Diary Of A Busker Day 409 Wednesday July 17th Winchester High Street (1. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 1:35-3:15pm, 2. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 3:53-5:10pm). A good start: after the second song – Londonderry Air, or Danny Boy, or whatever it’s called, a man on a disability scooter, who’d been listening on the other side of the bin I was next to, gave… Read more →
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Diary Of A Busker Day 405
Diary Of A Busker Day 405 Saturday July 13th Winchester (1. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 1:54-3:54pm, 2. Next to The Slug And Lettuce, Time: 4:13-5:40pm). And once again it’s choc-a-bloc with buskers. At The Butter Cross: a man singing and playing the Skyfall theme on an electronic keyboard. Then, down a bit, the same young guy who was decimating Imagine, yesterday… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 402
Diary Of A Busker Day 402 Wednesday July 10th Winchester High Street (1. Opposite Bellis/O2, Time: 12:57-2:59pm, 2. Opposite Oxfam, Time: 3:15-4:45pm, 3. Opposite Vodafone, Time: 4:50-5:20pm). Quite a lot of playing today – 4 hours, and not much of anything else, which suits me fine as I get bored with writing all this rubbish down sometimes! In fact, after… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 401
Diary Of A Busker Day 401 Tuesday July 9th Winchester High Street (Opposite Vodafone, Time: 2:02-4:30pm). A bloke who looks like an old rocker, and his wife or girlfriend (or whatever %$&! she is!) walk by as I finish Jesu with a slow ascending arpeggio. He says ‘I don’t remember Bach doing that’. I say no, but I do, and… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 386
Diary Of A Busker Day 386 Friday June 14th 2013 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Vodafone. Time: 1:55-4:26pm 2. Opposite Bellis. Time: 4:46-5:50pm A woman comes up and says ‘Do you know the man with the white beard?’ which annoys me, as I’m in the middle of The Entertainer, which, due to my accursed Focal Dystonia, I really have to… Read more →
Diary Of A Busker Day 379
Diary Of A Busker Day 379 Thursday May 30th 2013 Winchester High Street 1. Opposite Oxfam. Time: 4:27-5:13pm 2. Opposite Vodafone. Time: 5:25-6:08pm There’s a man setting up a puppet busker(!) near The Buttercross, and Mike(?) and his mandolin around the corner from Vodafone, so I go down the road…when I’m going past the TINC shop, I can see the… Read more →