It's stupid law, but like a lot of stupid laws, most of the time they get ignored. And of course you should break stupid laws on principle, it's the only way they get eroded or changed. And until they get changed they can always suddenly get reactuivated uin an arbitrary and ioppressive way. (Which in itself means they are probably illegal under human rights provisions.) So it's important to get them changed.

However the main threat to live music in pubs isn't the law, it's canned music. Especially when it's the tape behind the bar, not even a juke box. Now a law banning that without a special licence, I could sympathise with that.

Still, I'd remind the liberty loving Americans that at least you can get a legal drink in a pub here from the age of 18, which I understand isn't true in all places, even when you are American royalty. (Mind there are times I think it'd be brilliant if they raised the drinking age here to 30 or 40...)

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Anyone going along to the London action on 19th? All my regular playmates are tied up with other things, it being a work day.