Just what has this Government got against acoustic folk music?

Howells in The Stage.

I realise that some people believe a licence should not be required for unamplified music as existing legislation provides sufficient safeguards. However, I do not accept that certain types of music, such as acoustic folk music, are never noisy and should therefore be excluded from the new regime.

If a concert of this "acoustic folk music" is not to be excluded from the new licensing regime, how is is this to be possible, If this concert should be held in a place of public religious worship?

Where the Government now consider there to be no "issues of nuisance, public safety and crime and disorder" and which exempts "secular entertainment provided in places of public religious worship and the provision of entertainment facilities in such places from the need to obtain a licence under the Bill when it is enacted.