Showing posts with label Barnet Culture Round Up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barnet Culture Round Up. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 November 2022

The Wednesday Poem - Please Myself & The Barnet Cultural Round Up

Wednesday is the day when we focus on the cultural life of the Borough of Barnet. We give you our pick of forthcoming events etc. But before that we love to publish a poem on a Wednesday. I've just acquired a new CD player, my old one broke down before lock down. I've been playing some old CDs and cathcing up with some old songs by my band. I'd forgotten just how good some sounded. The numbers we are doing now are all new. One that stands out is 'Please Myself', an Allen Ashley composition. It is a great song and possibly the favourite lyrics Allen wrote for the band. 

We posted a live video of this when we played at The Midland Hotel. The sound quality left a bit to be desired, but this was Allen performing with the False Dots at our raucous best!


 

Please myself

All you trolls and haters, with your messages and spam

You won’t say things to our faces, coz your only half a man

All you commentators, trying to set the news

Have you heard the latest, no one’s listening to you

 

Chorus

We don’t need your adulation, we are just our own creation

You won’t find us in the mainstream we’ve been hived off to the slipstream

We’ve been struck off all your playlists whilst running from the bailiffs

I may be hard of hearing but I’ve never heard you cheering

But I did the whole thing just to please myself

Please myself!

 

All you spinning doctors, with your data and your claims

Spinning words to fit your meaning making language just a game

All you corporations turning workers into clones

Writing algorithmic profiles set to fill the sky with drones

 

CH


Smily Dick and Jesus Rabbit you’ve got one chance you’d better grab it

Or you’ll never kick the habit of trashing things you couldn’t dream of achieving


I’ve stopped watching programs, I won’t vote by phone

Catch us in the margins making shows up of our own

All you fashionistas on your Sponsored chatty shows

Brashly lacking substance just the emperors new clothes

CH

And now onto our cultural roundup.

A great way to see in the new year

A wonderful pre Xmas gig in Barnet

Fancy an Xmas Panto? Check out The Grinche's Xmas Adventure at the Bull Theatre, Barnet

https://www.thebulltheatre.com/whats-on








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Wednesday, 16 November 2022

The Wednesday Poem and music and culture round up 16th November 2022

Before lockdown, we were regularly posting a Wednesday poem, and a round up of upcoming local music and cultural events. With lockdown, this ground to a halt and fell off the radar. 

As my band, The False Dots are playing at The Dublin Castle in Camden Town next Wednesday (get your tickets here) we thought we'd restart the feature. 

Let's start with a poem (actually it's a song, specially written for our forthcoming gig, check out the video below).

Dublins Finest Castle 

Worked down in Camden on Delancy Street

I’d nip down the café for a cup of tea

Down the canal to the Engineer

A game of pool and a pint of beer.

Sometimes we’d drink down the old Bucks head

But we love music, so you know where we’d head, yeah


We always put a shilling in the old juke box

I’d bump into Rambo and his mate Tony Cox

There were nutty’s and punks, you’d see the odd skinhead

One time we gut drunk with a Cornish Ted

Sometimes  see Madness and want to say hi

But we were just kids we were much too shy, No!

 

The Dublin Castle, it just hasn’t changed, nothing else round there is quite the same

Madness to Amy, they’ve all been here, for just a few quid and a pint of beer                    

Dublins finest castle in Camden Town If you love your music come on down

The Guiness is good the bands are great get down early it starts at 8!

--

Sta press strides a Ben Sherman Shirt

A new pair of DM’s God they hurt

A white Fred Perry and a Harrington Jacket

Spend all the cash in your weekly wage packet

--

Christmas at the Castle, the Pogues are blaring out

The Guinness here is gorgeous and your a lovely crowd

Things get lively around quarter to ten

Better get a round in as the bands on then

London’s at it’s best with a band and beer

And there’s absolutely no where better than here

 



Forthcoming events.

The Arts Depot have launched their Spring program. Details here


There are some amazing films coming up at the Phoenix Cinema, here is our pick


This looks good for all you classical music lovers
And this....

And finally....
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