The way we get around "Public Liability" is by joining the Musician's Union or Equity both offer "free" public liability to the sum of £5,000,000 to members and as membership works out at just over a £1.00 a week it's a good investment especially when you have all the other membership advantages.

Re. local bye-laws not much can be done unless enough people lobby their councils!! and that's presuming the general public want buskers!!

I was playing for a Morris team at the weekend and the amount of paper work required to allow them to dance and us to play was ridiculous!! and this was in a country village where Morris and country dancing in the square goes back as far as the village!!!

Also the old tradition of the Landlord of the pub bringing out a tray of drinks for the dancers and musicians has gone now due to local bye-laws banning the drinking of alcohol on the streets! How many more traditions are we going to loose?

We'll have to have a mass busking, Morris dancing day when everyone takes to the streets - dancing and singing - they can't arrest us all - or can they??????

Take care

Pete