🥺 Oh well, back to work tomorrow (still with cold)
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