It has to be the worst feeling ever.
It brings us back to the rare nights during college life when we would choose to go to bed early for an exam the next day, and your friends would head out socialising for the night. Cue, you’re awake all night listening to the singing, music, drinking, partying and general fun all night.
But instead of burying his head under his pillow and crying, willing for sleep to come, this resident decided to give his over exuberant neighbours an ‘X-Factor’ style judgement the next morning after their karaoke session.
Oli Beale pinned his written verdict on his neighbours’ unwelcome Saturday night performance to the communal notice board at the block of converted warehouse-style flats where he lives in Hackney, east London.
He then posted a photo of the note on Twitter, and was amazed by the scale of response as it was retweeted several hundred times.
Addressed “to the people that kept us up all night by singing/screaming on their balcony”, the saracastic critique thanks them for their “epic performance.”
The 33-year-old advertising creative, wrote: “Your terrace faces 115 windows so you really did have the perfect stage.
“I’m sure you’re keen to hear our verdict.”
Oli’s epic note to his neighbours.
Oli ranked each of their songs out of 10, one of the worst-rated song being his neighbours’ rendition of Pinball Wizard. Oli only gave the singers three out of ten for their attempt and branded it “terrible”.
At 3.14am the noisy neighbours attempted to sing along to Walk This Way by Aerosmith.
Simon Cowell-style, Mr Beale described it as “the lowest point of the performance” and gave the singers one out of 10 for their efforts.
We think he should take to the ‘X-Factor’ judge’s chair.
Although, Oli seemed to almost enjoy the crowd’s rendition of Elton John’s ‘Tiny Dancer’.
“Actually very good,” he wrote. “I’ve always said it: if you’re going to be woken up after 2 hours’ sleep, it might as well be to a herd of morons screaming ‘Tiny Dancer’.”
Mr Beale signed off the note “I hate you,” but said he did not know the identity of the singers.
Strong words finished the note off…
Hate is something we would all feel towards the singers the next morning we think.
Speaking after his review went viral, he said: “I was lying in bed getting more and more wound up about it and then I just thought I would write a little critique of their songs as a way of getting through the night.
“The poor guys, they were probably just having a party. It’s not like I’m striding around absolutely fuming.”
But it wasn’t Oli’s first time going viral on the net. In 2009 a letter of complaint he wrote to Virgin Atlantic about the quality of his in-flight meal also went viral and it was praised as being hilarious.
Oli Beale, Her.ie‘s new favourite funny-man.
