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Article: Babyshambles gig banned ; A music festival has been cancelled after rocker Pete Doherty's band was banned from playing there next weekend.
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- Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
- Article date:
- August 20, 2008
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A music festival has been cancelled after rocker Pete Doherty's
band was banned from playing there next weekend.
Police have persuaded magistrates to ban the troubled singer's
band Babyshambles from opening the three-day Moonfest event in
Westbury, Wiltshire, on August 29, fearing there could be public
disorder.
At the end of an all-day test case earlier this week, North
Wiltshire Magistrates supported the police application to cancel the
show.
It is believed it was the first time police anywhere in the
country had used Section 160 of the Licensing Act (2003) to get a
performance stopped.
Police feared Doherty, who was recently released from prison
after a 14-week sentence for a string of ...