Author: Marvin

Diary Of A Busker Day 2419 Friday August 9th 2024 Winchester.   First time out with an electric 12-string – the red Burns Double-Six. Tell a lie, I took the psychedelic double-neck out once, just after it was painted but that would have been in 2012 and so long ago it doesn’t count! There’s a young bloke singing opera stuff… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2412 Tuesday July 30th 2024 Winchester.   Only mad dogs and mad fingerstyle guitarists go out in the midday sun, especially on the hottest day of the year…so far. It was 30 celsius. I found a bit of shade at the Buttercross and, jacketless, struck up the old Sigma 12 string, but it was very… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2396 Thursday June 27th 2024 The Square, Winchester.    If you hang around long enough you’ll meet the world and his wife…or at least the friend of an ex-wife of a Beatle, who holds his phone towards me so she can hear me play a song her ex-husband wrote.   I’d just done an hour… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2395 Wednesday June 26th 2024 The Buttercross Winchester.   The second hot day in a row; 25 degrees. There’s a girl singing at the top spot, Meeta at the crossroads but no flower seller opposite Marks & Sparks so I set up, in the shade, thankfully…and just after I start, there’s the distant sound of… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2394 Tuesday June 25th 2024. Winchester.   My second time out to do my own songs, and in Winchester even…AND at the top spot, the Buttercross, no less. I must be feeling brave as I swore never to sing here, fearing a lynching by the regulars who, for nigh on 14 years, have only ever… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2390 Thursday June 20th 2024 Southampton.   The day has arrived when I finally build up the courage to do my own songs and what more appropriate place to do it than the place where I first busked, Southampton, fourteen years ago. In fact, I’m only a few yards away from the exact location. Back… Read more →