I'm not so much suggesting that we will find legal ways round the law, though we will, but rather that we will go on breaking it, but maybe it will have to be in different ways.

One thing that occurs to me is that people have been lamenting how legal late-night opening of pubs means that the old tradition of the illegal lock-in will die. But the ban on live music could give it a reason to survive, in some pubs anyway. Musical lock-ins.