The UK's Echo Festival, which went ahead under the new Temporary Events Notice (TEN) provisions of the 2003 Licensing Act, seems to have gone off without incident and indeed the follow-up report, prepared by the Head of Community Protection for the local authority, states that "There were no complaints received by the Council or the out of hours noise standby officer. 

The UK's Echo Festival, which went ahead under the new Temporary Events Notice (TEN) provisions of the 2003 Licensing Act, seems to have gone off without incident and indeed the follow-up report, prepared by the Head of Community Protection for the local authority, states that "There were no complaints received by the Council or the out of hours noise standby officer. 

"A licensing officer who lives in the locality also visited over the weekend and was unable to determine any concerns or breaches of the Temporary Events Notice. Reports from the police were that the event was quiet with no police issues at all".

Before the event, local councillors had expressed alarm that neither they nor local residents could object to the TEN and one councillor said “yet again, another example of this ridiculous legislation introduced by this Government."

But it seems that fear about the event were ungrounded. Feargal Sharkey, ex-chair of the UK's Live Music Forum, points out that the same local local authority (Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council) appear to have issued some 548 other Temporary Event Notices, all of which it would seem, took place without incident. Feargal adds that tens of thousands of TENs where issued by local authorities throughout England and Wales in the first year after they were introduced in 2005 and as far as he is aware "none of them has ever given any cause for concern."