There is a Rock Weekend Festiveal that for 10 years pretended to be a 'Gospel Music Festival' - I had a previous thread about this last year (Noise in the scale of C!).

The relevant Qld Law says 'max 60 dB(A)' whereas they pump out about 120-130 dB(C) - which (of course!) reads as 60dB(A) on the 'offical meter'...

My attempt to discuss the matter resulted in 'offical Govt correspondence' which popinted out that "the dB(A) scale measured sounds across the whole spectrum of music and not just music in the musical scale of C" ..... AAGHHHHH!!!!!