Licensing - Live music statistics

[Roger Gall]

The following from Hamish Birchall http://www.livemusicforum.co.uk/

'Visit a pub and there's every chance you'll hear background Muzak, or
high-volume Sky Sports coverage of Premiership football. But what are the
chances of hearing live music?' asks Nigel Hawkes, director of the
prestigious campaign group Straight Statistics.

Hawkes considers the validity of DCMS claims about live music based on their
licensing statistics:
http://www.straightstatistics.org/article/dont-strike-band

Straight Statistics is, in its own words, '... a campaign established by
journalists and statisticians to improve the understanding and use of
statistics by government, politicians, companies, advertisers and the mass
media. By exposing bad practice and rewarding good, we aim to restore public
confidence in statistics.'
http://www.straightstatistics.org/home

Nigel Hawkes is a former Health Editor of The Times, and has written for The
Independent and other broadsheets. Straight Statistics has a board of
directors, including among them Dr Ben Goldacre, Guardian columnist and
author of Bad Science, and Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor
of the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge:
http://www.straightstatistics.org/directors-and-council

ENDS