[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: RE: Performance Licences
I can't see any reference to the requirement to buy tickets. Moreover, it
looks like any performance in front of audience is a licensable activity,
and audience is defined as including spectators. How many bandrooms around
the country have regular or occasional spectators, be they Friends of the
band, public or family members? At Great Yarmouth Brass and at our Youth
Band we have regular visitors sitting in. I take it then that a licence
needs to be paid for and granted to cover our rehearsals? The penalty for
the offence of performing without a licence, or for allowing such a
performance, is a jail sentence of up to 6 months or a fine of up to
£20,000, or both!
I've just been drafting a letter to two MPs; my own and my band's. (Brian,
I'll send you a copy.)
What next? A petition would be useful, but it strikes me that the best way
to demonstrate our opposition would be a march! What a spectacle it would be
for massed bands to parade up and down outside Houses of Parliament! Of
course, we couldn't do this under the new act without a licence!
Mike Thorn. Chairman, Great Yarmouth Brass Band.
www.greatyarmouthbrass.org.uk
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