"And in reply to Matt's last post, EDFSS aren't being nannyish in asking for evidence of PLI, it's to protect themselves - in case there's a claim against them for which the promoter might be partly responsible, or a claim by them against the promoter, they want to know that he has sufficient financial resources, and isn't what lawyers call a "man of straw".

That's not exactly reassuring!

It suggests to me that, on the million-to-one, once-in-a-lifetime scenario that something did indeed go wrong, and that someone was indeed seriously injured, the venue would be doing their damnedest to make sure it was the promoter's insurance that paid for it, not theirs.

All academic anyway. I'll go for either the Wilmington Arms (£100 all inc, with soundman) or the Constitution basement (all-acoustic, £50) instead.