Tag: Albatross

Diary Of A Busker Day 290

Diary Of A Busker Day 290 Saturday September 29th 2012 London, In front of The Coach And Horses public house, Greenwich Indoor Market, Time: 1:35-3:03pm, 4:35-6:03pm I’m back outside the same pub I was outside in January last year, just after I started busking, and again at the invitation of Gary, who’s asked me to play  at the nearby Ben… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 281

Diary Of A Busker Day 281 Friday September 7th 2012 Romsey, the Market, Time: 10:16-11:33, 12:28-132pmReturn to Romsey (sounds like an old film) – a sort of brief respite from Winchester, and drunken idiots falling down and bleeding all over the pavement next to me. And it’s nice to see Bertie again; when I told him I was momentarily fed… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 269

Diary Of A Busker Day 269 Saturday August 11th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 2:05-3:23pm, 2. Opposite Bellis, Time: 3:33-4:10pm, 3. Opposte O2, Time: 4:40-5:57pm Before I start the proceedings, I have a chat with the man I met recently, who was doing a sketch of the high street, looking down from The Buttercross while I was… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 264

Diary Of A Busker Day 264 Friday August 3rd 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 1:35-2:35pm, 2. Opposite Bellis, Time: 4:35-6:18pmA couple of busking students at The Buttercross have hijacked the Tesco slogan for their sign; STUDENTS – EVERY LITTLE HELPS, and down at the crossroads, it’s Guy’s Threepenny Bit folk franchise, five of them today. So I… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 261

Diary Of A Busker Day 261 Friday July 20th 2012 1. Opposite Phase Eight, Time: 1:30-2:15pm, 2. Opposite Bellis, Time: 2:20-2:51pmI set up just down from WH Smiths and just up from the Timpsons cobblers, the proprietor being the infamous Busker-Hater Of Winchester High Street, but I reckon I’m far enough away not to arouse his wrath. One of my… Read more →

Diary Of A Busker Day 259

Diary Of A Busker Day 259 Tuesday July 17th 2012 Broad Street, Reading 1. Outside John Lewis, Time: 10:20-10:30am, 2. Opposite Handbag & Mobile Phone Shop, Time: 10:33-11:05am, 3. Opposite Anne Summers, Time: 1:42-2:28pmToday’s my fourth and final acupuncture appointment. Apart from the fact that I only signed up for four, I can’t afford to come up for more as,… Read more →