Diary Of A Busker Day 247 Saturday June 16th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 4:10-4:48pm, 2. Opposite O2, Time: 4:55-6:12pmA day of constant drizzle which I’m able to take for almost forty minutes until the moisture makes it quite difficult to play. Just one small droplet on the fretboard, when it comes into contact with a finger… Read more →
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Diary Of A Busker Day 246
Diary Of A Busker Day 246 Thursday June 14th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Zizzi, Time: 2-3:14pm, 2. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 3:37-4:13pm, 3. Opposite Bellis, Time: 4:30-5:45pm It’s choc-a-bloc with buskers today; starting at The Buttercross: Rob, as loud as ever, moving further down…a young guy with an acoustic guitar that I can barely hear… further down at the… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 245
Diary Of A Busker Day 245 Saturday June 9th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 1:07-1:31pm, 2. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 1:40-2pm, 3. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 2:30-4:10pm, 4. Opposite Bellis, Time: 5:07-5:36pmA couple of weeks ago I came across old Ralph sitting on a bench in the High Street. He started telling me how difficult it was to motivate… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 244
Diary Of A Busker Day 244 Wednesday June 6th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 2:30-4:03pm, 2. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 5:19-5:49pm, 3. Opposite Phase Eight, Time: 5:55-6:30pm Things go OK at my first spot. I sell a CD to an Iranian Roy Orbison lookalike and manage to accumulate just under £20 – slightly above the hourly average. I… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 243
Diary Of A Busker Day 243 Sunday June 3rd 2012 Oxford Street, Reading Opposite Anne Summers, Time: 11:36-12:58pm Having arranged a fingerstyle tutorial with my new acquaintance – legendary American (now residing in Reading) jazz, blues, folk and swing guitarist Duck Baker – at two o’clock, I took the opportunity to kill not two but three birds with one stone,… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 242
Diary Of A Busker Day 242 Friday June 1st 2012 Winchester High Street Opposite Vodafone, Time: 1:45-3:15pm A woman with three teeth comes up during Tammy. She remembers the tune but has forgotten the name so I remind her, and also the year (1957), for no extra charge. ‘I was living in Reading…they used to call me Tammy, I don’t… Read more →