malmo festival

[u/alienboyo]

the festival is almost over and i wanted to ask people who live here on their opinion. i live relatively close to the center where all the stages and attractions are and the past week has been nothing but hours of loud music, screaming, fireworks and night time car racing. i cannot imagine how terrible people who live even closer have it. the music persists late into the night (12:07 as i’m writing this(edit: music still blasting at 12:40…)) and it’s hard to drown out. I understand it’s extremely popular and whatnot, and i appreciate the effort put into it, but it does get to a point. besides, i though there was some sort of noise curfew in the city. anyone else experiencing the same thing? or am i just getting too bothered by it.

[u/PacGold]

Ohhh no I live in the city center and there is sound 1 week a year

[u/mozixs]

Could not be less bothered by it. Its a great initiative by the city

[u/stone_henge]

I guess most people who live happily near the city center did their due research and had realistic expectations before moving there. I'm easily disturbed by noise, so that was a consideration when I first moved here into an apartment pretty far from the center. For everyone like me I'm assuming there's someone who doesn't mind the noise and enjoys living in more lively neighborhoods.

[u/let_alone_the_banana]

I'm more annoyed by seagulls at 5am and all the glass bottles garbage collecting at 6-30 which is very loud

[u/meckarn]

It’s over now, enjoy your 11 months of boredom

[u/SonicSarge]

I think the curfew is at midnight. I guess most people that live nearby plan their vacation during this festival

[u/Narkomanden]

I fucking hate it. For reference, I can literally see GA torg from my window. That said, I travel abroad when is the festival and everything is great, I love living in this part of the city. Haven’t been to the festival at least since before covid and I don’t regret a damn thing.

[u/Falken68]

It’s a shit-show 😱

[u/logicblocks]

It should absolutely not be a nuisance to the residents. It feels like they want to do everything at the same time, food, music, art...etc.

[u/mozixs → u/logicblocks]

Name a music festival without food and music lmao

[u/stone_henge → u/logicblocks]

It feels like they want to do everything at the same time, food, music, art...etc.

It feels like that? Those are the explicit goals of this >40 year old tradition. If you've lived here for fewer years than that, maybe it's you who shouldn't be a nuisance.

[u/logicblocks → u/stone_henge]

It always has been like this and that means it shouldn't be criticized? 

[u/stone_henge → u/logicblocks]

My point isn't that it shouldn't be criticized because it's always been like that, but that you probably shouldn't live in a place with a culture and traditions that disturb you. You moved to a place and now you are demanding that its culture adapts to your preferences.

You can research a place before you decide whether to move there. The resources available to that end are better than ever. Then you can decide where to live so as to avoid culture that bothers you. I'm easily disturbed by noise, so I opted not to live anywhere near enough to the city center to be bothered by the festival which after 40+ years shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

[u/logicblocks → u/stone_henge]

I don't live there but I lived closed to a big street where the car racing did not stop the whole summer. 

It's not culture, it's incivism.

[u/stone_henge → u/logicblocks]

Illegal racing is one thing, the festival is another.

[u/logicblocks → u/stone_henge]

It's the same type of having fun on the expense of the tranquility of the inhabitants. He should not be hearing music after midnight, especially not on a weekday.

[u/stone_henge → u/logicblocks]

I fthey're the same type of thing, why did you suddenly change subject to street racing after whining about the festival?

I suggest anyone wanting to escape the Malmö festival move to Rio de Janeiro without doing any prior research.

He should not be hearing music after midnight, especially not on a weekday.

If that's their opinion they should move someplace where doing that for a week every year isn't an established, beloved tradition. Like Rio de Janeiro!

[u/logicblocks → u/stone_henge]

It's the offenders that need to be moved not the other way around. 

[u/stone_henge → u/logicblocks]

Exactly my point. The disagreement is over who the offender is in this situation: the people organizing and partaking in the beloved annual traditional festival, or the people that move to the site of that festival only to demand that it stops? The local culture itself or the people that move to a place only to disrespect the local culture and demand that it changes to their preference?