There was a snippet in the paper the other day indicating that it is now expected that some parts of the licencing law will not be coming into effect after all. Of course that probably won't mean the bits we are worried about as musicians. But they're starting to think they've gone a bit far in liberalising drinking hours and that.

You'd really think they'd have thought out that kind of stuff when they were legislating?   Well, no you wouldn't actually - I think the cock up over the music end of the bill wasn't an exception, it was just that it was more obvious because it was about something we were specially interested in.