Pipedown is a group of campaigners who lobby the UK government, work with officers of large organisations and speak to business owners at a local level to further the aims of our campaign.
Supporters you may know include Alfred Brendel, Stephen Fry, Lesley Garrett, Julian Lloyd Webber, Joanna Lumley, Tony Parsons, Philip Pullman, Simon Rattle, Mark Rylance, Prunella Scales, Jake Wallis Simons, Claire Tomalin and Gillian Weir.
We also have tens of thousands of non-celebrity supporters!
Pipedown has been involved in the decisions of many notable organisations and venues to turn off or reduce their piped music.
Our success include:
Pipedown is currently pressing for legislation (both in the Westminster Parliament and in the Scottish Parliament) to ban unwanted piped music and television in hospitals where patients, perhaps lying immobilised on beds or stretchers, may be literally powerless to escape it.
Sign the petition against unwanted music and television in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries, places which people have to visit and where forced music may be literally impossible to escape:
If protesting about piped music in a branch of a large chain, such as Boots or Tesco (both have muzac in some branches), do so at the shop concerned and also write to the Chief Executive.
Become a member of Pipedown and learn more about how we work together to put polite pressure on decision-makers to reduce or remove their organisation’s use of piped music.
