read this! new licensing laws!

[filthydave]

think everyone should read this
sorry about the link but i haven't the time to write it all out

sign the petition its important!


http://www.overloadmedia.co.uk/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3367

[invisibleplanet]

done

[owain_k]

This is no joke, believe!

I have already emailed my MP about this some time ago and he has already taken the issue up for me....

[carbonizedeyesockets]

I thought this was a joke but after reading about it I realise that it is anything but.This is a serious fucking pisstake, I mean I know the government tax anything that moves but how the FUCK do they expect to get away with this??? They can't expect anyone who plays music or even records to an audience to actually buy a licence to do this. Scarier still is that you may need to apply rather than just buy one so you may be turned down. What if a musician/dj from another country comes over?what then?? what about buskers??
Maybe I'm making too much of this but its done my head right in..Fuck this fucking country..

[carbonizedeyesockets]

I guess they missed the point that all this money they expect to make is going to be spent ten times over keeping us all in prison when we don't pay.. Who's up for a jam inside..lol

[Lady E]

well i signed it.fucking hell basically
as someone pointed out on overload, it is unworkable, but i really cant see why they are doing it?

are you sure individual performers have to be licensed though, i didnt get that bit

[invisibleplanet]

some bkgd information

http://www.folk-network.com/info/pel.html - the information llinks at the bottom of this page provide useful bkgd information, including the site: http://www.faxyourmp.com (provide your postcode)
and also the full text of the legislation.

[owain_k]

Indeed, deadly serious !

My MP wrote to me saying he will forward me the minutes from a meeting he attended with Kim Howells (culture secretary) as soon as they are published.....seems there is quite a bit of commotion about this already!

Whoever has worded the initial document has made a real "pigs ear" of it....apparently, certain parts of the bill are in direct violation of the human rights convention (probably something to do with freedom of expression laws to which the UK government is a signatory).

[CHIP TRONIC]

insane in the membraine..

LOL

it´s always the government. it is so poor . it needs our money.
it hates arts and music.

lol

[invisibleplanet]

b. Thomas Jones Woodward, 7 June 1940, Pontypridd, Mid-Glamorgan, Wales

TOM JONES IS FROM PONTYPRIDD!!

email: tomjones@tomjones.com

I've written to him at his official site, which seems to be out of action at the moment, and I'm hoping he will lend support

[pille'ocheoni]

she's a lady..eh....wo...wo.....wo.... she's a lady...talking bout...she's a lady......wo.....wo......wo... ..she's a lady....and she's mine!

[Sheridan]

hahah! fucking nice one pille'.
do you throw your undies at him when you see him in concert??:)


"whats up pussy cat? whoa whoa whoooa whoa whoa"

[CV]

That is so rubbish ... I think DJ Rubbish may be able to knock out an entire new album on the subject...

Soon , we're gonna need a license to apply for a license , like here in Spain! - and all of that generates income for the council / government - but at least the fags and beer are cheap over (basic working mans fuckin right)

[operator]

i signed it a while ago. it's not effective in scotland, so come up and play here :!

it doesn't make any kind of rational sense, does it.

bunch of claret drinking motherfuckers. i say tax bloated S&M loving MP's. they spend on a week's lunch what i make in a year stealing car stereos.
wheres the justice in that?