Anyone who has read the Live Music Forum's report would know that the piece presented to the Committee was very carefully selected by the Licensing Manager, as supporting their position (that any form of advertising meant that an event was a licensable peformance of live music that could not benefit from the incidental exemption) as there were very few other findings in this report which they could claim to be favourable.

And of course such an interpretation is not supported by the 'new' Guidance. Both the advertising in the example provided in the Live Music Forum report and in the case of the single local paper advert for the Cove House Inn session (as they did not contain a named performer) would not prevent these events from qualifying under the exemption.

But getting my Licensing Authority to sensibly enforce this legislation seems beyond the power of Government Ministers, who don't appear to really care very much anyway. I suggest that ensuring that mine and other Licensing Authorities do sensibly enforce this legislation is up to those of us who do care.