It could well have been written by Gilbert/Sulivan.   Have e-mailed those parliamentarians concerned that the Government amendment is both pointless and misses the point in one go. If you have an entertainments licence in the first place...off you go.   The whole point is that there will be so few of them because licensees fear to add the relevant tick box, all the neighbours will think of boom boom at 2 am. Its hardly the licensees place to carefully explain the difference between unamplied or even amplified jazz and heavy rock.

Why the governmnt is so instistent on these provisions as British Soliders die in Iraq, Blair having read a 10 year old thesis from a student as a justification for war, I will never know. I have read every word of the debates and never yet come across anything that says "now I see".