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 →
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Diary Of A Busker Day 288
Diary Of A Busker Day 288 Wednesday September 26th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Bellis, Time: 1:45-2:54pm, 2. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 3:04-4:15pmIt’s been raining pretty much all day every day since I last went out but it’s cleared up today…for a bit…I hope. I get through two songs, then most of Here Comes The Sun, then it rains so… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 287
Diary Of A Busker Day 287 Saturday September 22nd 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 3-4:13pm, 2. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 4:36-6:30pm My third public outing with the double-neck…and I’m STILL not sure about it, and I’ve spent whole evenings trying to make it sound like my Epiphone; playing them one after the other, plugging in one, playing it… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 286
Diary Of A Busker Day 286 Thursday September 20th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 12:39-1:42pm, 2. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 1:50-3:10pmWalter, my most regular “regular” from down this end of the street, comes over during Can’t Help Falling In Love. ‘I could play the alto sax on that bit,’ he says, after I play the middle break. I… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 285
Diary Of A Busker Day 285 Tuesday September 18th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 11:54-1:19pm, 2. Opposite Bellis, Time: 1:44-2:44pm An earlier than usual start as I need to be back home for Tom and Owen’s guitar lesson. A weird thing; I was a few songs into the set when my Pickwickian, pipe-smoking regular and one of… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 284
Diary Of A Busker Day 284 Saturday September 15th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite O2, Time: 3:16-4:22pm, 2. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 4:32-5:41pmThe second outing with my eye-catching, very psychedelic and very heavy double-neck guitar, although I’ve discovered it’s not too bad if I sling the gigbag on my back, thereby distributing the weight. However, sonically speaking, I’m still not… Read more →