The unfair thing is that no matter what music is performed at the venue the fee of ... say £300 is divided up amongst the current most performed composers nationwide. This % is estimated from field officer's returns from random samples of music played up and down the country. I know this because we regularly have samples taken at one of our clubs. So if the venue plays all public domain music then Paul McCartney and the other ultra-rich fat cats are guaramteed a % of money paid by that venue! There was a case several years ago when Bono challenged the PRS for chargeing his band U2 several £1000s, on the grounds that they were performing all self penned material and by the time the PRS royalty came back to him from that gig it was less than 1% of what they had paid! The reason for this was COSTS - also did you know that PRS is a registered charity!!!