Drunken fans, gridlock, the noise heard miles away, feather boas littering the streets… What’s it really like to have a concert next door?
Living next to a major music venue is a constant education. For Katja Krebs, whose home is a stone’s throw from the Principality Stadium in the centre of Cardiff, the concerts she has dreaded the most have been nowhere near as intrusive as the ones she assumed would pass her by.
“Who would have thought that Rammstein [the German “dark gods of hard rock”] would be far less annoying than Coldplay?”
The latter, “for all their eco-credit, had at least three fireworks or explosions at various times throughout the evening and lots of little bits of paper covered the back yard afterwards.”
It was Ed Sheeran’s fans who purloined all the residents’ parking bays, and there was only one frustrating thing about Beyonce’s performance – and it was that Krebs could barely hear it.