Bobby Gillespie Heads Noisy Neighbours Battle

Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie was the central figure of a residential campaign to stop a local pub from extending its licensing hours.

The singer – famous for his late night drug fuelled binges - took action against The Alma in Newington Green, North London.

In a leaked letter to the Islington council, the father of two complained about the pub “playing recorded music at an unacceptable volume past 12 o’clock.”

The letter went on: “There was a live percussionist playing along with the records, the sound was of a very high frequency which reverberated into my bedroom and my children's bedroom.

"I found the repetitiveness disturbing and I was unable to sleep because of it."

He continued that extending the music licence at the venue would mean The Alma was "disturbing the peace of our beautiful street and attracting noisy, drunk people to our area, leaving the premises or coming into the area for a late night drink who are incidentally just (as loud) if not louder than the music being played."

Fortunately for Gillespie, Islington Borough Council agreed with him and have only allowed The Alma to play load music once a month.  

However, a female employee of the bar told the Daily Mail: "The point is that he is complaining about us and he is from a rock band.

"It's quite an irony. At one point when the licensing was happening we did have quite a lot of parties, like wedding parties so we were playing music.

"We have never been so popular. We are allowed to play music until 1am but we don't use that. When we applied for our licence we got what we wanted."