Diary Of A Busker Day 603 Tuesday August 5th 2014 Chichester (1. Opposite Next, East Street, Time: 11:45-1:20pm, 2-4pm). Seeing as I did so well up the road from The Clock, I made sure I booked the same place this time. On the phone, the woman went through the same routine: take a break every half hour, this time adding… Read more →
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Diary Of A Busker Day 490
Diary Of A Busker Day 490 Wednesday January 8th 2014 Winchester (Opposite Bellis/O2, Time: 3:17-4:55pm). Another rainy day – actually, it’d been dry until I started walking in – typical! I start with something I’ve never started with before: the 1st. Gnossienne, in keeping with the downcast weather. In fact I keep it pretty much ‘down’ for awhile: Ne Me… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 321
Diary Of A Busker Day 321 Thursday January 31st 2013 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Bellis. Time: 12:54-2:30pm 2. Opposite Oxfam. Time: 3:32-5pm My polite/always complimentary, but now opera-busker Demelza Stafford groupie, Ian, turns up and stands to my left. When I finish the song I’m playing, I turn on him – ‘Ah, Ian. I saw you yesterday. You’re now… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 289
Diary Of A Busker Day 289 Thursday September 27th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 2:33-4:03pm, 2. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 4:32-5:10pmA good hour and a half at the crossroads and I manage to do the whole repertoire without repeating anything, although I had an embarrassing moment – a very long moment – during As Time Goes By, when… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 227
Diary Of A Busker Day 227 Tuesday April 24th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Vodafone. Time: 11:43-1:25pm 2. Opposite WH Smiths. Time: 2:15-5:15pmIt starts drizzling just as I start to play, but it’s not too bad and stops after three songs. A couple in their early 60s stop, listen, pay a compliment (verbal not coinage), walk off, have a… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 203
Diary Of A Busker Day 203 Wednesday March 7th 2012 Winchester High Street Opposite Vodafone, Time: 3:05-5:10pmA lady in her 60s gives me a pound during Albatross, I thank her, she goes to walk off, comes back, remarks on how Albatross is ‘a bit Shadows-ey, like Apache.’ ‘It’s the extra reverb,’ I say. This brings me, naturally, on to my… Read more →