What are the chances of someone calling the police if I play a gig in my house?
 

We still haven't finalised it yet, it would be either on a Friday or a Saturday, and with amplification reduced to a minimum. What if I let the neighbours know in advance (they are mostly students on either side of the house)?

It would be a mainly chaotic thing 'cause I've never played with my friend's on-off band before, and they are a style starkly different from mine. It's a fun thing more than anything.

The landlord lives far away. Do you think we would we incur the wrath of the law?

if your neighbours are ok with it, i don't think there's a problem. my brother rehearses with his band in our basement sometimes, even though the restaurant across the street has some tables in our garage (their customers hear the band very well)

we just made a deal about it and no one ever complains.

Go for it. Invite the neighbours. Consider police intervention a memorable bonus.

invite the police to jam along.

So long as the neighbours are cool you should be a-ok.

I need more information. How many neighbors? Ages, roughly? Gender? How thick are your walls and what are they made of?

All of these factors matter.

Just as a general guess, about a 1 out of 5 chance (or 20 percent), but that might change once I learn more from you.

the bouncy castle that's gonna be erected in the street outside could pose a problem or two.

Neighbours are young and I don't know them, apart from one dude. Crowd would potentially be 30-40 people, or something like that.

I haven't got any house mates, one of them moved round the corner because he's found a bigger place. We intend using him as a singer.

Mmmm. So. The two factors sort of cancel each other, but the size of the crowd... that's a lot of people, so it could get pretty rowdy. I'd say that increases your chances of getting called on. It also doesn't help that you don't know your neighbors.

I'm recalculating and now figure that your chances are better than 3 out of 5, or 60 percent, that neighbors will call the cops.

With any luck, at least some of the neighbours will be out anyway. I would let them know though, just to be sure. I woulod think that with what you have planned, they would be OK with it. It would be less of a potential hassle than holding an all-night party.

Curse you Derek, with your speed.

How long is the set? I've been in situations where the cops have been called, and it seems that as long as you don't have a huge set, you should be able to pull off at least 45 minutes of live music.

I don't think the crowd would get rowdy. It will probably consist mostly of gayzz.

Oh, well, in that case. Just a lot of gabbing about home decor and shoes, and such, right? That's better. More like 40 percent then.

yeah, I will definitely check with them first, and also I'll make sure we would play within the legal noise time-limits for weekends' parties. Or something like that.

the younger yr neighbo[u]rs are, the less likely they are to call in The Heat.

then again, I guess it also depends on the neighbo[u]rhood and how highly they value their peace and quiet. gated community vs. urban block, etc.

either way...fuck it! what can they do? arrest you? the worst that could happen is they tell you to stop.

a back-up plan might not hurt though.

PARTY AT PORKY's! I wish I could come...

I say go for it. Don't 'ask' your neighbors, just 'inform' them that you are having a jam session/party and you hope that they can deal with a night of debauchery.

If it is not a constant thing, I can't see it being an issue. Everyone has something to celebrate sometime.

If cops are called your neighbors are wankers. But that just adds to the memories in my opinion.

PS- Pics are a must. I expect at least one photo taken in my honor. Thank you very much.

Did this twice, at two different places. One was deep in the woods. Both times got the cops called on me... if it was at like 5pm on a Friday, you could probably get away with it for a few hours. Anything past 8 (or if the music lasts more than a few hours), you might get the cops called on you. The cops would merely tell you to turn that shit off. Highly doubt arrests will be made.

Oh.. that reminds me... One time, Robe. decided to play for 24 hours straight. We played from 8 am until 9pm that night. AS SOON AS IT HIT 9PM, the cops came and shut us down. We played anyway, though quietly... and about 20 minutes later, they came back and said if they had to come back again they'd fine us. We ended up releasing the whole session as the "DOOM'S DAY" box set. Haha. (which ended up being 10 of the 13 hours because we took a little break in between hours to save the file -- it takes a LONG time to save 60 minute wavs in super high quality on a slow ass windows me computer!)