Don’t be so childish
No you are right. I guess where I’m coming from is I’d rather have a noisy party once a year, than say a neighbour who plays a piano for hours each day or music every night.
Ideally we would have local services that deal with this kind of stuff. Unfortunately this is London. There are no local services anymore. Hell, the police don’t even bother investigating most of the crimes that happen. So my attitude is just deal with it for a night and try to forget about it.
There will always be selfish people out there.
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This only works if only one person is entitled to have a yearly loud party.
It is better to ask how many households in your vicinity would disturb your weekend if they had a party. Then, ask how many people live in each of those properties. Times those numbers together to reach parties per year.
There are only 52 weekends in a year so you wouldn’t have many quiet weekends, but hey, who has a garden rave in the wet? 26 weekends left when you can enjoy being outside in the sun. A quiet weekend would be a rarity.
If someone believes they have the right to disturb their neighbours because they only have one party per year then they are the definition of selfishness.
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How about if we are all entitled, but have to do it on a specific date. National Loud Party Day.
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How Swiss.
It would make sense if we held National Loud Party Day 
when there was a bank holiday the following day. How about 31st December? We can probably let everyone carry on until midnight if everyone is synchronised.
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It wasnt going on all night it stop at 11pm
Agreed yours stopped at 11 - thank you. Three weeks later it is now 00.30 and there is loud music coming from a similar (although I think different) property in the same row. Not very sympathetic to those of us who are obviously unreasonable in wishing to be asleep at half midnight.
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Are you having another ‘once a year’ party now?
FYI I can’t hear myself think, even with my own music playing, I can’t drown yours out.
Actually I could turn it up a lot but that would hardly be fair in my neighbours… something you might want to consider.
Also FYI I have a life but don’t like your music not want to hear it. Why do you think you should inflict your taste on us? If you’re a decent DJ people will pay to hear you in a proper venue. At least put your speakers inside and shut the doors and windows.
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How about you post your number here so we can tell you when the music is too loud?
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In other Boroughs, you wouldn’t have to get into this on a public forum, you would call the out-of-hours noise patrol. Lewisham needs to improve services. If the current Council cannot provide essential services, they should resign. When you stand for election you are offering to take responsibility, not offering to be a bystander who points the finger of blame at central government.
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Don’t live in Harrow then, if you think Lewisham is bad, try Harrow.
Why do people want to be so loud… what happened to some peace and quiet… isn’t London loud enough already with the banging and screeching of the Tube, noise of the cars, vans and trucks, building noise and what not? I really don’t get it…
I just opened this topic as there are people that gather in the middle of a housing block and party there… Load music between Honor Oak Road, Tyson Rd & Benson rd
Really really annoying…
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My dj happens to have bookings every week and is actually on holiday himself so stop thinking everything is us. We have lived in this house for 25 years and have never had any problems it seems new neighbours have problems maybe you should move to a field in the middle of no where and you you will still probably moan at the cows for noise ! Maybe you should go knock the door and tell the person rather than being a keyboard warrior !!!
Lol, “antisocial behaviour” to have parties.
Some responses here seem like they’re directly out of George Orwell’s 1984
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It’s not antisocial to have a party if you keep the noise in your house/garden but it is antisocial if it can be heard in your neighbours house/garden.
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So agree… And yes it’s laughable until some people don’t give a care if they upset there neighbours which is not nice.
No one is saying no one can’t have fun and enjoy that’s what life is about but when it the music gets louder and into the early hours of the morning regardless that is crossing the line.
Find a venue or something to keep it contained??? Some just want to Netflix and chill in there own home stress free. 
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I don’t think I’ve ever so much twaddle as have glovers post . The only event that can reasonably allowed to wreck the afternoon , and evening of thousands of locals might be a proper community event .
Speaking to a handful of known locals and failing to find anyone prepared to say it stinks does not count as any kind of approval from the local community .
Great that it wound up by 11 ish but that’s the whole evening wrecked for most locals and as someone said, nobody knows what time the torment will end . The fact that nobody complained is a matter of confidence - people who make noise like your event are a mixture of profit making , delinquent or in your case , simply people who don’t care about others - doesn’t encourage one to make polite requests to turn things down does it ? Finally , your “ get a life “ comment is almost the stock response of the antisocial - I suspect that most if not all of those that resent having their peace taken away by the decisions of one person, lead rich ,fulfilling lives , they simply don’t hire someone to play stock recorded music , played through standard subwoofers and amplifiers to express their uniqueness as you seem to have .
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This point needs to be re-affirmed to the Council as well. If more people don’t complain, it’s because they expect to be ignored, or to be told “we don’t deal with that”.
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I did actually complain! See my post of the 19th july.