Diary Of A Busker Day 306 Monday November 12th 2012 Winchester High Street, opposite Oxfam. Time: 1:22-3:14pm The students with their Tesco-style STUDENTS – EVERY LITTLE HELPS sign are at The Buttercross. They’re not actually playing, they’re just sitting on the steps of the monument (you’d never get me doing that!) Down at the crossroads…it’s Rob, and he must be… Read more →
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Diary Of A Busker Day 304
Diary Of A Busker Day 304 Friday November 9th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Bellis. Time: 1:05-2:22pm 2. Opposite Vodafone. Time: 2:38-3:12pm About an hour in, I’m pretty much warmed up so I make an attempt on the dreaded Requerdos De La Alhambra…which goes OK I think, considering this damn hand problem. At the end, I wonder where Ian… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 302
Diary Of A Busker Day 302 Monday November 5th 2012 Winchester High Street Opposite Vodafone. Time: 2:15-3:30pm Before I set up, I chat to Chris – the peaked-capped RAC man who stands just up a bit from where I am. He asks me how it’s going, and I tell him: that I’ve had enough of this busking lark, the idiots… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 301
Diary Of A Busker Day 301 Friday November 2nd 2012 Winchester High Street. opposite Bellis. Time: 3:23-4:40pm As I’m setting up, local artist Andrew Rutter (also draughtsman/old shop sign maker and saviour/preserver of many nice, original high street features) stops by with a sad tale. A while back, he’d met an old lady who lived nearby in St. Thomas Street… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 300
Diary Of A Busker Day 300 Friday October 26th 2012 London 1. In front of The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, Time: 5:45-6:12pm, 2. Hungerford Foot Bridge, Time: 6:42-7:13pmIt’s a funny thing, but looking back over the diary, whenever I come to a landmark day, I’m never in Winchester, even though 99% of all my playing is done there! It’s also… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 299
Diary Of A Busker Day 299 Tuesday October 23rd 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 2:29-3:35pm, 2. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 3:53-4:36pm Coming down the High Street, I notice Big Issue Monica, and because I’d rather take a detour than walk by her and not contribute to her cause, like I expect some of MY regulars do with me,… Read more →