I dont know if its true or not but I have been doing a karaoke night occasionally at my local, but I have had to disguise it as a singalong disco night because they have not had an entertainments licence and therefore not legally allowed a karaoke night.But tonight the landlady has told me she has been to a brewery meeting and it is now legal to have a karaoke night without an enetertainments licence.
Can any of you guys that are keyed up on this sort of thing confirm it one way or another as you all know this has been quite and restriction for years.
Cheers
CC
p.s Bases on UK rules !

if i had my way i would lock you up and through the key away :laugh: in hull you need a venue with an entertainments thingy me bob but some backwater places dont bother and a blind eye is turned the other way with the authoritties as they dont have the man power to back it up thank god for that :round: i would have been screwed a long time ago and i havent been screwed yet did i just say that :laugh: ring soon let me no how you are noing you your on holliday again :wavey:

if i had my way i would lock you up and through the key away :laugh: in hull you need a venue with an entertainments thingy me bob but some backwater places dont bother and a blind eye is turned the other way with the authoritties as they dont have the man power to back it up thank god for that :round: i would have been screwed a long time ago and i havent been screwed yet did i just say that :laugh: ring soon let me no how you are doing your on holliday again i bet :wavey:

"Locked up an throw the key away"***i COULD DO WITH A BL**DY REST.
Anyway hope you are well,How did you know I was going on holiday soon ?
I just actually booked for a cheapy over to spain on Oct 2nd for a week so I might set upon some oke bars and give it some welly.
Anyone know any karaoke bars in Loret de ma ?
Cheers
CC

Right !, lets get this into perspective!.
The Boozer / Pub/ Club, needs a Performing Rights Society Licence, the cost of which is calculated on the Square Listening area, and also by the number of peaople the venue can safely hold.
My mate has only this week been nabbed by the PRS for not holding a licence ,and the guy promply left after an hour with a £1,800 + Vat cheque in his back pocket !!!!.
We ( DJ's) can now purchase a Digital PPL Licence for the princely sum of £250 + vat ( for 12 months)this entitles you to LEGALLY download MP3s , and/or Transpose the tracks from vynl, cd,tape into mp3 and put them on a hard drive and use them for our disco's.
the amount you can have on a drive (total) is 20,000 tracks.
I believe i a right in saying that, THIS DOES NOT COVER KARAOKE !!!.
So the question is WHAT THE HELL LICENCE DOES !!!!.
Answers/Info , please , Guys !!.

As a PS , to the original post, if you play ANY music of any sort in a Public House or Club , or even a Shop! ,you have to have a PRS Licence, even if it is only background/wallpaper Music you are playing,
and......... i dare anyone to tell me any different!!!!.
Details of the Licence can be Found from off the "Mastermix" Site
www.mastermixdj.com
LICENCE FAQ

hummm a very interesting subject will look in to this more


ps wher are you captain casein england or scotland as the laws differ sum

I am in north wales but the the land lady in the local is absolutly convinced you no longer need an entertainments licence for karaoke and this has only changed recently.
So any feed back from anyone or any info would be appreciated.
Cheers
cc

This may help!
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/living/entertainment,%20news%20and%20what's%20on/Public%20entertainment%20licensing/Licensing%20Act%202003%20-%20frequently%20asked%20questions/page.aspx?style=.
(copy and paste into browser)

As far as i read it , it basically says that if you don't have pemission for karaoke or any other form of entertainment now, you still have to apply, the new license just does away with the different types of license and incorporates everything under one premises license. unless you read it differently in which case let me know lol.

Steve

I think you will find that what you are talking about is the Licence for the premises, this comes under a different licence from what i talked about in my earlier post.
The crunch comes down to the DJ who is also in the premises, to ensure that he/she has a PPL Licence to play HIS/HER music, even if the premises is only playing a radio in the bar (as background music) ,they still have to have a PERFORMING RIGHTS LICENCE, usually Companies who rent out a jukebox to the landlord, automatically cover the premises.
But this would have to be clarified at the point of rental by the owner/landlord.
The performing rights licence covers the copyright of playing music, in any public situation.
Anymore info you guys can input, will help all of us to understand what is, a nightmare minefield !.

My response was to answer capt c's question, this link may explain more regarding ceejays question http://www.ppluk.com/
follow the other links regarding digital dj license

*apologies to anyone who read this before i edited it lol.*

the link above still in my opinion leaves a lot of grey areas

I have been round for a while doing the music thing in one way shape or form, and basically as I see the jukebox licence covers obviosly jukebox / music background / disco.s and solo & duo,not karaoke, but a live entertainments licence covers everything mentioned above and live bands (i.e more than two people)and karaoke. but i believe the licence change now moves karaoke into the basic licence for jukeboxes etc,which most pubs and clubs have anyway.****I may be wrong on this hence this thread.
More feed back please
Cheers
cc

I've got the manager of one of the pubs i do who is going to try find out off the brewery exactly the situation and will be getting back to me on monday so hopefully i may be able to to shed more light then lol.

Just another thingl, did anyone know they may need a license for their radio mics lol http://www.handheldaudio.co.uk/pages/faq_se.asp