There was a fair bit of hullabaloo in June about the Karnataka government's strict implementation of Licensing and Controlling of Places of Public Entertainment (Bangalore City) Order, 2005. It resulted in nearly 30 venues pulling the plug on live music. But those jitters were temporary, assures Cinema of Excess, a three-member Bengaluru-based band comprising Anirudh Ravi, Bharath Kashyap and Abheet Anand. And it hasn't dampened the spirit of the city's indie circuit, they add, ahead of a gig tonight at a SoBo venue. Edited excerpts from an interview.

How has the recent enforcement of the law regarding live music in Bengaluru affected the city's indie circuit?
To be honest, most venues were still doing shows. We played a few gigs at the time too. It was just the venues that had an issue with their licences and their occupancy certificates that were affected. It did, of course, impact the state of live music, but we believe that it was more a case of the little that we have being taken away. Everything is back to normal now, and even the previously shut venues are up and running.