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'Lower your volume': Man heckles band busking in public

A local band has shared their unpleasant experience of being heckled by a man while they were busking in public.Jazz, the singer of the band J.P.A.G, shared a video clip of the incident on Instagram, asking netizens what they would do in a similar situation.In her post on Saturday (Oct 3), she wrote about how her band had been performing...

AsiaOne Singapore2026-10-05 07:30查看原文 ↗

'Lower your volume': Man heckles band busking in public

A local band has shared their unpleasant experience of being heckled by a man while they were busking in public.

Jazz, the singer of the band J.P.A.G, shared a video clip of the incident on Instagram, asking netizens what they would do in a similar situation.

In her post on Saturday (Oct 3), she wrote about how her band had been performing peacefully for two hours before a man approached them. Jazz did not disclose the location.

"Lower your volume, you're too loud," the man can be heard telling the buskers.

When the band continued playing, he raised his voice and repeated himself.

Jazz nodded her head in acknowledgment as she continued singing while their guitarist, Wero, stopped strumming upon the man's request.

The band's keyboard player, Phoebe, also lowered her instrument's volume as the singer attempting to sing more softly.

Despite this, the man continued to yell at them to quieten down.

"His voice was almost as loud as our four instruments combined," Jazz wrote.

While they felt uneasy, she said the band tried to stay composed during the encounter.

Yet, the man persisted and confronted Phoebe, pointing at her as he repeated his demand for them to lower their volume.

In a separate clip, the band can be seen packing up upon the singer's request.

"Telling my bandmates to stop and pack up for their safety," Jazz wrote.

She also included a clip of a conversation with some police officers who asked them about the incident.

The bandmates told the police that the man had left shortly before the officers arrived at the scene.

They also described the man to the police officers and pointed in the direction he had headed.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jazz🇹🇭🇸🇬 (@jazzicalee)

A post shared by Jazz🇹🇭🇸🇬 (@jazzicalee)

'It's a public space'

The video posted by Jazz, who describes herself as a music teacher with a Bachelor of Music, has since amassed over 58,000 views on Instagram, over 1,800 likes and nearly 100 comments.

Netizens rallied behind the performers, saying that they were sorry to see the band experience something like this.

"It isn't right for him to come up and get close and personal," one said, pointing out the irony of the man calling the band "too loud" when he was louder than all of them.

Another said: "They're not busking in his house, it's a public space."

According to a netizen, the band was performing near Pasir Ris MRT station. This netizen apologised on behalf of the residents there, saying that most people in the area "aren't that rude".

AsiaOne has contacted the band and the police for more information.

laili.abdeen@asiaone.com

当地一支乐队分享了他们在街头卖艺时被一名男子骚扰的不愉快经历。

JPAG乐队主唱Jazz在Instagram上分享了这段事件视频，询问网友们如果遇到类似情况会怎么做。

她在周六（10月3日）的帖子中写道，她的乐队已经平静地演奏了两个小时，之后一名男子走近了他们。Jazz没有透露事发地点。

“把音量调小点，你们太吵了，”可以听到那名男子对街头艺人说。

乐队继续演奏时，他提高了嗓门，重复了一遍自己的话。

Jazz一边点头表示同意，一边继续唱歌，而他们的吉他手Wero应那名男子的要求停止了弹奏。

乐队的键盘手菲比也调低了乐器的音量，因为歌手试图放轻声音唱歌。

尽管如此，那名男子还是继续大声呵斥他们安静下来。

“他的声音几乎和我们四种乐器加起来的声音一样大，”爵士写道。

她说，虽然他们感到不安，但乐队在这次遭遇中努力保持镇定。