Friday 2 September 2011

Mill Hill Sports Club latest - Mill Hill Jazz club is moving

An update on the closure of Mill Hill Sports Club. The Mill Hill jazz club has found a new home. It is :-

Mill Hill Golf Club Clubhouse
100 Barnet Way
Mill Hill
NW7 3AL

They have a real treat as an opening event :-

Our Next Evening: Wednesday 7th September
The Graham Pike Quartet
Graham Pike is a great multi instrumentalist transgressing many styles from jazz and fusion to classical, trad folk to blues. On trumpet and flugelhorn Graham's been compared to Chet Baker and Miles Davis.  His harmonica playing and singing is also up there with the best.   He is also a Composer/songwriter for TV and Theatre with a lifetime's experience in studio production, scoring and arranging.
The quartet features Graham supported by Barry Parfitt on piano, Jason Simpson on bass and Eric Ford on drums.
This band will putt us on the map at our new golf club venue.
Price: £5 Members/£7 Guests

Graham Pike is a great multi instrumentalist transgressing many styles from jazz and fusion to classical, trad folk to blues. On trumpet and flugelhorn Graham's been compared to Chet Baker and Miles Davis.  His harmonica playing and singing is also up there with the best.   He is also a Composer/songwriter for TV and Theatre with a lifetime's experience in studio production, scoring and arranging.
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As to the latest gossip on the Sports Club, and I have heard this third hand so I don't know how true it is. The staff have now been given until the end of September to be completely out of there when the Club closes. Originally they had been given a 3 month rolling contract to be caretakers of the place. Now, allegedly, the council is meeting with the current owners to discuss buying back the property to, as you may know, build a school there.  Whilst the area does need more schools, its not such a good idea when it comes at the expense of loosing sports facilities. The council owns plenty of land in Barnet, so why destroy amenities for the community, rather than using existing sites? We cannot afford, socially, morally or for the sake of our young peoples health and wellbeing to keep destroying playing fields.

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