If only......

Perhaps the Publican could be asked to explain how this works with the Cove/New Star situation? These customers playing instruments to 'entertain themselves' are not currently prevented because of Entertainment Facilities but because they are judged to be performances (to an audience) of Regulated Entertainment.

This is ironic as when it is participatory sport which the public are entertaining themselves with, this is not judged to be Regulated Entertainment. But the very activity that Entertainment Facilities was introduced to catch (because the act of the public entertaining themselves in music and dance is NOT Regulated Entertainment) is being caught here as Regulated Entertainment. [ I hope that makes sense]

The proposed changes still mean that any facility (except instruments but including the premises themselves) which are provided for the public to entertain themselves in music or dance is a licensable entertainment facility.

So even if I could persuade my council that the sessions were not Regulated Entertainment, as the premises have been provided for the public to entertain themselves in music (or dance), the premises would still be licensable as an entertainment facility. Even if we entertained ourselves around a provided non-amplified piano.