Dundee venue to face the music over noise nuisance complaints

Dundee live music venue Non-Zero’s faces being closed down after complaints that its bands are too loud.

The Castle Street venue could lose its licence to play music and sell alcohol after apparently ignoring three requests to quieten down. Licensing officers branded the noise heard in the restaurant below the venue as “unacceptable”.

Officers visited the Castle Grill restaurant after Non-Zero’s, formerly Dexter’s, had been given its final warning. In a letter to the council’s licensing board, officer Simon Goulding said the noise was so loud that it shook Castle Grill.

The live music spot is allowed to open from 11am until midnight all week. It regularly hosts gigs, blues afternoons and open-mic jams and has seen hundreds of bands play there.

In a letter to the licensing board, Mr Goulding said that Castle Grill manager Patrick Verma had first complained about the noise causing a “nuisance” in October.

The Non-Zero’s licence is held by bar manager David Neill, who said: “We have been an established music venue for 25 years and we have never had any trouble.”

The licensing board will consider the issue on Thursday.