So where can you play music (UK)?

Subject: RE: So where can you play music (UK)?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 02:45 PM

I wonder if the copper said "Vas mackem-zie?"

Subject: RE: So where can you play music (UK)?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 01:20 PM

You're right, LF. Still - well done, Sunderland police force! I am sure the citizens feel safer now...

Subject: RE: So where can you play music (UK)?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 12:36 PM

Any Busker who gets 'done' three times in a week in the same place has to be pushing his luck ! IF his object is to point out the silly
laws regarding Music in Britain , Good Luck to him . IF on the other hand he refused to 'move on' when asked , and carried on playing in order to make money from the passing public , I have very little sympathy . A difficult judgement to make without full knowledge of all the facts .

Subject: So where can you play music (UK)?
From: Bainbo
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 08:29 AM

You can't play in the pubs. And you can't play on the streets.

This from tomorrow's Sunderland Echo (don't ask - I've got contacts):

A GERMAN busker has been back to court to face charges of playing his bagpipes without a licence.

Gert Genisser, who has been performing for Sunderland shoppers for more than a decade, has vowed to fight what he calls unjust laws which prevent entertainers from earning a crust on the streets.

The travelling musician faces three charges relating to playing his Spanish bagpipes, which he does in numerous places across the country to fund his nomadic lifestyle.

He has pleaded not guilty to busking without a licence in Crowtree Road on August 6.

He has also denied a charge of causing harassment on August 8, and a breach of the peace on the following day.

A two-day trial has been fixed to start on February 16.

Originally from the Black Forest region of Germany, Mr Genisser used to live in Teepee Valley, a village of teepees on a Welsh farm, and has a 22-year-old daughter who was born in a cave.

The 43-year-old is now based in Morecambe, Lancashire, and travels Europe in his camper van, which he parks in Roker when on Wearside.