The only controls proposed to be lifted is the requirement for additional entertainment licensing, which is already duplication of existing planning, environmental and safety legislation.

Which, for the sake of live music, is exactly this red tape can now be safely scrapped and taken out of the hands of those who treat live music as if it were the applications for street trading and taxi licenses that they are more used to and far better equipped to deal with.

But it is interesting to see the depths, that those whose business is red tape, will descend to in order to preserve it.