Lemmy Kilemister, from Motorhead, always gives fantastic interviews, gives a tame interview for once. He discusses the new ruling in in Scotland where there is a new directive to control the noise level at concerts. The Health and Safety Executive is in charge of enforcing this directive.

“The essence of rock’n’roll is loud music,” he said. “How the hell can we be expected to enjoy ourselves if we’ve got to turn it down?”

Damn it! Lemmy is right. Rock N' Roll is meant to be loud.

The new rules will cap weekly noise exposure to 85 decibels. Loud rock concerts need to cancelled out by periods of quiet times. The loudest rock band was The Who. In 1976, they reached 126 decibels. But in 2007 they were beaten by the punk band Gallows. Gallows hit 132.5 decibels. That is louder than standing 100 feet away from a 747 taking off.

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