This may have been done before but I need some accurate advice on the PRS. We have run as a folk club for 19 years and this week the PRS have called and spoken with the landlord of the pub we operate in. They have insisted on a £10 per week payment for PRS from the folk club.

We are a mainly traditional (60% trad and 40% contemporary) club and book artists every other week. The non artists weeks are singers nights (open mic nights I believe our American cousins call them).

If the PRS are successful in forcing this payment we will have to close. We are non profit making and at the end of most years have an operating surplus of less than £100. To find the other £400 to pay this fee would close us.

This would create a strange dichotomy of a crowd of people promoting live music being closed down by a performing rights organisation. Everybody loses.!!

Any advice on how to deal with this would be welcome.

Spot.