snip.....As the Musicians Union argues, the exemption of churches, mosques, synagogues, temples and chapels does not address the main concern about the extension of licensing to cover small-scale performances in pubs and bars. It is an absurdly statist and crudely bureaucratic intrusion into our creative human rights. We suspect someone high up in the Culture Department just doesn't like folk music in pubs."


snip....Under current public entertainment licensing law, outside
London, music (only) in "a place of public religious worship or
performed as an incident of a religious meeting or service" is
exempt from needing a licence. "A place of public worship"
means only a place of public religious worship which belongs to
the Church of England or to the Church of Wales or which is for
the time being certified as required by law as a place of religious
worship. Inside Greater London, churches enjoy no exemption...


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