Spot, if you're booking ppl to come and play, that is on rather a commercial basis. Presumably you pay the acts you've booked. How many ppl do you usually have coming to your club on guest act nights and singer nights? If there's 20 ppl there, that's only 50p each which isn't a big deal!

It's a big more scary for small clubs. Many of us confirmed amateurs play in clubs of maybe a dozen or so active performers, meeting once a month in a pub and playing the "standards". We're happy bcos we've got somewhere to play together, and the landlord's happy donating electricity for the amps cos we drink his beer, and the only money that changes hands is over the bar. The fact that we technically need a license to sing "Streets of London" or similar stuff together at the end of the evening is worrying. If you're making money off it, then fine, but PRS's website makes no mention of exemption for non-profit-making (or even non-charging) venues.

Graham.