MONTREAL - If the sound of Osheaga upset South Shore resident last weekend, they’re now realizing they hadn’t heard anything yet.
The decibels are climbing even higher this weekend for the Heavy Montreal festival at Parc Jean-Drapeau.
In its sixth year, dozens of metal, hard rock and punk bands are performing Saturday and Sunday.
Metallica headlines Saturday night, while other bands include Voivod, The Offspring, Slayer, Twisted Sister and Bad Religion, to name a few.
That’s not music to the ears of Sylvain Bergeron, who lives across the seaway from the park.
“At night, until 11, you can hear simply everything,” said Bergeron, who has a young daughter.
Not everyone is bothered by the noise. Saint-Lambert resident Tim Huot said he can’t understand what all the fuss is about.
“It's like background music,” he said. “It's not anything that you would get upset over. I can't understand why anybody would.”
The City of Saint-Lambert, however, said there were enough complaints to serve the Ville-Marie borough with a legal notice in June asking for stricter sound regulations.
A sound-level meter was even installed on the roof of a house near the park, and the data collected will be forwarded to an independent expert.
The City of Montreal said it won't comment on the legal notice it received from the City of Saint-Lambert, until its legal department has had adequate time to review the file.
Huot said he feels the City of Saint-Lambert is overreacting.
“I wouldn't want to spend the city's hard-earned tax money suing the city of Montreal. That I would view as a waste of money,” he said.
With files from CTV Montreal
