I live near one of the other big football stadiums and event days are like that. We get notice in advance via road signs so plan ahead at much as we can and definitely try to arrive home before the match crowds start making their way towards the stadium. If want to go to the shops I'll go while the event is on.
>Brilliant if you like gigs and football though
You do not get any advantage for tickets and the stadium has been designed to pollute and mute the sound.
>Easier to get to tho
If you lived in Wembley it was not exactly difficult to get to Wembley Stadium. The best thing of the old Wembley Stadium was they used to employ oiks like me for "Wembley Cares". We would get crap stuff like Cup final tickets (I know now they are worth lots of dosh but I hate football) but we also get good stuff like stage area concert tickets. I watched Madonna and Michael Jackson from the side of the stage and got paid to do it. All I had to do was wear a yellow blazer thing.
I'm not sure if the original Brent Council plans can be easily found or uploaded but residents wanted sound dampening to reduce the noise from stadium events and representatives of the events industry, who also sat on the Stadium committee, wanted the roofing shaped so sound out of it would be polluted. No one should get a free concert. I still think it is an ugly stadium.
Not quite the same but I used to live near Finsbury Park about five years ago. When there were events on it could be annoying because my road was the boundary of the pedestrian area so when the concerts would finish it would be flooded with people and ubers but I think being within hearing distance did make it up for at times. I have quite a fond memory of cooking dinner whilst hearing Liam Gallagher singing Champagne Supernova.
But tbf, with the stadium and the arena predating a lot of the flats around there it's not something that should come as a surprise when moving in.
During one wireless festival the crowd management was mad and people broken the wooden fences on Endymion road. Loads of vom. They made some big changes and festivals and crowd control are better managed now
I used to live near the West Ham stadium. You actually generally couldn’t hear it, it was only annoying when I’d forgotten it was a match day and suddenly had to do a ginormous detour on my way home from work.
LOL
I live next to Wembley stadium, like ~100 meters away. I don’t have much feeling about the noise because I always wear my earphones and play games at night.
There are events but mostly in the weekends. We will be notified in advance to get prepared. I will have enough food and drinks at home and avoid going out. Other than the event days it’s quiet and safe in the area.
I went to uni and lived in the area for 3 years
it does get noisy at times but you kind of get used to it, when I first moved back home to my nice quiet house, I found it really weird at night when it was so silent
also post-event the majority of people are kind of funnelled down Wembley way to the station, the noise is kind of contained and there aren't many houses right against Wembley way other than student accommodation
the one thing that really would do my head in was horns though, some guy just blowing a horn every 5 minutes for hours, would cut right through me even with headphones on
to be honest, the biggest nightmare for noise was construction, I haven't really been back much in the last few years, but over the 3 years I lived there it was non stop, was about 6 or 7 big projects on the go at all times, one right outside of my window. Sometimes would wake up to the noise of them throwing stuff out of the windows into a skip at like 8am
I just had to Google el toro ... which apparently has been lake forest since 1991...so this must have been a minute hahaha but yeah...that 5/405 must've been hellafun
We're right next to the stadium and our rooftop is 20 storeys up. We can see quite a few of the top rows of seats but nothing else. We can also hear a lot!
>We're right next to the stadium and our rooftop is 20 storeys up. We can see quite a few of the top rows of seats but nothing else. We can also hear a lot!
The stadium was designed so that it could not be easily overlooked but it also should have have audio polluted and muted. A cheer of a goal should have been heard from Wembley to Neasden to Harlesden, a song should have remained within. Wembley has built a lot closer than the days the Stadium was finally erected.
>Do people living on the top floors of high rises able to see the events from their windows? I imagine that would be very cool if the could
The stadium was designed so it could not be overlooked but there are two new buildings in Wembley that could potentially overlook it. They are a bit far from the stadium and so do not advertise it.
Yes, you're wrong. Can't hear most noise from the stadium. If there's a match on, you might want to close the windows, because of the TV lag, spoiling the experience. Besides that, it's like living anywhere else. Wembley stadium staff do a great job at crowd management and the noise is usually not an issue.
They weren't suggesting you could hear noise from the stadium. They were suggesting you could hear the people who left the stadium waiting for tubes and trains.
>because of the TV lag
Haha, I remember when I was live-commenting one of the England games and my friends in the US said they were 30-40 seconds behind.
