I think maybe the best way of protesting about this issue is going to play in as many pubs, clubs, shops and cafes etc as possible and actually entertaining people.

Hopefully this will result in getting thrown out a few times, so a few more people might begin to realise how stupid and irrational the legislation has become. Particularly if these performers were to hand out leaflets on the issue as they were led to the door. Be nice if some 'popular names' involved.

I am reminded of a vist to Hamburg, where a quartet of music students were busking in a 'nice' shopping area. The polizi were called to move them on by a shopkeeper. The Polizi were then themselves asked to move on by a group of middle aged hausfrau who were enjoying the music and demanded that the quartet be allowed to continue. The Polizi knew when they were beaten.   

Ministers demonstrating themselves to be ignorant or misinformed pratts is hardly news. Frankly its what we've come to expect of them, particularly when it comes to indegenous, ethnic, "f word" music or indeed most art forms.   

In the old adage if you want to communicate "Show, don't tell"

SM