ACTOR Warren Mitchell has insisted he is not a “kill-joy” despite protesting against plans for another lakeside jazz concert at stately Kenwood House.
Mr Mitchell – famous for playing grump Alf Garnett in the hit BBC comedy series ‘Til Death Do Us Part and In Sickness And In Health – is amongst objectors who want Camden Council to pull the plug on the Jazz Café Picnic, scheduled for Sunday July 10.
Mr Mitchell, whose Stormont Road home in Highgate backs onto the Heath thought organisers and residents had reached an unwritten deal in which summer events had been kept to a carefully planned schedule.
He is now fuming that back-to-back concerts have been planned to cover both Saturday and Sunday nights.
His email – seen by the New Journal – added: “Having achieved a reasonable compromise through residents’ protests, it would seem that we are now being threatened with two back-to-back concerts, with the resulting traffic congestion and loss of Kenwood as an open space on summer weekends.”
A spokeswoman for event organisers IMG said: “Hundreds of thousands of people, many local people, come to enjoy listening to music at Kenwood. Fifty people have objected – that says something.”