Category: Busking

Diary Of A Busker Day 2492 Thursday February 6th 2025 Southampton.  Another first-time-back-in-ages event. This time it’s Southampton, where I began my glorious rise to notoriety almost FIFTEEN years ago. My, how time flies when you’re having fun. Down at the bottom near the Bargate end, is Kai Choi and his dinner suit and violin…and halfway up and facing the… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2491 Wednesday February 5th 2025 Chichester.   Back to Chichester for the first time in I don’t know how long, maybe even a year. There’s a bloke with a mobile hot dog/burger stand in front of The Cross – I don’t want to set up right in front of him so I walk down North… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2488 Friday January 31st 2025 Winchester.   Out with the Aria again and the top spot’s free. I’ve momentarily ditched the Cube Street and gone back to the trusty MicroCube, which seems to do the job within the confines of the High Street. A relatively uneventful hour and twenty minutes, which I don’t mind at… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 2487 Thursday January 30th 2025 Winchester.   Back out with the newish Aria classical/Spanish/nylon string guitar, now with an even newer strap button on the heel, courtesy of Mr. Hayward…and I redid the fretboard dots so they don’t look like they were done by a spac. The usual suspects are in place; The Two Henrys… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker day 2484 Wednesday January 22nd 2025 Winchester.   The top spot was taken so I went down to the crossroads (there’s a song there). There were two bins on the corner, outside Starbucks, and I was wondering whether they were going to come out and put some more there when a young bloke came out with… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker day 2482 Friday January 17th 2025 Winchester.   Continuing the amp drama of yesterday…I read that it might be an idea to squirt some electronic cleaning spray into the on/off switch so I was up bright and early to go to D & G where I parted with £20 for a big bottle of the stuff… Read more →