Month: October 2012

Diary Of A Busker Day 293

Diary Of A Busker Day 293 Saturday October 6th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Bellis, Time: 2:08-3:43pm, 2. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 4:05-5:35pm A few songs in and I look to my left and it’s Henry Gray, smiling away in his electric buggy. I finish the song, La Vie En Rose, and go into Henry’s favourite, Somewhere Over The Rainbow,… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 292

Diary Of A Busker Day 292 Thursday October 4th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Bellis, Time: 1:49-3:05pmA man who I’ve seen a couple of times before asks if I can play Mr. Tambourine Man, as he says he’s heard me play it before. I tell him he must be thinking of someone else. I know the song but I… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 291

Diary Of A Busker Day 291 Wednesday October 3rd 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 12:50-1:56pm, 2. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 2:36-3:43pm I’ve barely finished the first song when I notice someone’s turned on some music in a shop across the road; not loud enough to drown me out but loud enough that I can hear it behind my… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 290

Diary Of A Busker Day 290 Saturday September 29th 2012 London, In front of The Coach And Horses public house, Greenwich Indoor Market, Time: 1:35-3:03pm, 4:35-6:03pm I’m back outside the same pub I was outside in January last year, just after I started busking, and again at the invitation of Gary, who’s asked me to play  at the nearby Ben… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 289

Diary Of A Busker Day 289 Thursday September 27th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 2:33-4:03pm, 2. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 4:32-5:10pmA good hour and a half at the crossroads and I manage to do the whole repertoire without repeating anything, although I had an embarrassing moment – a very long moment – during As Time Goes By, when… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 288

Diary Of A Busker Day 288 Wednesday September 26th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Bellis, Time: 1:45-2:54pm, 2. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 3:04-4:15pmIt’s been raining pretty much all day every day since I last went out but it’s cleared up today…for a bit…I hope. I get through two songs, then most of Here Comes The Sun, then it rains so… Read more →