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Monday, March 05, 2007
Music Petition
I received the below email from a friend this morning. It certainly looks like a petition worth signing, and these days the Prime Minister usually responds personally to all those who sign a petition on the government website with a full explanation of the way we'll be moving forward on a given issue. Being involved in music on a daily basis myself, I'm very much against any action that 'inhibits the central role' music making has in our lives, so will certainly be signing it and await the PM's answer on this matter.
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MUSIC PETITION
There is a government move afoot to make it very difficult for musicians to perform live in small venues, or for schools, pubs and charities to raise money for causes through musical events. The proposed new legislation will inhibit the central role music making has in our lives and communities.
If you circulate this to your friends, all each person has to do is go to the government's petitions website below, give your name, email and address - it takes about 30 seconds.
Success could make a vital difference to the nurturing of community music making, and enabling young musicians to find their feet in the performing world.
The live music/licensing e-petition now has over 33,000 signatures. It currently stands at no.5 in the list of petitions on the Number 10 site. - and there are three more months in which people can sign.
But the petition needs to do much better to make an impression on ministers, and to encourage DCMS to implement music-friendly amendments. Please click on this link to sign :-
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/licensing/
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MUSIC PETITION
There is a government move afoot to make it very difficult for musicians to perform live in small venues, or for schools, pubs and charities to raise money for causes through musical events. The proposed new legislation will inhibit the central role music making has in our lives and communities.
If you circulate this to your friends, all each person has to do is go to the government's petitions website below, give your name, email and address - it takes about 30 seconds.
Success could make a vital difference to the nurturing of community music making, and enabling young musicians to find their feet in the performing world.
The live music/licensing e-petition now has over 33,000 signatures. It currently stands at no.5 in the list of petitions on the Number 10 site. - and there are three more months in which people can sign.
But the petition needs to do much better to make an impression on ministers, and to encourage DCMS to implement music-friendly amendments. Please click on this link to sign :-
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/licensing/
