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sign this petition! save live music!

  • 19-04-2007 6:29pm
    #1
    StormWarrior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭


    The Government have recently passed laws in the UK to try and suppress live music.
    Pubs which could previously offer work to solo musicians or duos now have to pay for a special licence and can only have 12 of these per year. Even school Xmas concerts need to be licensed.
    The unlicensed provision of even one musician is a potential criminal offence (although some places are exempt, including places of public religious worship, royal palaces and moving vehicles). Max penalty: £20,000 fine and six months in prison (for the proprietor and the musicians).

    The rationale is to prevent noise, crime and disorder, to ensure public safety, and the protection of children from harm. But broadcast entertainment, including sport and music, is exempt - no matter where, and no matter how powerfully amplified. For the first time, private performances raising money for charity will need a licence.
    School performances open to friends and family will need a licence - they count as public performances.
    If you want to add your name to the petition (currently more than 27,000 people have joined the list), please click on the following link (it takes less than a minute)...

    http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/licensing/

    If this law is implemented, it will be disastrous for music and musicians in the UK, and will threaten to return Britain to "the land without music" that it was internationally considered to be after Cromwell's infamous ban on music.
    If you choose to sign the petition, please tell your friends so we can stop this despicably
    destructive act from coming into being.


Comments

  • #2
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    Is this genuine?

    That doesn't seem like a realistic law at all...


  • #3
    OctavarIan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭OctavarIan


    I agree with Sean. It seems pretty stupid and bizarre, and I'm sure if this was even being planned it would have gotten big media coverage because of it's enormity. If it is real though, I truly feel sorry for the British. :(


  • #4
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    As good a way to collect emails for spamming as any other, I suppose.


  • #5
    smellslikeshoes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭smellslikeshoes


    This same ****e has been coming up every six months or so for about 5 years. Like has been said its an easy way to get email addresses to send spam to.


  • #6
    Jonesy3110
    Registered Users Posts: 281 ✭✭Jonesy3110


    You have to get a license to have live music ANYWHERE. Plus, any law can be considered "burdensome".
    "Oh I would have stabbed that guy, but those damn burdensome anti-murder laws...."


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