I agree with Nick on this one.Based on past experiance it is a complete waste of time and air sounding of at each other the rights and wrongs of Samual Smiths decision.Berating "someone doing there job" does nothing but send the message they are dealing with a load of unorganised bolshie rabble and this could have the opposite effect to what you are trying to achieve.

It has not been made clear why this decision has been made, but what we do know is it was made by the Chairman of the brewery.
The most sensible and responsible course of action (initially) would be for as many people as possible to contact, in writing, the Chairman of Smith's at Tadcaster asking why he has made this move.It is not a bad idea to mention the vast amount of money spent in there outlets by people such as us, but to me the most important bit of information that should be conveyed to Sam's is the amount of pleasure, FREE live music gives to people in a trouble free atmosphere - folk people are not generally known for knocking lumps of one another!

LETS KEEP MUSIC LIVE !!!!