In my research I found an interview with "The Gov's" manager Richard Tonkin talking of how it has been a fighting battle to keep this nationally renowned hotel open, because of recent residential construction. "You would never be allowed to do it - noise complaints and building houses without insulation - living next to an airport, but you can do next to a pub with a band with a bunch of kids playing." - Richard Tonkin. .
It has been a winning battle so far, with the most recent rally pending on July 14 of this year. There have even been e-mails sent to every hotmail user in Adelaide, with music in their interests, promoting this rally; I myself received the advertisement stating the following; .
"Yes save the Gov & the future of Adelaide's music scene. Due to the increase of city residential apartments pubs have been hit with noise pollution laws. This has a serious effect on the industry. No venues, no bands. Make your opinion heard and come to the protest. SATURDAY, JULY 14, 10:30am at Victoria Square. Marching to Parliament House.".
And that is the point; No venues, no bands.
Another concern is why people are buying up apartments in an area they are not familiar with. Why are these people not looking around the area and taking in the fact that they will live three doors down from a pub that has local bands playing nearly every night? And if they are looking around the area, or if they do know the area, why are they buying an apartment in an area they know is going to be noisy?.
People buying city apartments should also expect noise, when you are living in the middle of a fair sized city, in an apartment above one of the busiest streets in town, of course you are going to have noise. Though if they do need to live so close to the city then they should learn to live with the noise, because the noise they are complaining about is not noise, it is music, and it has always been there, and hopefully always will.