Council Jobsworths anti music again

Subject: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 06:31 AM

This story without further details or name of the Council appears on today's AOL News:
A circus said that its clowns had been silenced by licensing regulations which banned them from playing their trumpets.
Zippos Circus said it was told by council officials that the show could not go on unless the clowns dropped the musical part of their act.
Sad, crazy, if true.

RtS

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 06:36 AM

Singing in the wrong choir here mate.. I think all clowns should be banned under the Geneva Convention...

Today's 'Metro' free paper (UK, London, Manchester, Birmingham) had a larger article.

LTS

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 06:46 AM

If all clowns were banned, what would we do for a government ?

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 06:58 AM

Can't lay my hands on a copy of the paper but I do remember it said they only play for about 3 minutes... and it might have been Birmingham area that complained.

LTS

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: pavane
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 08:16 AM

What if they played a hymn instead?

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: pavane
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 08:17 AM

Or a Morris dance tune

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: Snuffy
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 08:31 AM

Press Assoc. - Tuesday, September 23 12:02 am. A circus said that its clowns had been silenced by licensing regulations which banned them from playing their trumpets. Zippos Circus said it was told by council officials that the show could not go on unless the clowns dropped the musical part of their act. The circus, which is performing in Birmingham, fell foul of the Licensing Act 2003 which forbids the playing of live music without a licence.

I would have thought that the music would be exempt from licensing requirements, as it is merely incidental to the main activity.

Anyway, I bet they're not real clowns, just men dressed up in clown outfits.

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: nickp
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 08:54 AM

Birmingham - from the BBC news pages

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: Leadfingers
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 09:01 AM

The Clowns are on the Council !!

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: theleveller
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 09:46 AM

They probably think this is funny.

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: bubblyrat
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 09:53 AM

All they have to do is be like the French,and totally IGNORE anything the council says.-----I would !!

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: GUEST,Spleen Cringe
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 09:59 AM

Anyone fancy a mass, unregulated, unlicensed session outside Birmingham Town Hall? A spot of musical mayhem and acoustic anarchy?

I'm serious.

It's decisions like this that make council functionaries look like utter arseholes...

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: Harmonium Hero
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 12:25 PM

Suggested instruments: Highland bagpipes, bombardes, biniou, Chinese shawms, any sort of shawms, Tibetan trumpets, lots and lots of drums. And everyone dressed as clowns.
Slightly digressing, Snuffy's comment about men dresed as clowns reminded me of my son, as a small boy, saying "I don't really believe in the tooth fairy - I think it's just someone who can fly, dressed up".
John Kelly.

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: romany man
Date: 24 Sep 08 - 11:23 AM

OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH i love councils, burn the bloody lot of em i say, then see if the government thinks again about what we can and cant do, ooppss on me soap box again,

Subject: RE: Council Jobsworths anti music again
From: Jayto
Date: 24 Sep 08 - 11:42 AM

"Anyway, I bet they're not real clowns, just men dressed up in clown outfits. "

I liked that Snuffy. I was about to click back to the index but read the rest of the threads after reading that. I got a good laugh on a morning I needed it.
Thanks
cya