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The Live Music Forum Downing Street Petition Party (Photo by Anderson Photography)
Left to right - Lord Clement-Jones, John Whittingdale MP, John Otway, Phil Little, Hamish Birchall, Tom Kiehl, Lord Colwyn.
The Live Music Forum AchievementsThe LMF is responsible for the Live Music Events petition, which received 16,949 signatures. The LMF exposed the DCMS Statistics scandal. The LMF played a large part in bringing about the Labour U-turn on licensing. The LMF networked with live music campaigners in Australia and introduced the idea of a small gigs exemption to the UK. The LMF secured a statement from the Police that they do not, in principle, associate live music with public disorder. The LMF are responsible for calling to account the LGA over discriminative practice against live music. The LMF established there is no evidence to support an association between live music and public disorder. The LMF are providing evidence of damage caused to small venues and festivals by the Licensing Act 2003. |
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WelcomeNews - Hamish Birchall reveals the extent of the damage done by the Licensing Act in Licensing Act - live music harm revealed. On Wednesday 7th July Lord Clement-Jones new Live Music Bill received it's first reading in the House Of Lords. Hamish Birchall details changes in - Revamped live music bill launched today. See Also, Live music petition delivered to Number 10. Venues - A brand new page dedicated to the stories of live music venues that have suffered the wrath of various Licensing Departments. Also, a growing list of Small Festivals that have bitten the dust or are suffering licensing issues. You can link to this page at, http://www.livemusicforum.co.uk/lmfvenues.htm Download the Welwyn Hatfield Live Music Forum's comments on the DCMS "Live Music: An Analysis of the Sector" (pdf file) from our new Documents page. WHLMF list numerous false claims and instances of “cherry-picked” statistics. Keep Live Music !!!! Phil Little August 2010 Facebook - The Live Music Forum Group Page
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The Original Live Music ForumThis Live Music Forum was established in 1993 when it launched a campaign to press for a review of the laws restricting live music in England and Wales. The post 1997 Government responded by implementing legislation which represented a death blow to many forms of live music in pubs, restaurants and outdoor events. The laws mean that most, if not all, solo and duo performances have to be licensed under the current regime. So now, tens of thousands of small pubs no longer have any form of live music. No piano in the pub on a Sunday, no sing alongs, no New Years Eve's knees ups. Now we are waiting for reforms promised in the manifestos of both Conservative and Liberal Democrat. The Live Music Forum website includes frequent news bulletins from Hamish Birchall, who has lobbied the live music cause in both the House of Commons and The House of Lords over the last ten years. His bulletins are accurate and factual. The information contained in the 300' odd documents archived here represents six years reporting on the implementation of the licensing act and our opposition to it. The archive forms the only accurate history of the entire licensing affair, available to the public. Use the Search facility to find out just what has been going on the last seven years. The battle to save live music is here. Become aware so that you can discuss and argue the case for live music. Welwyn and Hatfield Live Music Forum have produced a detailed and telling analysis of unreliable statistics on live music put forward by the Department of Culture Media and Sport. These statistics are meant to give the impression that live music is faring better than it is. These discredited statistics have already had great influence and are being used by Local Government agencies to support their case for even stricter control over live music. Problems such as those reviewed on our Venues page used to be confined to England and Wales. But, last year Scotland received its own Licensing Act and in the next couple of years you can expect the same kind of effect there as has happened in England and Wales since 2003. PL
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