What I can't figure out, and I've tried to follow this thing, is why it is such a big deal to not have live music in the Pubs? Our little town of about 10,000 has a Saturday night Folk music at one of the little coffee shops, there is a group in town that brings in folkies, and one of the bars (Pub for others) has mostly folk style music. I'm not sure the musicians even pay taxes on what they make there - most likely not enough to pay on -

Steve