(Any conflict that's you want to win that is, Russ. If you're just playing games, just annoying people can be fun. If you want to win the only point of annoying people is when it weakens them, which it can do, or when it is a way of getting other people involved on your side. That was true in the 60s, and it's true now.)

The legal restrictions apply to any public place. So in your living room, no problem. In a coffee bar, or any other public building, you need a PEL. And most of these places won't have a PEL.

Like any silly law, much of the time it isn't enforced, but it's there as a threat. And here is a thread,Killed by the PEL system where there are a number of cases posted where sessions have been stopped because of this. It could be the healthy little session that's been going for years in a pub down your way. Snuffed out just like that.

It's happened twice within the course of a year to well established sessions within a few miles of where I live, in two different districts

in different counties. If it hasn't happened down your way, you've been lucky, but don't count on your luck lasting.

And on top of that God knows how many places (not just pubs) have snuffed out sessions in advance. Ask if you can play some music, and more than likely you get told "Sorry, we haven't got a licence for that." (And even if that's not the reason formally given, it'll be one of the reasons in the mind of the proprietor all right.)

And as anybody who has been following this, on the present plans of the government, it's likely that it won't be legal even to have a single person play or sing in a pub, or in any other place open to the public, unless it's got a licence specifically for this.