Piped music in restaurants, bars and shops.

hi soop read your message,,,yes i agree i dont mind music in a place,,,but come on,,,make it softer and more pleasant,.........we went to spain a few weeks ago,,,,around the pool was horrific with the loud speakers,,,,boom boom boom with heavy metal music,,,,awfull,,,,,,,even one young girl comentated said it was too loud, perhaps we are getting old, .......

angie Nah!

It wouldn't be so bad if it was actually background music, but it rarely is. Wouldn't object to the Beandenburg concertos and stuff like that, but that rarely is either

The music they play in supermarkets usually sounds like some poor woman wailing at being tortured. Why do they think that will encourage us to spend more? It makes me hurry out.

Whoops! Brandenburg.

Who wrote the Beandenburg Concertos then?

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.

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

jeni Noooooooo

Oh yes! I'm afraid so

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.

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

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

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!

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.....

Oh dear! Mental vision of juggling yogurts!

Or the chicken song?

Much worse than that, jeni.

Love the vision!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Have bookmarked that, ele

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.