Category: Busking

Diary Of A Busker Day 2433 Tuesday August 13th 2024 Winchester.   I mentioned the psychedelic double-neck a few days ago…so I decided to play it in town, and I’m pretty sure I only ever played it in town once before, which was just after the paint job was done which must have been 2011. Straight away, it got attention.… Read more →

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 →