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 →
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Diary Of A Busker Day 225
Diary Of A Busker Day 225 Wednesday April 18th 2012 Winchester High Street Opposite O2. Time: 2:53-4:13pmA windy day, with rain which keeps stopping/starting, starting/stopping… There are no other buskers out today (I don’t blame them) so I can go anywhere I want and as I want to keep all my stuff as dry as I can, I head for… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 221
Diary Of A Busker Day 221 Saturday April 7th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Reflex – just closed down, Time: 1:23-2:38pm, 2. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 2:55-3:55pmI’m again banished to the outer reaches but I’m fortunate to receive a donation right at the start, from Carol, my hard-of-hearing regular from The North. I thank her. ‘How are you, pet?’ ‘I’m… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 220
Diary Of A Busker Day 220 Friday April 6th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 12:55-2pm, 2. Opposite Phase Eight, Time: 3:45-5:45pm This is the first day of the Easter holiday and there certainly are a lot of people about. Rockin’ Rob is just across from The Buttercross, talking to Frank…so it’s down the street I go, and… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 218
Diary Of A Busker Day 218 2012 Monday April 2nd Winchester High Street Opposite Vodafone, Time: 3:50-6:15pmI haven’t been playing five minutes when I get my first interruption; a man, mid 60s, wearing a hat a bit small for his head comes up, he has a Scottish accent. ‘Hey! Ah know Helen Shapiro, y’know!’ ‘Really?’ ‘Yeah. And Cliff Richard –… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 217
Diary Of A Busker Day 217 Friday March 30th 2012 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Reflex, Time: 2:43-4:09pm, 2. Opposite Cheltenham & Gloucester, Time: 4:30-5:28pm, 3. Opposite Bellis, Time: 5:35-6:15pmKai and his violin are inbetween The Buttercross and the crossroads which means I can’t set up at either place as both are too close to him, so it’s down at… Read more →