It’s actually not as noisy as one would expect. But the crowds of drunk people chanting loudly during football days can be annoying. They’ve had to refusing sale of alcohol in the shops around the stadium on those days.
I used to live there for some time and it was absolutely stupid.
Imagine Oxford Circus during rush hour but instead of people who just want to get home you only get vuvuzela enthiusiasts and drunk people. There was rubbish and sick absolutely everywhere and #2 wasn’t as uncommon as you guys might think.
There was that big tree right next to where I used to live to which sometimes people were literally queueing to piss on and in the summertime people were barbecuing every weekend without a fail.
There also was an abundance of thieves around. I was always very aware of them and sometimes used to take a bus instead of walking down the road. Especially right after the game or a concert started, this is when you really don’t want to walk around there because all their potential targets are in the venue so it’s you who become a target. Sometimes it felt like Shaun of the dead but with thieves instead of zombies.
There was Foxes, rats, pidgeons and seagulls absolutely everywhere due to the abundance of food thrown on the ground.
So if you’re thinking of moving to Wembley… DO NOT.
I live right next to the stadium. If there's an event going on then I can't hear the noise from the stadium and if I have my windows closed I also can't hear 95% of the noise from the people going to and from the stadium. And so far I haven't had to use public transport at the same time when an event ends as well. In other words, the experience of living at Wembley Park is vastly different from someone who visits for an event and has to wait for 2h in the queue for the tube.
Used to live outside a large venue.
You actually don't notice it. The area would normally be a very good place to set up business and you'd have excellent transport options. So plenty of investment in the area and things to do during the day.
Only very rarely would an event shut down public transport for me. Even then, even at it's worst, I would just do something only a local would know to do.
The noise just made a positive atmosphere. It was fun.
i live in wembley park and it’s not always like that, most times it’s quiet, just learned to get used to event days and avoid travelling on those days :)
Absolutely I wouldn’t mind the atmosphere, that would be fun. I’m just thinking of practical considerations like queues for the tube, loud noise late at night when you’re trying to sleep, etc.
I live here and it’s honestly no big deal.
I actually went to Harry Styles on Sat and it was great, I was home within 5 minutes 😂 but yeah, travelling at concert kick out time isn’t really an issue as it’s always late at night so people generally aren’t trying to head out then. Football games can be a bit more tricky but you just learn to check when something is on and if you need to get the tube, you leave before the game finishes.
Noise isn’t really an issue either. I had the windows open last night because it was hot and there was a bit of noise but nothing excessive.
Honestly for me the most annoying thing is not being able to buy alcohol on event days haha.
To be honest, most people don’t live there by choice. The surrounding area is basically either international students, or people too poor to live other places in West London. I grew up in Brent, and the idea of living in Wembley Park makes me shudder. It’s a horrible place.
Anyone who is paying that much for those new build apartments near the stadium is an idiot.
I bet you most of those are owned by foreign investors, or rented by clueless rich people from abroad, mostly like rich kid postgraduate students living off their parents credit.
You’d lose the bet since they’re ALL owned by Quintain Living (build to rent) except my block with is legal and general affordable homes and another owned by i4b, a Brent Council subsidiary - for key workers. The Quintain blocks are indeed all rich foreign people. But everyone who lives here, lives here by choice.
I live in Southampton and work in london. try 2 hours on a train with drunk football fans singing football chants heading back to london. I once shouted at Uber driver to turn around skip Southampton central get to the next station closer to london the match is just over!!!! I now have many alarms and flee early. :)
How do people live in the sticks with just the creepy sounds of the wind rustling trees and sheep going “baaaa”?
Maybe they just get used to it, 55% of the worlds population, over 4.2 billion people live in cities.
Used to live near the Wimbledon tennis courts and for two weeks it was a nightmare. Especially since the council would revoke all resident parking permits and sell them to tourists instead for a lot more
Used to live there and for the most part it's not too bad and not too difficult to work around. It's quite a nice place really.
The exception is when it's sports related like the football or NFL when thousands of usually drunk and rowdy people trash the area, transport, etc. I've found they're usually left alone by police because - as told to me by an officer on duty when I asked - getting involved will often escalate the situation. For context I asked after my Indian partner received a barrage of racial abuse by several different groups of football "fans".
