----- Original Message -----
From: "Dai Crowther"
Newsgroups: uk.music.folk
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: Announce Licesing Bill - Lord's Amendements

"Roger Gall" wrote in message
news:asnsom$2uq$1@helle.btinternet.com...
: Why not that the Fire/Safety inspection imposes a safe capacity on all premises?

: Agreed Roger.

I am a publican as well as being a folk performer/organiser for thirty
years or so. I have a PEL because I have live music on four nights of the week, including a folk session on a Thursday.

The above proposal is the status quo. This means that I can have a soft rock duo on a Saturday night with 150 people in the pub, no doorperson, no firedoors open (indeed the can be barred if I so wish), no need for my emergency lighting etc to be operable and free from any inspection by the council.

However, on a Thursday, with thirty or so people in the pub for the
session (including audience and casual drinkers/diners) and possibly
only a guitarist, a fiddler and a singer, I must pay a doorperson
(£10.00 per hour cheapest) to oversee that numbers in the lounge bar
does not exceed 50, check and keep fire doors and beer garden gates open and clear of obstruction, with a full first aid kit ready for use. I can have the guitarist and singer back next evening, amped up to the gills, playing to a full house with none of the above in operation.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with public safety.

Di.