A draconian new law, requiring clubs and venues to fill out a form known as 'Form 696' asks them to detail the type of music played and the most likely ethnic make up of the crowd. It is being used by the police to cancel, shut down and police club nights in London which can easily be seen as discrimination against urban music and especially the black music scene in London. I call bullshit!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jan/21/police-form-696-garage-music

The form requires the address and name of every performer (and their aliases) making it nigh on impossible to have open mic nights, freestyles and other inclusive/open forms of music.]

Sign the petition here:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Scrapthe696/