Month: March 2025

Diary Of A Busker Day 2516 Saturday March 29th 2025 Winchester.   In the words of Jim Morrison, people are strange. I mean, I wouldn’t dream of coming up to someone I don’t know and more or less insulting them when they’re trying to do their work.I’ve been in The Square and playing for an hour or so when a… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2515 Friday March 28th 2025 Winchester.   Walking the bike into the high street, Don Lavelle’s on the bench opposite the Buttercross, having his snack. He says no one’s been playing here all day, which is unusual for a Friday. Oh well, looks like it’s up to me to break the peace. Don kindly gives… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2514 Thursday March 27th 2025 Winchester.   There’s a young woman with a saxophone at the top spot, The Square’s deserted so no point in setting up there…no one at the crossroads but too late to set up as they’ll be putting the bins out soon…I get off the bike in front of the new… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2513 Tuesday March 25th 2025 Chichester.   Another early train to Chichester and it’s Christian at The Cross; he says he’ll be done at 2:30 which is 3 1/2 hours from now, which is no problem as, because he seems to be the only one playing at the moment, I can chose either North or… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2512 Monday March 24th 2025 Winchester.   I’m finding out that the weekdays here are pretty much dead so I’m not coming in so much, especially Mondays and Tuesdays so fuck knows why I’m in today because I’ve played for an hour and 20 minutes at the top spot and accumulated a grand total of… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2509 Thursday March 20th 2025 Winchester.   A couple of days ago it was Dangerous Dave’s brother who was in attendance but today it’s the man himself. I’ve just done the first song of a two hour spot at the top spot when DD turns up. There’s no “hello Marvin” or anything like that, it’s… Read more →