All live music, in all venues and at all times is not an automatic source of noise pollution.

The bottom line is that all though the above is true - (most of) those employed to locally enforce licensing legislation will consider that where live music is prevented or limited, in advance of a note being sounded, by the requirement for additional entertainment licensing - that this is will be a perfectly acceptable way of avoiding noise pollution and that they will have done their job...........

Meanwhile those of us who still manage to find venues to play non-amplified traditional folk tunes - will only be allowed when subject to binding condition which impose noise limiters and require the music to end before the venues finishes serving alcohol.