The Saturday List - #24 - Famous customers of Mill Hill Music Complex

As it's Saturday, I thought I'd do the day job on the blog for a change. When I first started blogging on the Barnet Times, the idea was to cover the local music scene. I must apologise, I have failed miserably in this task. I do believe that the subject needs covering and should be covered. There are many great talents and great gigs in Barnet. My new years resolution is to remedy this. Ideally I'd like a few guest bloggers to help cover the local music scene, so if you are interested, let me know. First off, a plug for a great local gig coming up soon.

28th November Val's Jam Night    Mill Hill Golf Club Clubhouse 100 Barnet Way Mill Hill NW7 3AL   Every last Wednesday of every month we invite top class professionals and amateurs to sing and play with our house band. We never know what's going to happen till it does. And when it does it never fails to give us all a great evening of improvised Jazz - just like it's supposed to be. Not only do our guest soloists accumulate on stage through the evening but they are all backed by one of the best supporting bands in the UK - Ted Beament (ex Humphrey Littleton) on keys, Steve Picking on bass and Mike Paxton on drums.

Go to the Jazz Club website...

Here is the first song I ever wrote. It is called the Mill Hill Song. It was written in 1977, back when there wasn't a pub in Mill Hill, in fact there was virtually nothing apart from an Indian restaurant, a couple of Chinese restaurants and La Catarina, if you wanted a night out.

The Mill Hill Song

Nothing to do

Nothing to see

Nothing for you

Nothing for me

Mill Hill Mill Hill

 It's Lovely

No nightspots

No dayspots

No Fun
Just Shops

Mill Hill Mill Hill 

It's Lovely

I love it!

 I have made it my lifes mission to make Mill Hill a little bit more interesting for the residents. To this end, I've organised numerous gigs, am on the Mill Hill Music Festival Organising committee and I run Mill Hill Music Complex studios. We get approx 1,000 musicians a week passing thru. People travel from all over the country to use our studios and tomorrow we

welcome punk Pioneers, The Damned in to rehearse before there tour. As it is the custom on a Saturday, I thought I'd make a list of ten of our famous customers over the years, just to give you some idea how Mill Hill has changed since 1977

1. The Damned

2. Amy Winehouse

3. Kate Nash

4. Eddie Floyd

5. David Soul

6. The Foundations

7. The Beautiful South

8. Morrissey

9. Lee Thompson, Chas Smash and Chrissie of Madness

10. Albert Lee

And a special mention to Boz Boorer and the Polecats, who were our first ever paying customers !

Mill Hill is not the only place where things are happening, Friern Barnet has also seen a rebirth with Friern Barnet library at the heart of it. Here is there newsletter.

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Attached is a general leaflet about the library to print out and share with friends and community

SAVE THE DATE!

Author Craig Phoenix will be appearing at the library 1st December 11am-1pm More ... 

Saturday 1 December 2-5pm - Friern Barnet Library, A LOVE STORY, PAST AND PRESENT - Our love libraries event - everyone welcome, please contact other libraries that are under threat and invite them to this event. Poster attached and a full timetable will be available online shortly - check for details 

EVENTS THIS WEEK:

MONDAY 26 NOVEMBER

6.00pm - 7.00pm     Monday Organisational Meeting

TUESDAY 27 NOVEMBER

7.00pm - 8.15pm     Yoga Workshop with Luana

THURSDAY 29 NOVEMBER

11.15am -11.45am     Story & Song time for pre-schoolers (run by Tanya, a pre-school teacher)
7.30 pm - 9.00 pm     Open Mic Night - all welcome to watch or participate!  Read about our previous open mic nights...

FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER
4.00 pm - 5.00 pm     French

6.30pm - 7.30pm     Yoga with Emily

Big appeal for local volunteers to come in and stand behind the desk and run your library and community centre. Two hour shifts. Now is the time for the local team to step in, step up and reclaim their library and community centre.

THE WEBSITE IS UP AND RUNNING... LINK ON YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE, TWEET - @occupiedlibrary, FORWARD VIA EMAIL, TELL THE WORLD!!

http://fbpeopleslibrary.co.uk