Lower volume and win new business, promoters told
The Netherlands' National Hearing Foundation has found that the vast majority of young people who don't attend festivals stay away because of excessive noise levels
News By | 27 July 2016
The Dutch Nationale Hoorstichting (National Hearing Foundation) is calling on the government to create a legal noise limit for live music after finding a third of under-30s have left festivals after not being able to stand the volume.
Surveying over 1,044 18-to-30-year-olds, the foundation also discovered that of those young people who had never attended a music festival, 73% blame fear of excessively loud music as the reason for their staying away – and that while a majority of respondents said promoters should be responsible for providing…
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