If pub owners choose to allow live music, they can tick the box and pay not one penny extra to do so. If pub owners choose not to allow live music so don't tick the box, and then later decide they messed up, then they can choose whether to pay the extra for changing their minds.

The point is that according to our Government - the kind of social music making in pubs that we are talking about (as oposed to conventional paid performance to an audience) does not now need the owners to apply for entertainment licensing permission........A fact that the local licensing authority in Sheffield seem to have accepted. This should be received as good news - I would have thought?

Minister says jamming OK

Some of those who seem to think that we do have the right to sing or that we are not danger of beng limited even more should perhaps recognise that when they see reference to an 'unpublicised event' that this is usually just another way of saying it is an illegal one.