If one doesn't wish to offend, best check the band's politics before playing their music?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....onference-speech.html

Surely if the venue has a licence for music, persons should be allowed to play any commercial piece of music, no matter what politics they belong to?

/// 'How inappropriate. Didn't they research the political history of our band? ///

Who the 'fig' cares, and why should they, has it now come to this that Right-Wing parties are not allowed to play the 'Nasty Left's music if they want to.

But one has to ask is, why would they want to play such drivel?

[andy-hughes]

AOG - I believe you are correct in your assertion that a purchaster of copyrighted music does not need anything more than a PRS licence to play it in public - but if you are a political party and inferring that the music and the group who composed it are sympathetic to your ideals - without checking first - then you run the risk of being roundly castigated - as the Tories have been here.

Similarly, George Bush - or his staff managed to wifully ignore the sentiments of Bruce Springsteen's anti-war anthem 'Born In The USA' with similar results.

Politicians build lucrative careers from only hearing and seeing what suits them,but where rock and roll is concerned, such a cavalier attitude can, and does, come back to bit them.