I heard it in the thumping bass — boom, boom, boom. San Francisco Held at Pier 80 in Bayview, the two-day Portra Festival took the East Bay over the weekend to perform top electronic music acts such as Flume, The Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim.
Residents say pulsating music on social media “Surprisingly noisy” When drive them crazy of San Francisco Noedani, Castro And Near Twin Peaks – And Across The Bay Auckland and Alameda. Alameda’s Mark Schulze told his SFGATE that sometimes the music is so loud that the windows of his house rattle.
“I can’t believe it… I can hear the heavy bass of the Portola Music Festival right here in Noe Valley.” I have written 1 Twitter user.
“@LondonBreed It’s time to stop the ‘music festival’ nightmare in San Francisco tonight!” share another. “We live miles away in Alameda and the walls of our house are vibrating. This is against California noise laws. Please stop!”
The city of Alameda issued a message on Sunday warning residents of the noise source, saying police were aware of the problem but had “limited capacity to address the problem.”
Some Twitter users said they were confused as to where the sounds they heard at home were coming from. “I’ve been out jam-jam, neighborhood chatter with hooligans banging deep, pulsating bass that echoes on the floor @PortolaFestivalacross the San Francisco Bay wrote one.
“Where is the noise coming from, do you know?” Said another twitter user. “Folsom Street Fair or Portra Music Festival. Twin He’s in the Peaks and the bass drives me crazy.”
The festival took place on Saturday and Sunday, but we got to hear Friday’s rehearsals as well. “That bass sound: Pier80 in SF, Portola music festival. Friday rehearsal, still going on tonight at 10:30,” he tweeted. share.
Many on social media also praised the musical act: “The Chemical Brothers are the undisputed masters of electronic dance music.” wrote“They killed Portra outright.”
The festival was produced by Goldenvoice, the same promoter as Coachella. crowd control, at one stage fans flooded over the fence. It’s the first time it’s held in Tokyo. The event is named after his 1909 Portola Festival, which celebrated the city’s reopening after the 1906 earthquake.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health, which oversees the city’s noise program, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. SFGATE has also contacted the San Francisco Police Department and Goldenvoice regarding this article, but has not received a response at the time of publication.
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