Tell him you don’t mind as long as you get an invite or advance notice of the party…[wait till he is straight again before approaching him and discussing this and be calm when you do it :wink:]

See what he says about it and take it from there.

From personal experience of being the source of the noise rather than the victim I used to go and ring the doorbell/knock on the door and warn anyone I thought would be affected of the party – usually I invited them all to join us and we only did it a few times a year. Other times we did them in other places and they did the same with their neighbours – we never had a problem because our neighbours [or whoevers] always knew we would turn it down if asked to and usually joined us :bounce_fl:bounce_fl:bounce_fl

nah, there should still be that idea of respect for the wider community

if a stack is loud enough it can be heard outside the “target area” by people who don’t want to hear it its too loud IMO…

warehouse parties are sometimes less problematic if people pick the right sort of warehouse; even then crews must be very careful as many of the older manufacturing units which have closed down were built quite near to housing areas to minimise travel costs for the workforce.

people get carried away and take the piss and think they have gotten away with it (often because there weren’t enough cops to stop a party) – so they do it again and again; then next time riot cops turn up and close the thing down by force and/or rigs get confiscated… TBH in the early 2000s there was a boom in large raves which pissed off a lot of locals to the point the laws were tightened up again…

OTOH I’ve heard of big raves in certain areas where I also know non-raving locals and they haven’t even realised anything had happened in their own neighbourhood that weekend!

Thats the best way IMO of going about it….

As for the “age” issues I don’t think its a real problem – I’m in my thirties and have a circle of friends from their mid teens to their fifties and beyond all of whom who go raving.. Some people also look way younger than they actually are, some of those “teenagers” could be our sort of age…

it might be worth a quiet word with him again pointing out that you are or were a raver as well (if he isn’t aware already) and unless you two are the only houses in the street, if you can hear the noise, others can who may be less sympathetic.

if he keeps up with it in most areas it will end up with other neighbours complaining formally to the authorities and the risk of his house being turned over – by both cops and environmental health.

And if he is letting his younger friends use the place to take drugs as well or there is the slightest suspicion he may be “dealing” (and sharing your personal stash with someone is supplying) then he could be in really big trouble – all for making a bit of noise….

Take him on face value and treat him as though he were a sensible human being.

I have found [over many years and many encounters] that going in with no expectations of conflict and treating others [some of whom no one else will speak to] as though they were straight up nice guys with total honesty and civility has produced results others were dumbfounded by.

There is no point in going in expecting aggro – it is a self fulfilling prophecy [lets be honest here – how would you react if someone did it to you? :groucho: ]

Having exhausted all reasonable avenues of asking him nicely I think you have every right to be pissed off as he continues to be inconsiderate :groucho:

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