That is the difficulty. There is no real will on my part to stop any form of live music (where there are no good reasons to do so). It is really still unclear if a succession of less than two different performers is in fact illegal and there is only a matter of months in which to try and establish something that will then be of academic interest only.   

I will probably carry on - if only to emmbarrass the council's officers and try and establish the position for open mics, sessions etc - in premises without entertainment permission - as from November. For it looks as if these will be in the majority.

But it is maddening when these people have been responisible for preventing long-running acoustic sessions - for no good reason locally - but now seem to wish to place themselves at risk - in order to ensure that these non-licensed amplified events continue.

The issue is not amplification or noise but simply that the officers are now prepared to take these licensee's word that no more than two 'performers' are involved - when they were not prepared to do this for sessions when no amplification was involved. I have asked if the sessions they prevented can now legally re-start - but this request was ignored.