Dance festival blocked as music 'form of torture'

A dance music festival will not go ahead this year after complaints of heavy bass causing "a form of torture" to residents.

Organisers of Goa Cream Festival hoped to hold the event for the third year running at Yewtree Farm, near Thornbury, from 12 September to 14 September.

But South Gloucestershire councillors refused the festival's bid on 8 April after feedback from Avon and Somerset Police and the council's environmental health team.

A local resident who filed a complaint to police after the event last year said in a letter: "It was non-stop heavy bass music; it was almost inhumane and a form of torture".