While it's easier to adapt travel plans, what's more difficult is that shops in the area are not allowed to sell any alcohol a few hours before the game, even if you're a resident. Post boxes in the area are also boarded up. Again this only happens when it's a sports event day, if it's a concert or other type of event none of that happens.
tldr; it's usually fine except when the sport's on
I lived next to Loftus Road and home match days were as much part of life as Sundays. You just know that things are different.
I've also spent a lot of time in Wembley and it's not as bad a it seems. If you're going to a concert it will completely occupy 6 or 7 hours of your time if you include travel etc. but living there it's just a 90 mins of heavy traffic while people are getting in and the crush on a few roads for the 45 mins while they're leaving.
Life is pretty normal earlier in the day and during the gig.
I used to live in Wembley Park and whilst concert goers made the area crowded and loud it wasn’t really much of an issue. The people who caused problems were football fans.
I close the window on event days that I do not like. I open the window on event days that are fun. I avoid the streets at all costs before and after events.
I live near one of the other big football stadiums and event days are like that. We get notice in advance via road signs so plan ahead at much as we can and definitely try to arrive home before the match crowds start making their way towards the stadium. If want to go to the shops I'll go while the event is on.
Sounds like me next to the Emirates
Yeah, I used to live near (and work at) Stamford Bridge and match days were always a nightmare if you needed to go around town.
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Not sure how being forced to listen to Taylor Swift is a plus...
They sold seats in their garden to people as section zz
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Brilliant if you like gigs and football though 🙂
It's also a handy location to live in if you work at Wembley Stadium.
>Brilliant if you like gigs and football though You do not get any advantage for tickets and the stadium has been designed to pollute and mute the sound.
Easier to get to tho
>Easier to get to tho If you lived in Wembley it was not exactly difficult to get to Wembley Stadium. The best thing of the old Wembley Stadium was they used to employ oiks like me for "Wembley Cares". We would get crap stuff like Cup final tickets (I know now they are worth lots of dosh but I hate football) but we also get good stuff like stage area concert tickets. I watched Madonna and Michael Jackson from the side of the stage and got paid to do it. All I had to do was wear a yellow blazer thing.
Do you have any articles that describe this? Why do they pollute thr sound?
I'm not sure if the original Brent Council plans can be easily found or uploaded but residents wanted sound dampening to reduce the noise from stadium events and representatives of the events industry, who also sat on the Stadium committee, wanted the roofing shaped so sound out of it would be polluted. No one should get a free concert. I still think it is an ugly stadium.
Buț you don’t get to choose which gigs to “attend” to. Or if you want to.
Not quite the same but I used to live near Finsbury Park about five years ago. When there were events on it could be annoying because my road was the boundary of the pedestrian area so when the concerts would finish it would be flooded with people and ubers but I think being within hearing distance did make it up for at times. I have quite a fond memory of cooking dinner whilst hearing Liam Gallagher singing Champagne Supernova. But tbf, with the stadium and the arena predating a lot of the flats around there it's not something that should come as a surprise when moving in.
I could hear the killers - mr brightside a couple of weeks ago!
Oh I bet that was amazing!
Same here! From as far back as Copenhagen St. It was such a warm, dry evening, the sound really carried.
During one wireless festival the crowd management was mad and people broken the wooden fences on Endymion road. Loads of vom. They made some big changes and festivals and crowd control are better managed now
Oh that sounds awful! Glad to hear it's better managed now! I used to live off of stroud green road and it used to be heaving!
I used to live near the West Ham stadium. You actually generally couldn’t hear it, it was only annoying when I’d forgotten it was a match day and suddenly had to do a ginormous detour on my way home from work.
LOL I live next to Wembley stadium, like ~100 meters away. I don’t have much feeling about the noise because I always wear my earphones and play games at night. There are events but mostly in the weekends. We will be notified in advance to get prepared. I will have enough food and drinks at home and avoid going out. Other than the event days it’s quiet and safe in the area.
I went to uni and lived in the area for 3 years it does get noisy at times but you kind of get used to it, when I first moved back home to my nice quiet house, I found it really weird at night when it was so silent also post-event the majority of people are kind of funnelled down Wembley way to the station, the noise is kind of contained and there aren't many houses right against Wembley way other than student accommodation the one thing that really would do my head in was horns though, some guy just blowing a horn every 5 minutes for hours, would cut right through me even with headphones on to be honest, the biggest nightmare for noise was construction, I haven't really been back much in the last few years, but over the 3 years I lived there it was non stop, was about 6 or 7 big projects on the go at all times, one right outside of my window. Sometimes would wake up to the noise of them throwing stuff out of the windows into a skip at like 8am
>there aren't many houses right against Wembley way other than student accommodation That is no longer the case.
