Click to play videoBangalore: No sound of music should reach the neighbourhood when a live band is playing — that's just one of the few severe conditions imposed on live bands in Bangalore for over two years now.
And so bands like Taal and Four Seasons decided to shut shop, after a police notification in December 2005. Now, armed with a High Court order for the police to reconsider their applications, live band operators are trying to make a comeback.
President Karnataka Live Band Owners' Association, Sanjay Kochhar says, "We are telling the licensing authority to legalise it and give us a licence."
But it will be a tough task to get feet tapping again on the dance floors for the police are in no mood to agree.
Police Commissioner Achuta Rao says, "As far as we are concerned, we will see that our case not to give licenses is strengthened to the last possible limit."
But the attitude of the police not putting off live band operators. They are now trying to take advantage of a loophole in the two-year-old police notification that says discos too must get a police licence.
Sanjay Kochhar says, "Close down their illegal activities. How can discos run without a licence? This matter will come up in the Supreme Court if need be."
Live band operators are saying — either shut down discos or give us licenses. The one thing going in favour of the
Once any discotheque gets a licence, live bands can use that to get a court order in their favour. But police sources say they will try every trick in the trade to stop them because they think live bands are like dance bars and their operations may increase the crime rate.
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