Shop music protest will not be silenced
HOW I agree with N. Harris about the loud, intrusive music now played nearly everywhere.
Different people have different tastes and even if it was music I liked, I do not want to hear it when I am trying to concentrate on my shopping.
Like N. Harris we have also walked out of shops and cafs where there is music playing.
A while ago we decided to look at the new BHS shop after its makeover. On entering we were blasted with head-banging music.
We did go upstairs to the restaurant intending to have a meal.
We could find nowhere we could sit to get away from the music, so decided to just have a quick coffee instead.
It was expensive and tasted awful, so we were literally only there a few minutes.
In that time, two large families came to the entrance, turned round and walked away.
Obviousluy, I don't know their reasons for leaving, but this was a Friday lunchtime and the restaurant was empty. In the pre-music days it was full.
We didn't bother looking round the store and have not been back since.
Where I am forced to shop (say for food) in a store with music, I take a list and go round as quickly as possible.
No browsing. I am sure there must be many people out there who hate it as much as we do – what about publishing a list of stores and cafs that are music free, for those of us who value their hearing.
MR AND MRS D. WATSON, Terrington St Clement.
PS: We discovered Netto and Farm Foods don't have it – it's wonderful.
I FIND considerable agreement with the letter written by N. Harris in the Lynn News (March 3), regarding background music in shops.
It is extremely distracting and is often played at a level, which when mixed with general conversation and movement of people, means it is difficult to have a meaningful talk to shop staff.
Does this account perhaps for the poor service?
Unfotunately, the TV channels also like to interrupt important discussions quite frequently with the juvenile decisions to play accordian music when the French are mentioned and mandolin music when the Italians are spoken of, and so on.
When writing to TV channels pointing this out, the usual reply is that in their opinion music always enhances a programme.
Probably shopkeepers will ignore my remarks, as do the TV chanels, but what I do is to avoid using the shops with music and go elsewhere.
Maybe N. Harris would do likewise – it may achieve very little but he/she will feel better by doing so.
MR J.A. PHILPOTT, County Court Road, Lynn
Music? What Music? Is your correspondent N. Harris (letter, March 3), perhaps referring to the mindless thudding which supposedly passes for music in some quarters these days?
Or is it the demented shrieking of a banshee that sometimes accompanies this thudding in the guise of singing?
Over-amplified bass and drums can hardly be considered music, in fact, it is no more than a monotonous, repetitive racket! In any case, are they really bass and drums that one hears or some pre-programmed electronic device?
The answer to this problem is simple enough, if the aforesaid din is heard when entering the offending store then don't patronise it, go somewhere else, after all there is usually an alternative to be found somewhere.
If it is loud enough to be heard in the street then reporting it to the Enviornment Agency as noise pollution might be considered.
M. HURN, Columbia Way, North Lynn
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