Diary of a Busker

Diary Of A Busker Day 2532 Monday April 28th 2025 Winchester.   The temperature has finally got to 20 degrees and should stay like that for the foreseeable future (like hell it will). The bald bloke who always seems to be doing Your Song when I come into town is at the top spot…The Square looks pretty dead…no one at… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2530 Friday April 25th 2025 Chichester.   Back to Chidester, as the locals call it, and unusually there’s no one at the top spot, Chichester’s butterless Cross. I don’t even bother looking around North or East Street, as this’ll do fine. Coinage is slow to start but picks up after an hour or so. A… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker day 2529 Thursday April 24th 2025 Winchester.   For the third day on the trot, no one at the top spot so it’s mine, all mine! I open with La Vie En Rose then it’s Waterloo Sunset and a little bit better than yesterday, thank fuck. I’ve now come up with an approximation of the end… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2528 Wednesday April 23rd 2025 Winchester.   Late afternoon and yet again no one at the top spot…and I have a stroke of luck. A bunch of tourists emerge from the alleyway and stop to listen to the tour guide rant on about the monument behind me. I finish whatever I was playing and go… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2527 Tuesday April 22nd 2025 Winchester.   At around 9:30 in the morning, while taking the coinage to the bank, the bloke who sings old songs to backing tracks was just setting up at The Buttercross so I waited until mid-afternoon before I ventured in, when I reckoned he’d be gone. I started off by… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2526 Sunday April 12th 2025 Winchester.   The rain stopped me coming in until quite late. It’s just before 4 o’clock and Gareth’s almost finished packing his stuff away at the top spot. Unfortunately, he got caught in the downpour coming from the train station. I have a quick look through the alley way to… Read more →