Hi Richard

Whilst certainly not being an advocate of loud music or any form of noise nuisance, pubs have had amplified music since the fifties in the form of juke boxes. In the eighties I used to work behind the bar of a working mens club - we had loads of complaints about the loud music, with some good reason, and the music licene was amended to stop it. The complaints were then about noisy guests leaving the club, bangng car doors and sounding their horns.

Living next to a pub is not a good idea unless you are prepared to put up with it.