Chris has welcomed calls to scrap the Metropolitan Police’s Form 696 which requires organisers to fill in a police form a fortnight in advance of any live music event.
He said: ‘This form has troubled me for some time. I am glad that it has not spread outside the Metropolitan Police area but it remains an affront to civil liberties. It is undoubtedly potentially racist and a brake on the development of live music.’
For more details see the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/30/form-696-ehrc-discrimination-music