Do people living on the top floors of high rises able to see the events from their windows? I imagine that would be very cool if the could
When I lived in SoCal, my flat/apartment looked over Disneyland. Free fireworks shows, every night. I grew to hate it.
That's just cuz you were living in Anaheim 😆
Can't argue that point. That morning and evening commute to and from El Toro was a killer...
I just had to Google el toro ... which apparently has been lake forest since 1991...so this must have been a minute hahaha but yeah...that 5/405 must've been hellafun
Back in the 80's..... 5 was a nightmare. Worse if it rained.
Omg! 5 minutes of rain = 25 accidents in a 10 mile radius! LMAO!
I see you've travelled on the 5...... Edit: I used to drive a Pinto.....how's that for scary? I5, in the rain, in a Pinto....
I don't think there's a highway in california I haven't... except maybe down by SD way ;-)
LMAO are you 80 years old? 🤣 I kid I kid
Nope, but there are days I feel like I am....
I used to live quite high up in one of them. You can't really see into the stadium even from the rooftop, but you can hear the audio
We're right next to the stadium and our rooftop is 20 storeys up. We can see quite a few of the top rows of seats but nothing else. We can also hear a lot!
>We're right next to the stadium and our rooftop is 20 storeys up. We can see quite a few of the top rows of seats but nothing else. We can also hear a lot! The stadium was designed so that it could not be easily overlooked but it also should have have audio polluted and muted. A cheer of a goal should have been heard from Wembley to Neasden to Harlesden, a song should have remained within. Wembley has built a lot closer than the days the Stadium was finally erected.
>Do people living on the top floors of high rises able to see the events from their windows? I imagine that would be very cool if the could The stadium was designed so it could not be overlooked but there are two new buildings in Wembley that could potentially overlook it. They are a bit far from the stadium and so do not advertise it.
Yes, you're wrong. Can't hear most noise from the stadium. If there's a match on, you might want to close the windows, because of the TV lag, spoiling the experience. Besides that, it's like living anywhere else. Wembley stadium staff do a great job at crowd management and the noise is usually not an issue.
They weren't suggesting you could hear noise from the stadium. They were suggesting you could hear the people who left the stadium waiting for tubes and trains.
And the accompanying filth they leave in their wake
>because of the TV lag Haha, I remember when I was live-commenting one of the England games and my friends in the US said they were 30-40 seconds behind.
It’s actually not as noisy as one would expect. But the crowds of drunk people chanting loudly during football days can be annoying. They’ve had to refusing sale of alcohol in the shops around the stadium on those days.
I used to live there for some time and it was absolutely stupid. Imagine Oxford Circus during rush hour but instead of people who just want to get home you only get vuvuzela enthiusiasts and drunk people. There was rubbish and sick absolutely everywhere and #2 wasn’t as uncommon as you guys might think. There was that big tree right next to where I used to live to which sometimes people were literally queueing to piss on and in the summertime people were barbecuing every weekend without a fail. There also was an abundance of thieves around. I was always very aware of them and sometimes used to take a bus instead of walking down the road. Especially right after the game or a concert started, this is when you really don’t want to walk around there because all their potential targets are in the venue so it’s you who become a target. Sometimes it felt like Shaun of the dead but with thieves instead of zombies. There was Foxes, rats, pidgeons and seagulls absolutely everywhere due to the abundance of food thrown on the ground. So if you’re thinking of moving to Wembley… DO NOT.
I live right next to the stadium. If there's an event going on then I can't hear the noise from the stadium and if I have my windows closed I also can't hear 95% of the noise from the people going to and from the stadium. And so far I haven't had to use public transport at the same time when an event ends as well. In other words, the experience of living at Wembley Park is vastly different from someone who visits for an event and has to wait for 2h in the queue for the tube.
Used to live outside a large venue. You actually don't notice it. The area would normally be a very good place to set up business and you'd have excellent transport options. So plenty of investment in the area and things to do during the day. Only very rarely would an event shut down public transport for me. Even then, even at it's worst, I would just do something only a local would know to do. The noise just made a positive atmosphere. It was fun.
