Piped music in restaurants, bars and shops.

To anyone hoping to watch that concert - There seems to be a problem with the sound coming over gthe internet. Contacted them and they can hear it fine locally, but not on the net. They are trying to trace what is wrong and fix it. They only have half an hour until it starts - the orchestra are all there and are rehearsing - looks very good but zilch sound.

Yesterday at the hospital, while getting replastered (!) I was nearly driven insane by the inanities blaring from the local radio station in the plaster room - dreadful muzac and ungrammatical intros that my OCD OH insisted on correcting loudly - very embarrassing!

Hate it. The only true aversion/allergy I have is synthesized/americanized Christmas music in shopping centres. It really freaks me out and I have to leave.

Often it's the staff who insist on the music. i'm bothered by the very noisy coffee machines which drown all conversation and often produces rubbish coffee.

A columnist in the Indie has been complaining about music in restaurants today. I hate noisy environments, listen to the radio a lot but with the sound quite low. If I go into a shop, restaurant or pub with noisy music i walk staright out again.

When I and a friend had lunch at the Treehouse at Alnwick Castle last week,, the most dreadful music was pounding out. If it had been something from Harry Potter or Babes in the Wood which would have fitted the theme of the place, or better still some quiet classical stuff, then I wouldn't have minded. I think it was for the benefit of the staff, not the customers. I made this point when leaving and it was accepted politely and I was told that 'they' (?management/Duchess of Northumberland??) would be told of the complaint. Don't suppose it will make any difference, but I tried

Ah! Musicians have now left. Replaced by either a small lunchtime service or some of the choir having a little rehearsal. I wish the sound were on, I can't make out what is happening.

What may be a grand piano has arrived.

Have bookmarked that, ele

This one not piped but live - concert tonight on webcam from Glasgow University chapel, It is the Chapel Choir and GU Pro Musica Orchestra performing St Luke Magnificat. DGS1 is playing in the orchestra.

Link is www.chapelchoir.org/live-webcam.html It starts at 6pm and goes on until nine, but I think the first bit may be the dress rehearsal - worth watching anyway as it is as good as the real thing. A couple of people in there now (11.30 am) practicing on violin and cello but sound appears to be off - I assume they are part of the orchestra getting in a bit more practice. Dress rehearsal may be this afternoon - at the last concert it was.

I don't object to music as long as it is not intrusive - so many times I have met friends for lunch or coffee only to be driven back onto the street because it was impossible to have a conversation. We once booked a table at a gastro pub for lunch, when we arrived there was very loud music being pumped into the eating area, we asked for it to be turned down but the bar person said he had no control over it (!), so we told him we wouldn't require the table and left - ended up in a little cafe which was quiet but didn't have the menu we had all been looking forward to.

Oh how I hate that piped music too. Loud music in restaurants too, not easy to have a conversation or even good for the digestion.

Bring back the pianist tinkling the ivories as we sip tea and eat petits fours

Love the vision!

I have been known to leave a shop, letting them know just why.

Much worse than that, jeni.

Or the chicken song?

Oh dear! Mental vision of juggling yogurts!

My local supermarket plays the same Samba music that I dance keep fit to - it's worrying - it gives me a crisis of behaviour - shop/dance/buy yoghurt/wave my arms around/weigh apples/knees bend/pick up biscuits/hop and wiggle/ bag of onions... ..........you get the picture.....

I have actually disconnected the speaker in a lift... and at a pub in Datchet, one of the regulars brought in a sharpened sixpence, and shoved it through the cable to the speaker over his favourite seat - once he'd teased the dried paint back over the gap, it was invisble - and peace reigned!

You might be interested in this campaign - www.pipedown.info/

If I can detect where the controls are, I've been known to turn it down myself, given half a chance.

Very inconsiderate of people with a hearing problem
Or people trying to think. Or hold a conversation.
I often ask for it to be turned down in cafes etc.

Oh yes! I'm afraid so

jeni Noooooooo

It won't be long now before the supermarkets merrily blast out ' here it is merry Christmas, every bodies having fun'

Bags Johann Sebastian Heinz?

I hate Gatwick's greatest hits. On the other hand Another one bites the dust is just right when I am swimming. It also makes me more assertive when there is a man doing splashy macho crawl as I trundle up and down in my ponderous middle-aged lady's breaststroke.