Locals to sue Barcelona council over Primavera Sound noise: 'We can't take it anymore'

Weekend two of this year's edition of the famed Primavera Sound music festival begins on Thursday night – but not free of controversy as a group of people who live near the Parc del Fòrum venue have announced plans to sue the Barcelona council over excessive noise.

"We can't take it anymore," Enric Navarro, one of the members of the Stop Concerts association that will be filing the complaint next week, said in an interview with Spanish public broadcaster TVE on Thursday morning.

There are some 7,000 Barcelona and Sant Adrià de Besòs residents in the area, Navarro explained, who are not only concerned about the noise that keeps them from getting "adequate" rest whenever the festival is on, but also about the littering and the "thousands upon thousands" of people who gather there in the early hours of the morning.

  

"We're disappointed with the council," Navarro lamented, adding that this year's edition has been "the worst" in terms of noise complaints since 2004 – it is also the first time it is held over two weekends to make up for pandemic-related cancellations.

Because of this, Stop Concerts hopes the festival will actually move to "Madrid or wherever else they like" next year.

This idea isn't entirely far-fetched: following a series of disagreements between the council and the festival organizers, who threatened to leave Catalonia altogether, next year the event is set to take place over two weekends, one in Madrid and another in Barcelona – for now.