Thanks Richard. So you can hold a gig in a church - no problem!!

The other great loophole is entertainment on the back of a moving vehicle - otherwise they would have had to ban the whole of the Notting Hill Carnival.

So a folk club on the back of a moving lorry is OK.

But I reckon it would be hard for a council to get an "expert witness" who knew anything about folk music to testify whereas a mummers team could get dozens.