Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
How did the Wireless concert in Finsbury Park affect you?
Today (Sunday) was the first of four Wireless festivals/concerts in Finsbury Park. I'm surprised there are no posts about it. Did it affect you? Any feedback (or photos) is being collated by the Friends of Finsbury Park.
Tags for Forum Posts: finsbury park, finsbury park events, noise, wireless festival
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Andy, I don't think it's fair to be dismissive of those who find these events intrusive and annoying. I could hear it and it didn't bother me that much (the helicopters are making more of a racket up where Ilive) but I can understand the feelings of those who do get bothered by it and those who are in the firing line of the noise and crowds.
The park is a public amenity and for many who live in the area its their only access to an outside space. Even in the parts of the park that are open it's as loud as being in the venue itself.
I think that there is also the issue of how long these events are going on for. One day last weekend and three this. Far longer than an Arsenal home game.
I fully accept that events like these are fun for those who have decided to attend but surely you have to accept it may not be any fun at all for those who have no choice but to hear.
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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Andy H whilst I admire your courage for coming out so publicly as Jessie J fan I don't really get your myopic approach to this argument. You, and in fairness a few others, seem to think people are only concerned about the noise. But it’s not just about the 'Bang bang' (do you see what i did there), I think many people have lot of different gripes.
While I think the music in the main is something I would play in game of pass the parcel at my boys birthday party, and though I was half expecting the Tweenies to do a live PA I appreciate grown-ups might also like the music.
But for me it’s definitely not the loud music, I can deal with that. I live next to the goblin line and get the daily racket of incredibly noisy and heavy freight trains that go past our house and make the whole building shake to its foundations. They actually stop at a signal outside my house, engines running belching thick black smoke into the air like.... "Thunder". Honestly, for me it isn't the loud music.
It’s not the outsiders either. In 1988 - 92 I was lucky enough to spend my late teens and early adulthood driving about country lanes in my mates blacked out clapped out VW polo heading to illegal raves to spend the next 17 hours jumping up and down to some the finest Acidhouse music known to humankind. Thankfully nothing like the homogenised, laminate house of David Guetta and Avichii. So it would be pure hypocrisy of me to dislike the people coming to ‘our park’. Admittedly I don’t like the fact the council forgot to put up parking restrictions on our street, but I have nothing against non-local folk using our local park. No sireeeeee.
My gripe is with the LiveNation contractor speeding well over the 10MPH speed limit who almost wiped out my son and I at 7.45 am on our way to school. Who, considering we were in the middle of the road at the time, rather than kindly stop and allow us to cross, chose to speed up and serve past us at well over 30MPH narrowly missing us then screech to a stop and call us or perhaps just me ( maybe he was seeing double), ‘Wankers’ (that’s not a Jessie J song) when I asked him to slow down.
I am also pissed off with huge amounts of cars, vans, coaches and lorries going well over the speed limit up and down the inner road for 3 effing weeks, seemingly without any care for the people using it.
I am really annoyed that there were no crossing marshals put in place. Particularly when after the near miss I had to have meeting with the Health and Safety manager who said he would look into doing just that.
For the record I am fully up for the park being used to hold concerts and generating revenue for this borough. But, considering the sheer amount of money made by LiveNation with no doubt a significant amount invested on the health and safety of their customers, much, much more needs to be done to ensure the health and safety of those using the park too.
By the way, this morning as I was walking my boy to school we say a huge lorry reverse into 8ft high sign, knocking it onto the pavement and narrowly missing 4 security guards sitting in a stationary electric buggy who should/could have been directing the driver. We were directly opposite and had chosen to walk on the other side of the road because it felt a bit safer.
Andy and the others who think there is a minority of curtain twitchers and killjoys who are just complaining about the noise. It is really important to understand that my son and many other children walk through this section of park every day to go to school and nursery. As young children, and no matter how many times us parents and carers try to instil a sense of road safety into their naive little minds, they have become accustomed to the normal flow of traffic pre-Wireless. So when they‘re transfixed watching an articulated lorry reversing with all its beep, beep, beep. Or the big yellow tractor with its massive wheels carrying all sorts of shiny gubbins in their scoops, going beep, beep,beep (its sounding like one of the songs I used to dance to!), spare a thought, why don’t you, for the fact they might not be concentrating their little minds on the speeding black Volvo bombing down a normally quite road at well over limit and so fast that it has to swerve out of the way because it can’t stop in time. Andy and co, kids possess very little knowledge of quite how dangerous the road has become. It’s a through route to many schools and nurseries whilst the children’s play area is right next to the festival, so children are obviously using this stretch of road on a daily basis.
Therefore and with all this in mind, on behalf of the many parents I have spoken to, the staff and pupils of Stroud Green School, the toddlers and staff of Rainbow Nursery and myself, I respectfully ask you to stick your incredibly hillhairyarse link to earplugs where the sun don’t shine. I’m happy to chip in you want.
Peace X
How long before the admins edit this?...
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Permalink Reply by Junior Bennett on
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Wow...I wonder who is going to read all of that!
Anyone got cliff notes?
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Good point, just read the last paragraph.
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Permalink Reply by Norah Borough on
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Calm down. He only suggested ear plugs!
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Norah, I'm calm. A lot calmer after knocking out that post. He was being a wind up merchant. It's quite sad to be honest.
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It looks like he was just teasing. I'm not sure that chiding people who have a different opinion on the matter is helpful. While I genuinely feel for all those who have been and still are affected by Wireless, it's everyone's park and we will all experience it differently. I hope all of these complaints are put forward to the proper organisations and authorities and that next year's event will ensure safety and quality of life for everybody.
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You read my post about my son who was almost run down, and your response was "calm down" . Zero empathy but a lot of belittling or is it just teasing? So it's OK to tease but not to chide. That stinks of contradiction and double standards to me. Please don't cast Andy as a victim in this he's been deliberately trying to aggravate people from the outset.
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I've stated that I have sympathy and I'm not intending to belittle anyone nor am I casting anyone as anything, just being reasonable. You do seem very angry, perhaps at the wrong people. Hope you manage to get your complaints to the right people and get some resolve or at least a better outcome next year. Take care.
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Permalink Reply by Madeline on
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I agree wholeheartedly. My dog is the same, she doesn't understand why her once safe(ish) wandering area is now quite deadly.
My husband is partially sighted and no amount of 'beep beep beep' tells him where or how near any danger is. He doesn't carry a white stick so the drivers aren't aware of his problem. But that shouldn't matter. The point is it's not just his problem (white stick or not), it's not just because he can't see, the park is a slow zone, for everybody. Those drivers shouldn't be speeding like that. They have no respect for anybody else outside their job. They have no respect for the bylaws, the people, the infrastructure nor the flora and fauna. I think I saw somewhere where the security took exception to photographs being taken even outside the event area and stated that "they owned the park whilst this was going on". And it seems that they do.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Ben, clearly something has lit your bonfire! Did you ever consider the more local South Harringay schools with a leisurely stroll up the Passage?
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Honestly Matt, what is point of you posting that?
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