Category: Busking

Diary Of A Busker Day 2563 Monday June 16th 2025 Winchester.   At the top spot on a hot day but at least I’m in the shade so my fat fingers don’t get fatter and make it even harder to play! It’s five minutes in before the first floor window is shut on the building opposite. I don’t blame them… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2562 Sunday June 15th 2025 Winchester.   Indecision! I got to The Buttercross – no one playing and I thought it would be good to give The Square a rest from me because I’m always bloody there on a Sunday…then thought I’d just check to see if anyone was there because I’m curious! So I… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2561 Friday 13th June 2025 Winchester.   A full house – almost; there’s a spot at the intersection in front of the old Debenhams. It’s full of market stalls, including the shouting fruit and veg bloke next to Sainsbury’s but for some reason he’s silent. I hang about for a couple of minutes and he… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2560 Thursday June 12th 2025 Winchester.   Before I came out I did a video of me doing California Girls and Wouldn’t It Be Nice – a tribute to Brian Wilson whose death was announced yesterday…and this afternoon I carried on in the same vein at The Buttercross, starting with those two songs, then again… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2559 Tuesday June 10th 2025 Southampton.    Back to where it all started…and a bit later than planned due to some idiot on the train pulling the emergency lever with such force at Southampton Airport Parkway, one of the train doors wouldn’t shut so the train wouldn’t move and we all had to get off… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2558 Monday June 9th 2025 Winchester.   I wasn’t going to come in, then I thought “what the hell, why not?” which, as it turned out, was good as it ended in a unique way. Nothing much occurred for the first half hour…after Anjie (or Angie), a woman came up to ask what it was,… Read more →