Richard Swainson

Thank you, Richard Swainson (Waikato Times, March 3) for attacking the sound of music noise at the Hamilton cricket match. I have waited forever for somebody much younger than me to take a stand on the loud noise (that’s all it is) which spoils so many of our entertainment functions today. It seems to me that the technical musical 28-yearolds of our time are like a plague of destroyers wanting to rule and destroy all the pleasure we expect to get, after often paying good money to be made happy. They put their ear pads on and consider nobody but the button under their fingers and themselves, and worse is that they get paid for it. They started in the 1970s with motor racing sport when car rallies were the weekend favourite on TV and all the boys wanted to hear was the exciting grunt of the car motors. But no! There had to be music too, but quieter then.

That was the beginning of what is now intolerable and often prevents some of us from venturing out, even to some musical concerts. Conversation takes a beating too under their control and so the social world crumbles more and more. Frances Buysman

Hamilton

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