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Thu, 22 Jan 2009 Petition to Save Live Music in UK Dear Music Lovers Please take the time to sign this petition, (link below) before Jan 23rd. This is an urgent call!! Please read, sign and pass it on to everyone in your address book, especially all UK citizens who have a right to sign the petition. Thanks all Crystal & Yvan Raison D'Etre Music Lover Collective London It has been brought to our attention that new noise legislation is about to be introduced that is likely to virtually destroy live music in the UK. The government wish to consider it a legal requirement in the new tax year to introduce laws insisting anyone applying or re-applying for an entertainment licence must have a noise control device fitted to the venue. This will be the final nail in the coffin for pretty much ALL entertainment in the UK as the level at which these devices cut the power off is ridiculously low. In our experience any venue that has one in use cannot have any electric music as the power is constantly being cut mid-song - and even loud applause at the end of a song can cut it.As an example - The sound pressure at a Royal Philharmonic Orchestra concert can be more than some rock bands and is enough to turn the electricity off. How are their electronic devices going to cope. By cheating like everyone else? The regulation of these limiters will come under the control of local councils who are stretched enough trying to manage the governments draconian laws brought into place to destroy the pub and leisure industry. Enough is enough. Venues are suffering enough as it is without being forced to go to the expense of fitting one of these damned things. Noise limiters are a menace to live music. NOTE: You may also be aware that promoters of live music might soon have to fill in an 8 page document for each concert they promote outlining each musician's full details from their ethnicity onwards. Whatever happened to the notion of art as being a free expression of creativity? Please sign the petition! And pass it on! PLEASE DO NOT INTRODUCE THIS LAW, WE LOVE LIVE MUSIC! PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION HERE: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/NoNoiseControl/ Link NOTE: WE HAVE UNTIL 23rd JANUARY TO SIGN THE PETITION!!!! [] permanent link