Form 696: Policing live music
Published:
November 21, 2008 13:43
by
Safe My Arse.
Neighbourhoods:
Venues must supply police with personal info. of performers and likely audience (inc. ethnic background) for event license.
Article in the Independent today:
"The police say they need the information demanded on Form 696, which runs to eight pages, so they can pinpoint which acts and venues attract troublemakers, and make sure venues are safe."
This is what the form looks like:
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Ms
Published: January 26, 2009 16:36
by
Cathryn Symons
I see that the form is no longer available on the link given.
By the way, to the first poster, the point is hardly that you don't like the music! If it happens to garage today, why not the Barbican tomorrow?
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Mr
I have read the form and unless it has been edited on the website it appears to be only 4 pages, not 8. But that's perhaps pedantic.
Would you be as alarmed if these forms were required to be filled in for, say, a concert of chamber music performed by a German or English string quartet?
I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone wants their hearing ruined by such a musically-impoverished repertoire. It makes up for being so unmusical be being played so loud. Can't you realise how you're being conned? It's like paying a fortune for what you think is a great car when in relality it has no engine.
All you need to know musically is the equivalent of 'the cat sat on the mat' to perform it, and a willingness to be taken to be a listener.
Get out there and start listening to something of musical value for a change!
If it takes these forms to discourange this trash from being performed/played and to be the catalyst for you lot to go out and demand something better then I'm all for it.
Even though deep down I do believe that since no-one stood up to the smoking ban the Government is now on a roller coaster to dicate what the hell it likes.
But you asked for it.