I fully support composers getting paid for their work. To be truthful I owe them a lot more than the piddling little amounts that find their way through PRS for the privilege of singing their songs at singarounds from time to time.

However the PRS price list is more than crude and inefficient. Pubs get the highest charges per capita in the price list, why? I suspect because they are easy targets for the PRS, the way they operate means that in most cases individual pubs are dealing with the licence and PRS can scare individual landlords into submission.

The solution is simple, we all move to community halls, which do pay an low annual fee to PRS so the extra cost of your singaround/session/open mike is £0.00.