Barnet 4 Music

BARNET 4 MUSIC

If you have lived in Barnet for a while you would know that there has always been a healthy music scene in the Town.
That is changing and there is now just a handful of venues where you could go and watch music or where a band could go and get a chance to play in front of a live audience.
Some of you who read this page would remember places such as the "Con Club", All Saints and the Rock A Cha back in the sixties.

Places the kids of that era could go to for a great night of the sounds of the day. You could see well known groups (The Who played The All Saints in Whetstone) and have somewhere to go every weekend to meet old and new friends.
During the seventies you could go to "The Cambridge" to do a bit of skin head moon stomping or go to The Torrington to appreciate any of the excellent bands that played there.

In Barnet town itself we had The Duke of Lancaster where you could also hear good music and some good bands. Other pubs saw that the people wanted to go out and see live music and Baileys and The Cat and Lantern were always worth a visit to see the local bands progress.
In other forms of music (other than Rock/Pop etc.) things seem better organised. It is easier to find others who share the same taste in music and venues are there to cater for this audience. Not so with the good bands we have around here.

Through this page maybe some of us can do something about it. We need a venue to cater for these bands and any other type of music that is not fairly represented. Folk, Blues, Country, Reggae could all do with a venue. Let us hear YOUR views.

Musicians, write in with your gripes or suggestions.

Music lovers vent YOUR frustration through this page.