Stafford Lancers

[gota quid]

I've lived near the RAF, married an airforce man, moved to a harrier base, helicopter base, red arrows base, now that was noisey and you want to complain about a brass band. I'm now back in stafford, get the helicopters from the camp and the hospital now. The strange thing is, because I never let it bother me I don't hear it. This band has just won a prestigious award. Read stafford post page 4. As Staffordians we should be encouraging them and be proud of them, not trying to pass them from pillar to post. Do you burst kids balls when they land in your garden too??

skill point,

thank you i am a little crap with words you have summed up what i have been trying to say all day

 

[Mrs M]

That's you and got a quid that I have granted my first Stafford Points to. Yay Stafford Lancers.

 

[gon2seed]

It's a really difficult one, but lets not get carried away that this is a melodic, Brighouse and Rastrick affair. When they used to practice at Rowley Park they were at the bottom of my garden. They practice the same tune over, and over, and they play the sort of instruments that marching bands play, don't ask me what they are, but they aren't normal brass trumpets, trombones, etc'. It goes right through you!

I did not complain however. I turned the telly/radio up, and reasoned that if my sprogs were at it, I'd want them to have somewhere to play.

As I said it's not an easy one, and for once I am going to sit firmly on the fence!

 

[Doctor]

I live opposite the ambulance station and for a while my bedroom was at the front of the house - when they stick there sirens on you jump out of your skin - anytime from about 6:30am to 11:00pm - and with a hangover it can be even worse but I knew it ws there when I moved, valuable service etc. So OK. Now they've stuck a pedestrian crossing right outside my door and the beeb beeb beeb is exactly the same as my alarm clock of many many years that I have tuned into. The crossing starts at 7am and invariable woke me up when I was trying for a weekend lie in. I've had to move to the back of the house to sleep. Really don't know why it has to be so loud - I got double glazing and sound insulation on the walls but it still got through!

Edit:

Forgot to say I moved out of the back bedroom 'cos next door's dog was out all night barking and keeping me awake - at least the traffic noise was more of a consistent background hum. But the dog hass gone Yeah! I now have lovely peaceful sleep except on Sunday night when a cat got too close to the swallows nest and they made a right racket.

 

[badger with prey]

I feel I have to contribute to this. I payed a visit to an old friend of mine this Sunday who happens to live on Parkside. Bear in mind this is a Sunday afternoon in for the first time in, what seems like weeks, the sun had actually broke through. (It was July the first after all). After turning off my car stereo on arrival at my chums beautiful house the unmistakeable rasping of snare drums sliced through the air like an airbourne slicing thing of some description. Followed immediately by a constant thump thump thump thump typical of the finest thumping things across the length and breadth of the land. Once inside the double glazing did it's job admirably. But being a scum of the earth smoker I had to seek the refuge of the garden for my nicotine fix. Upon opening the patio doors the rat tat tat and boom boom boom hits you straight in the face. I asked my friends (pensioners) if this happens often? They told me Saturdays Sundays, and now sometimes Thursdays. I have read many of the views on this topic and have to agree many make valid points. Sure this is greatthat they're doing something useful with their time. Fully appreciate that and applaud the fact they're are very successful. Well done. However I have to agree with "Ant" that there must be somewhere else to practise? The showgrounds sound ideal. The Lancers may sound great for 15 mins at close range, over a distance the music scrambes and distorts with echoes and all we can hear from my pensioner friends back garden is thump thump thump, rattle, rattle, rattle. I know I wouldn't like it.

 

[Mrs M]

http://icstafford.icnetwork.co.uk/news/localnews/tm_headline=under-fire-band-wins-competition-%26method=full%26objectid=19368830%26siteid=87875-name_page.html

If you read the above article in the Stafford Post it says that the council monitored the noise levels and they were within the legal range. Just a bunch of fuddy duddies I think having a whinge because of nothing else better to do. No better than that guy Mr Roper who took alton towers to court over the noise levels from the Firework displays. Bah humbug!! If they didn't wind themselves up about it so much they wouldn't even notice it. I bet they wake up on Sunday morning and it's the first thing they think about. Chill out.

 

[Doctor]

It becomes the first thing you think about when you know it's going to happen which just makes it worse. It's like one of those car alarms going off at night that stops and then starts again. When it's off all you think about is whether and when it's going to start again.

 

[MISS T]

Update in last nights E&S:

Stafford's MP has asked MoD if local marching band can rehearse at the military base due to complaints from local residents.
David Kidney MP said it was " a pity " that defense Estates had recently concluded that the Lancers could not use the site. " These youngsters, some of whom have been working with Stafford Lancers for more than 12 years, might otherwise have no activities to engage in during their leisure time, and some might come from deprived backgrounds, but in Stafford Lancers they learn new skills " .
Mr Kidney was addressing armed forces ministers in a parliamentary debate on the future of the MoD Stafford.

 

[Sir BoD]

I've lived near the RAF, married an airforce man, moved to a harrier base, helicopter base, red arrows base, now that was noisey and you want to complain about a brass band. I'm now back in stafford, get the helicopters from the camp and the hospital now. The strange thing is, because I never let it bother me I don't hear it. This band has just won a prestigious award. Read stafford post page 4. As Staffordians we should be encouraging them and be proud of them, not trying to pass them from pillar to post. Do you burst kids balls when they land in your garden too??

See that's the difference - by choice, you moved to the noise, not the other way round. If you can put up with jets and planes, then fair enough, but you have to respect that other people have different tolerant levels and that they never asked to be exposed to this. I hate making comparisons, but if these were groups parked up outside other people's homes playing their car stereos, they would be instantly complained about and probably moved on by the police, and quite rightly.

It is plainly obvious that it is upsetting many people and not just one individual, and I think that this situation can be avoided quite easily by moving them away from highly populated built up areas.

 

[FooFighter]

Nimby

 

[MISS T]

Nimby

I had to check this in the dictionary, so I'll use it tomorrow three times, that's the 'learn a new word' rule game, I pay with myself.

I'm very lonely.

 

[db]

I'm very lonely.

sweet liquor eases the pain

 

[MISS T]

I'm very lonely.

sweet liquor eases the pain

I'm onto it.

 

[Kinmont]

Does it?

 

[anomalyaos]

Would you prefer that they where out mugging old people, stabbling each other, or other sensational daily mail headlines?

we moan and bitch about everybody but we dont stop and think about what these young people are gaining from there music lessons and what they would be up to if they did not have this club to go too.

A radical solution to this is perhaps go out instead of sitting in your house in july with your windows shut

not trying to be mean or anything but if they r sad enough to play in stafford lancers i doubt they'd be mugging ppl if they couldn't go

 

[Mrs M]

Would you prefer that they where out mugging old people, stabbling each other, or other sensational daily mail headlines?

we moan and bitch about everybody but we dont stop and think about what these young people are gaining from there music lessons and what they would be up to if they did not have this club to go too.

A radical solution to this is perhaps go out instead of sitting in your house in july with your windows shut

not trying to be mean or anything but if they r sad enough to play in stafford lancers i doubt they'd be mugging ppl if they couldn't go

I don't think you can say that. At the moment they have their time occupied and enjoying it, even though it may not be everybody's choice of hobby. If they didn't use up this time doing this, given a few weeks they maybe hanging around doing nothing. They could meet the wrong crowd, the sort that may think the're a bunch of numpties for wanting to go around 'banging a drum'(even though they'd never tried it) and take the p**s. This would then make them feel stupid for ever wanting to do anything like this in the first place. You know how peer pressure works. Who knows which direction their life would go.