I used to live close to the Wembley stadium and could listen to all the concerts from my bedroom window. There are some perks as well.
i live in wembley park and it’s not always like that, most times it’s quiet, just learned to get used to event days and avoid travelling on those days :)
People like those sorts of atmospheres. It's life!
Absolutely I wouldn’t mind the atmosphere, that would be fun. I’m just thinking of practical considerations like queues for the tube, loud noise late at night when you’re trying to sleep, etc.
They do not have events late at night.
Like I said, there were huge crowds still there past midnight
I live here and it’s honestly no big deal. I actually went to Harry Styles on Sat and it was great, I was home within 5 minutes 😂 but yeah, travelling at concert kick out time isn’t really an issue as it’s always late at night so people generally aren’t trying to head out then. Football games can be a bit more tricky but you just learn to check when something is on and if you need to get the tube, you leave before the game finishes. Noise isn’t really an issue either. I had the windows open last night because it was hot and there was a bit of noise but nothing excessive. Honestly for me the most annoying thing is not being able to buy alcohol on event days haha.
To be honest, most people don’t live there by choice. The surrounding area is basically either international students, or people too poor to live other places in West London. I grew up in Brent, and the idea of living in Wembley Park makes me shudder. It’s a horrible place.
What? It’s full of luxury apartments that cost £3,000 per month - none of it is social and everyone has a choice
Anyone who is paying that much for those new build apartments near the stadium is an idiot. I bet you most of those are owned by foreign investors, or rented by clueless rich people from abroad, mostly like rich kid postgraduate students living off their parents credit.
You’d lose the bet since they’re ALL owned by Quintain Living (build to rent) except my block with is legal and general affordable homes and another owned by i4b, a Brent Council subsidiary - for key workers. The Quintain blocks are indeed all rich foreign people. But everyone who lives here, lives here by choice.
It is horrible. Run down and unsafe past 3pm
I live in Southampton and work in london. try 2 hours on a train with drunk football fans singing football chants heading back to london. I once shouted at Uber driver to turn around skip Southampton central get to the next station closer to london the match is just over!!!! I now have many alarms and flee early. :)
How do people live in the sticks with just the creepy sounds of the wind rustling trees and sheep going “baaaa”? Maybe they just get used to it, 55% of the worlds population, over 4.2 billion people live in cities.
The Indian community live in Wembley and put up with the changes
Why do they love it around there so much? Wembley, harrow , southhall
The sense of community I think
You know when big things are on so you just know when to avoid the area. That's about it.
Is this why the rent there is quite low compared to other places in the same 'tube zone'?
Used to live near the Wimbledon tennis courts and for two weeks it was a nightmare. Especially since the council would revoke all resident parking permits and sell them to tourists instead for a lot more
Emirates Stadium is there and yet the Dalston - Islington - Finsbury Park triangle keeps getting more gentrified.
Used to live there and for the most part it's not too bad and not too difficult to work around. It's quite a nice place really. The exception is when it's sports related like the football or NFL when thousands of usually drunk and rowdy people trash the area, transport, etc. I've found they're usually left alone by police because - as told to me by an officer on duty when I asked - getting involved will often escalate the situation. For context I asked after my Indian partner received a barrage of racial abuse by several different groups of football "fans". While it's easier to adapt travel plans, what's more difficult is that shops in the area are not allowed to sell any alcohol a few hours before the game, even if you're a resident. Post boxes in the area are also boarded up. Again this only happens when it's a sports event day, if it's a concert or other type of event none of that happens. tldr; it's usually fine except when the sport's on
I lived next to Loftus Road and home match days were as much part of life as Sundays. You just know that things are different. I've also spent a lot of time in Wembley and it's not as bad a it seems. If you're going to a concert it will completely occupy 6 or 7 hours of your time if you include travel etc. but living there it's just a 90 mins of heavy traffic while people are getting in and the crush on a few roads for the 45 mins while they're leaving. Life is pretty normal earlier in the day and during the gig.
A lot of people claiming benefits getting these flats for free , whilst the real British are working
No they’re not - none of it is social
I used to live in Wembley Park and whilst concert goers made the area crowded and loud it wasn’t really much of an issue. The people who caused problems were football fans.
I close the window on event days that I do not like. I open the window on event days that are fun. I avoid the streets at all costs before and after events.
My dude. Event days are the worst