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United Kingdom Talk Video Thursday 17th November 2009

Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURENT TV... more

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United Kingdom Talk Video Tuesday 10th November 2009

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United Kingdom Talk Video Thursday 5th November 2009

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United Kingdom Talk Video Tuesday 3rd November 2009

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United Kingdom Talk Video Tuesday 20th October 2009

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Time for lunch, kids; to the pub!

Stoke Bruerne Primary School sends its 39 pupils out if school everyday in order to... more

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Knees Up Mother Brown - Mitzi TV

Mitzi TV go for a right old knees-up at a proper authentic English "local", The Duke... more

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Pick up post from your local pub

If you've ever needed a good excuse to go to your local pub, you can now say you're... more

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Everybody Dance Now! - Mitzi TV

Mitzi TV venture into Central London to meet up with the Westminster Morris Men, a... more

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Woman awarded £18k after tripping in stilettos whilst drinking, smoking

What is this, sue-happy America? Selena Gilder, 40, has been awarded £18,000 in... more

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Why Music Is Disappearing In Britain

"You are in a pub, having a good time, and someone walks in with a guitar, drink flows, and the crowd starts singing some old number like, say, "I Fought the Law (And the Law Won)". Before the evening is out, the poor publican could be fighting the law, and the law will win again.

Live music is fast disappearing from pubs, clubs, wine bars, restaurants and other small venues, musicians claim, because of a law passed in 2003, when the Government was trying to eliminate teenage violence that they associated with badly organised music events.

Hopes were raised recently when the Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport ended a lengthy investigation into the 2003 Licensing Act by recommending that venues with a capacity of fewer than 200 people should be exempt.

In London, which has perhaps the most vibrant live music scene of all, there is the additional hazard of form 696, compiled by Scotland Yard, which some people suspect is a deliberate device for suppressing the forms of music that black and Asian teenagers enjoy – dubstep, hip hop, ragga, and the rest.

"It's in the interest of the powers-that-be to shut these people up," Jon McClure, lead singer of Reverend and the Makers, claims. "It's not about knife crime, it's about stopping certain forms of music that they don't want to be there."

Lowkey, a British-Iraqi rapper, added: "I've seen it doing the clubs. On a night when they are expecting the white audience, there will be one bouncer on the door. On the next night, when there is a black audience, there will be bouncers everywhere, metal detectors, you have to show your passport and give your address. that kind of thing. They just assume that where there is a lot of brown people, there is going to be violence."

"These issues exist, but it's quite patronising to put so much emphasis on music as a catalyst. What they should address before that is the booze culture and the culture in the record industry of exploitation that glamorises violence."

But Mr Bradshaw said that his department "has considered exemptions for small venues, but has not been able to reach agreement on exemptions that will deliver an increase in live music whilst still retaining essential protections for local residents".

"There is no direct link between size of audience or number of performers and potential for noise nuisance or disorder," he claimed.""You are in a pub, having a good time, and someone walks in with a guitar, drink... more