Italian police halt Mick Jagger’s party due to Wednesday music ban

Police on the Italian island of Stromboli halted a party attended by Mick Jagger because local regulations prohibit music on Wednesdays.

The Rolling Stones frontman was on Stromboli, a volcanic island in Sicily’s Aeolian archipelago, for the production of “Three Incestuous Sisters,” a film by Italian director Alice Rohrwacher in which he stars.

Jagger, 82, was celebrating the film’s completion at a local venue Wednesday night alongside co-stars Josh O’Connor, Jessie Buckley, Saoirse Ronan, Dakota Johnson and Isabella Rossellini when police arrived and asked them to end the party due to a Wednesday music ban imposed by the mayor.

Italian press reports said the music was coming from a small speaker at an acceptable volume. The order sparked confusion and amusement, but partygoers complied reluctantly, according to the reports.

La Repubblica reported that a local bookseller disclosed the incident on social media, stating the party was halted shortly before midnight after some Stromboli residents complained to police about the music.

The film crew and actors departed Stromboli on Thursday, with Jagger, who plays a lighthouse keeper and Josh O’Connor’s father in the film, leaving by private helicopter.

Riccardo Gullo, mayor of Lipari, which governs Stromboli and five other Aeolian islands, could not be immediately reached for comment when contacted by the Guardian.

Rosa Oliva, president of Pro Loco Amo Stromboli, a grassroots association promoting sustainable tourism and environmental protection, said stopping the party was “yet another sign” the island was being “penalised in its moments of visibility” rather than valued and supported, especially “after a winter of severe shortages and neglect.”

“An island of international importance such as ours deserves worthy administrative management, capable of preventing problems and encouraging dialogue among local communities, rather than resorting to belated or punitive interventions,” she said in a statement to the Italian press.

“From the mayor, one would have expected a welcome to the guests, or at least a greeting and a thank you for their crucial contribution to the Aeolian economy and their visibility. Our island lives off tourism.”

Jagger, who owns a home in Sicily’s province of Syracuse, arrived on Stromboli a few days ago. The island had been transformed into an open-air set for weeks, and he was welcomed “with the usual island discretion,” according to SkyTG24.

“Three Incestuous Sisters” is based on Audrey Niffenegger’s bestselling novel of the same name.

Rohrwacher received considerable acclaim for her film “Happy as Lazzaro,” which won best screenplay at Cannes in 2018, and her 2023 follow-up “La Chimera.”