Author: Marvin

Diary Of A Busker Day 2367 Thursday May 9th 2024.   A sunny day – the third in a row and I was toying with the idea of going to Reading but couldn’t face it in the end…so, into town…and the Buttercross is free but I don’t fancy it, so through the alleyway and to The Square but there’s a… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2361 Thursday May 2nd 2024 Winchester.   I’d been at the top spot for over an hour and had only two donations, totalling £2.10, when an American couple in their 70’s came by while I was playing Can’t Take My Eyes Off You and the man said, ‘that was our engagement song!’ and dropped a… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2359 Tuesday April 30th 2024 Chichester.   Looks like I picked the wrong day to go to Chichester. The problem definitely wasn’t the weather, which was more or less sunny and around 15 degrees. The problem was the coinage, which was nothing to write home about, and unusual for here.   I got here an… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2354 Thursday April 25th 2024 Winchester.   We’re back to 10 degrees or below so quite a cold day at The Buttercross. The sun was on me when I set up but I kept having to drag everything a foot or so to the right, as the shadow kept moving over me, which made it… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2353 Tuesday April 23rd 2024 Salisbury.   It looks like I picked the wrong day to go to Salisbury. There was a duo – a violinist and guitarist, on the high street and some old singer/strummer on that platform at one of the corners of the market square, so I had no choice but to… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2348 Wednesday April 17th 2024 Southampton.   As I’ve got to go back to Chichester on Friday, I thought a shorter train trip was in order today so I went to Southampton.  Up opposite the mall, there’s a girl doing a semi-operatic rendition of Hallelujah and if I’ve heard it done that way once, I’ve… Read more →