Paul McCartney has agreed to turn down his practice sessions at the Millennium Dome after complaints from neighbours across the Thames. Macca is reported to have paid £250,000 to rent the empty Dome for three weeks as a venue for rehearsals for his upcoming European tour. But residents on the Isle of Dogs weren't impressed when his music started to carry.
One local resident, Eric Pemperton, told reporters: "I thought someone was listening to a ghettoblaster in one of the other flats. I had the windows closed and the front door just open enough to let the cat in and out. It took me a while to realise that this bass was coming from the Dome on the other side of the river. I rang up the environmental health officers at the council and they told me 'It's Paul McCartney'. I said 'So what?, he doesn't pay my rates, and if it was me that was doing this I would have been prosecuted'. I don't care who it is. It is bad enough that he arrives every morning in a noisy helicopter. I thought it was quite unacceptable and even my cat was disturbed."
Never one to disturb a cat, McCartney has agreed to keep his practicing down to 92 decibels.