Category: Busking

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 →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2556 Saturday June 7th 2025 Winchester.   Out during a break in the rain…there’s a singer up from The Buttercross but no one around the corner in The Square. I get through La Vie En Rose and right on cue, it starts raining so I drag everything back a few feet under the tree at… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2554 Wednesday June 4th 2025 Chichester.   Back to Chichester and an hour earlier than usual…and The Cross spot is free so I get in there while I can and don’t even bother having a look to see who else is about.  Slow coinage for a long time…a woman takes a photo and says ‘I’ve… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2550 Saturday May 24th 2025 Winchester.   At around 5 o’clock, about an hour in to the set in The Square, I had one one those “what are the chances of that?” moments. I was nearing the end of the last verse of Life On Mars? and doing OK, although I’d messed up a bit… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2549 Friday May 23rd 2025 Winchester.   A full house; Dean’s at the top spot, some bloke with a keyboard in The Square, Meeta at the crossroads and there’s even a stall in the newly-revisited corner of M&S spot. There’s only one spot and it’s down the arse-end. It starts off promising, with 15p during… Read more →