THE all-male choir Men In Suits have an impressive record of being ordered out of Melbourne city venues. The management at the Block Arcade banned them for life after one of last year's ''city raids'' - a classic MIS operation, during which 20 besuited blokes emerged from the camouflage of the morning crowds of businessmen and broke into their satiric anthem Let me through, let me through/I've got very important things to do.

The choir has also alarmed security guards at various city stations by appearing on escalators and platforms to sing, in glorious four-part harmony, their unofficial Metro hymn of mourning to late and cancelled trains - with lines such as ''Let us remember the 10.53 from Epping which never made it through.''

The Men in Suits choir, fronted by conductor Stephen Taberner, performs an impromptu concert on the platform at Armadale railway station. Credit:John Woudstra

The previous Christmas, security guards at Myer were ready to call the police when the group began serenading parcel-laden shoppers with their anti-consumerism anthem Buy more stuff.

Men In Suits are now regularly invited to ''invade'' corporate charity functions, while sometimes they are merely asked to just get up on stage and sing. Next month they will perform at the Melbourne a Cappella festival and at the Yackandandah Folk Festival, while this Thursday night they will be at the Melbourne Town Hall for the Victorian Women's Trust's ''Be The Hero! Storming Against Violence'' forum on violence against women.