Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Biffy Clyro at Finsbury Park tonight
I really feel for the residents living around Finsbury Park. We're miles away on Sydney Road near Turnpike Lane and we can hear the band's set really clearly – it sounds much louder than gigs normally are.
How loud is it if you live closer?!
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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THE residents who—as always—suffer most from Haringey Council's Major Events conduct are those in Brownswood Ward, Hackney.
At 6 PM last evening, a resident in Seven Sisters Road wrote (below) to the promoter Festival Republic and to Hackney Licensing and also copied in many others, including Hackney Councillors, David Lammy MP and The Friends of Finsbury Park.
Hackney Council are of course not responsible for Haringey Council's selfish Event promotion. Haringey do not care and have never cared. Haringey Council and their Events Team feel little enough responsibility to residents in this Borough and still less to residents in Hackney Borough.
Since Haringey's Major Events Policy in Finsbury Park there have been independent reports of building shaking along Seven Sisters Road over many years.
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Hi,
I’m a resident of [number supplied] Seven Sisters Road. You obviously don’t care but my building is swaying again - I have video proof. I’m scared. It’s dangerous.
I will see you at tomorrow’s meeting. Please be prepared to give me the contacts of people who were in charge of licensing instead of the generic email I use here.
I’d love to see Festival Republic go bankrupt as soon as possible.
Kind Regards,
[name supplied]
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson
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Hackney and Islington both have councillors on the Finsbury Park Events stakeholders group. Their names and the wards they represent are in the minutes of this meeting.
https://haringey.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2025-11/20-october-2025...
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Permalink Reply by Jules
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I live on Seymour and quite enjoyed listening to the music in my garden. Live music brings joy. I've spoken to friends on Seven Sisters Road, opposite the park and they say it is extremely loud in their flat, but they acknowledge that it is only for a weekend here and there over the summer so they are happy to put up with it as the festival goes are having a great time. The only thing they object to is people using their entrance as a toilet
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Permalink Reply by KP
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The problem is most years it's not just for one weekend. If it was just one or even 2 weekends I wouldn't mind. My biggest problems isn't actually the music its the fact the park has those awful barriers everywhere. It stops so many of us enjoying the park in the summer, when we most want to be there. The barriers go up way in advance. A lot of us don't have gardens so the park is the only place we get to enjoy outdoor space.
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27-30% of the park is cordoned off for the music festivals. You still have 2/3 of the park to enjoy.
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Permalink Reply by Park
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When you consider the areas circled in red which are not accessible to the general public it is far over 27% of the park that can't be used.
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Permalink Reply by michaela rourke
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Same moaning every year - you'll get over it. It's a few days, thousands of people enjoy it, it brings in much needed income to pay for the park you enjoy all year - and can still use most of. London is full of amazing live music at the moment - if you don't want to make the most of it please don't spoilt it for the people who do.
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The objection has never been to concerts.
The objection has always been to Events that are too big, in a public park.
Surely it's possible to grasp this distinction?
Even with the cancellation of Wireless, the occupations are never just "a few days". Claiming that it's just a few days ignores the build-up of more than a week and then the many days of knock-down.
Thousands of people enjoy concerts at purpose-built venues, elsewhere.
Thousands of people enjoy the park as a park.
The often-quoted figure of 27% occupation is entirely misleading. Of the area of the park that is usable by the public, the promoters take about half.
The council's Major Events policy is a political choice.
As for the "much needed income to pay for the park", some of it goes on the salaries of the council's Events Team— which would not otherwise be needed—some of it is spent* on damage repair caused by the council's very hire policy itself, but much or most of it appears to be siphoned off elsewhere and not spent for the benefit of Finsbury Park.
Our park is steadily being run down.
The council has been chronically dishonest about many aspects of their Event hires, especially the finances.
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*Repairs, if made are normally effected a few weeks before the next year's "Events Season". i.e. 10 or 11 months later.
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It's never "just a few days" that's the point. The barriers are up for most of the Summer which stops those of us who live locally being able to make the most of the park in the Summer. I don't object to live music just the way the concert organisers take over and the mess they leave behind
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Just shut the power down. Enough is enough. They foist this garbage on us every year and rob us of our ability to enjoy a key green space and a quiet summer. If they want a loud festival have it somewhere suitable outside the city where it doesn't impose on everyone else.
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