I was at a pub session last night consisting of 16 musicians. Nobody else was listening to us, because the pub had holidaymakers in for meals and there wasn't enough room in the main bar, so we moved to an unused function room which we had to ourselves. (There were a couple of guys who wandered in, curious about the 6 different sets of bagpipes that were included in the line-up, but otherwise there was no audience.)

We were all buying drinks until closing time, long after the meals customers had left. The landlord would have been a fool not to appreciate that the session probably brought in 16 customers who wouldn't otherwise have been there. Unless the music actually drove people away from the pub, why would any landlord not want it?

Marje