Your invitation to join the Our Barnet Community Choir - Join us for a day in the recording studio

Do you love singing? Do you love your community? Do you want to make a difference?

Now is your chance. We are looking to start the "Our Barnet Community Choir". Who says the devil has all of the best tunes. We will be holding a rehearsal and recording session on Saturday 30th November at Mill Hill Music Complex (Click Here for Directions)

Local Disabled rights campaigner John Sullivan has written a reworked version of the song Sixteen Tons by Tenessee Earl Ford

Have a listen to this. If you think you could handle the melody and learn the lyrics, then come on down on Saturday at 2pm. If you fancy yourself as a bit of a singer, why not come down and take part. To cover the cost of the studio and to pay for some refreshments, we are asking for a £5 donation (although this is not compulsory). It is a great chance to experience a commercial recording studio in operation. We are especially keen to have choir members who have been affected by the cuts and have a story to tell, so members from the disabled community and other affected residents are more than welcome.

If you are a male Bass voice or a female soprano, you will be welcome. We are particularly looking for singers to join in on the Chorus. If you are a budding choirmaster get in touch as we are looking for someone to take the Our Barnet Community Choir forward. It will be a lot of fun and we are videoing the recording session. Who knows, we may even get the choir to do an Xmas performance outside the Town Hall.

The 16 Mill

In Barnet Capita have taken control,

 They now control the residents body and soul

For many of us it's been  a bitter pill,

 To be forced out of  Barnet into Capitaville

Chorus

They hand over 16mil an what do you get.

Silence from  Tories and deeper in debt

St Peter don't you call us cos we can't go

They sold our soul  to the Capita Store.

Before the contract signing Capita were going to pay

But after the signing its gone the other way.

Capita were supposed to invest the mils

But now Barnet residents, are footing the bills.

Chorus

They hand over 16 mil an what do you get

Silence from Tories, and deeper in debt

St Peter don't you call us cos we can't go

They sold our soul to the Capita store.

The contract was hidden where the sun doesn't shine

Not read by Cornelius before he chose to sign

Now councillors are silent about our 16mil

They have recently  invested in Capitaville.

Chorus

They hand over 16 mil an what do you get

Silence from the Tories and deeper in debt

St Peter don't you call us cos we can't go

They sold our soul to the Capita store.

No consultation with Barnet residents

Has led to wide spread discontent.

And now we have to swallow another bitter pill

Cos their aint no questions allowed  in Capitaville

Chorus

They hand over 16 mil an what do you get

Silence from the Tories and deeper in debt

St Peter don't you call us cos we can't go

They sold our soul, to the Capita store

If you see Capita coming better step aside.

A lot of services didn't and those services died

They have fists of iron to enforce their deal

And if the right one don't deprive you then the left one will

Chorus

They hand over 16mil an what do you get

Silence from Tories,  and deeper in debt

St Peter dont you call us cos we can't go

They so-----ld  our so----ul to the Capita store.