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The Free Butt was tiny! But, no, I wouldn't put music in a micropub, but a small pub can as long as they're not daft enough to pay over the odds getting acts from agencies!

You were booking the wrong acts. Look around you can get them a LOT cheaper than that. Hell, in the early 90s I only paid 999 £200 and they were nationally known. Some pubs though, especially ones from big chains pay silly amounts. One pub in London used to book me once a month to DJ through an...

As I said, it depends HOW you do live music. If you pay bands through aganecies etc, your friend is right. To make money (depending on the size of the venue). 1) Hire it to promoters, they pay the band, they pay for the sound equipment, they take the door money and the risk. 2) If you're NOT...

What absolute nonsense. Pubs with live music make money IF they do it properly. I speak as someone who ran a part time promotions business in Brighton for several years.

No no no no! If there's morris dancing, I'm out! On a more sensible note, I'm too far away to get involved. but I'll certainly pop in for a pint or 12 when I'm in town.