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"Public Performance charges?"

I heard something about this. To be able to pay live music, village halls and pubs will have to have some £800 a year license. I think.

What a great way to encourage and aid music.

Anybody else heard of it?

As many of you will be aware our country's licensing laws are due to undergo some major changes, which will definitely benefit those of us who like a few ales from time to time. However, the present bill will adversely affect live music and performance to the extent that it will become illegal, and punishable by prison to teach music, use a rehearsal room, try an instrument in a music shop, make a recording in a recording studio, unless a license is first obtained. The current bill would make live music licensable in pubs, clubs, places where alcohol is served, churches, mosques, synagogues and other places of worship, schools and colleges, community centres, village halls and private homes and gardens (singing Happy Birthday would become illegal!). This bill is an assault on our civil liberties and will severely restrict participation of the performing arts. If you would like to object then please sign the ever-growing petition (currently 40,000ish signatures) at:

www.PetitionOnline.com/2inabar

It sounds perfectly fine to me. The Performing Rights Society bills pretty much everyone who plays music to the public - from radio stations playing the artists work to shops and restaurants who play the radio stations. This money is then used to pay the respective artists royalties for the use of thier music.

Live music is slightly different - but again, if sounds perfectly reasonable. If you look at the benefit a bar will get out of having a musician booked, £800 a year is nothing.

The reason they pay it is so that musicians get paid for publicly playing their music in those venues.

So its swings and roundabouts really...

Bloomin ridiculous.

Lets charge people with little money to spare to hear what their mates have created, so the mates can actualy get somewhere with their passion.

yah. Labour - Ah they all hate us already, lets make it worse....

Yeah I heard about it, and I signed a petition against it... can't remember the URL, I'll dig it up later if no-one else does first...

I heard something about this. To be able to pay live music, village halls and pubs will have to have some £800 a year license. I think.

What a great way to encourage and aid music.

Anybody else heard of it?