Party Licences to be Scrapped
One of NuLabor’s most disastrous pieces of legislation was the need for a council licence where any music was played.
It is all described here in the Sunday Times. One classic ruling means that a carol concert in a church doesn’t need a licence, but one in the church hall next door does.
This is perhaps the best bit of the article.
In one notorious ruling, the Tate Britain gallery was told it had to obtain a licence for an exhibition by the Turner prize winner Susan Philipsz because it featured a recording of her singing a Scottish folk song.
Hopefully things will get better and create more and better music and other venues. Obviously, there is the noise and alcohol nuisance problem, but that should be handled with other unconnected legislation. You could argue that you get more of the latter, for a Cup Final shown live on a big screen in a pub, than say a folk concert in the same venue.
The Anonymous Widower 
I agree, it is ridiculous. I remember getting a lot of requests for “film evenings” for hospital patients, mostly the ones who were in a very low dependency “hostel” type ward, because they lived 100ish miles away and needed higly specialised daily treatment. But we couldnt because of licencing laws
Comment by liz | May 15, 2011 |
It’s that thought of thing they want to make easier.
Comment by AnonW | May 15, 2011 |