You may have noticed from the council's letter that they have failed to answer the first question - if the session would be considered by them as Regulated Entertainment.

Howeve, the officers have answered the second question as to what their advice would be to any licensee requesting for the session to be considered under the exemption for a performance of incidental live music.

Their main requirement in a long list - is that it could take place without an audience. In their haste to block all the possible ways that this venue's session could take place - they have overlooked that a performance without an audience is a strange one and possibly not one at all.

But more importantly - that if the session could take place without an audience ( which it can ) it would not qualify as Regulated Entertainment in the first place and would have no need of the incidental exemption .......................