Beyonce dirge at 11.30 on Sunday evening can change your view of such things.

The sessions I try to get to have to stop at 10:30pm and one of those is mid week. I can't believe that we carry as much noise outside the pubs than a group of people talking on their way home having finished drinking at maybe 11:30pm (and on occasion talking can make sufficient noise in a pub for me to find difficulty in hearing Irish pipes maybe 3 feet away). I'll have to find out and can't get out at the moment but I'd be doubtful whether jukeboxes or a sporting event on tv would have to be turned off in nearby pubs at 10:30 even though both can make more noise than an accoustic session.

If there is a noise problem, I'd like to feel more confident that noise is treated equally.