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Buskers

Started by flotemysost, June 12, 2021, 01:27:02 PM

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holyzombiejesus

Quote from: JaDanketies on June 12, 2021, 07:17:21 PM
Oh the Hoochie Coochie Man! He was really good. Played Dire Straits and Jonny Be Good and sing along, great stuff. Not seen him for a long while. Sometimes you get impressive beatboxers in that spot now.

He wasn't talking about the vile Hoochie Coochie Mancunian. He wasn't really good at all, he was horrible. Just some horrible old guy belting out horrible old blues songs and I'm thrilled to announce he's been served with a nuisance abatement notice and has stopped performing. The blind guy who did the Shadows stuff is Andy Joyson. He got his stuff nicked a few years back and I've not seen him play since then.

Buskers are pretty vile nowadays. Walking down Market Street in Manchester is awful at the best of times but now it's full of amplified twats with mid-Atlantic accents or goons prancing about in masks. Fine and ban the lot of them.

Icehaven

Not buskers but in Birmingham city centre at one point (and possibly still) there were/is three different religious groups belting out noise within about 20ft of each other, and it's the most unholy racket, genuinely makes it an unpleasant place to be as you can't hear yourself think over it. It must be awful working in any of the nearby shops having to listen to it all day, I'd chuck a bucket of water over them.

Kankurette

Quote from: holyzombiejesus on June 14, 2021, 09:09:28 AM
He wasn't talking about the vile Hoochie Coochie Mancunian. He wasn't really good at all, he was horrible. Just some horrible old guy belting out horrible old blues songs and I'm thrilled to announce he's been served with a nuisance abatement notice and has stopped performing. The blind guy who did the Shadows stuff is Andy Joyson. He got his stuff nicked a few years back and I've not seen him play since then.

Buskers are pretty vile nowadays. Walking down Market Street in Manchester is awful at the best of times but now it's full of amplified twats with mid-Atlantic accents or goons prancing about in masks. Fine and ban the lot of them.
I absolutely hate walking down Market Street because of this. If it's not buskers, it's religious nutters or chuggers. I had one repeatedly block my way when I was trying to get past him. Really pissed me off.

One of the more memorable buskers was the bongo player. Before my area got a Metrolink, if I'd been to a gig at the MEN I'd have to walk up Market Street to get the bus and there would always be a guy with bongos. Not sure if it was the same one.

buttgammon

The junkie guy who attempts to rap at the end of Grafton Street is perhaps the most unusual (and worst) busker I've ever heard. To make matters worse, he often 'raps' too close to the microphone, creating some unholy distortions.

Kankurette

I've not seen him, which end of Grafton Street is he on?

steve98

I used to see a guy in Glasgow who'd spin plates. He had two damaged fishing rods which he'd shove into a planter thing and spin two plastic plates on. Just the two.
He'd run from one rod to the next givin' it *whooooo* (just made it!), then back to the first one *whooooooo* *phew*. Total shit. As soon as he'd made enough for a can he'd be off.

buttgammon

Quote from: Kankurette on June 14, 2021, 11:39:34 AM
I've not seen him, which end of Grafton Street is he on?

The Stephens Green end. He seems to be quite new, it was all jugglers and the like until covid hit.

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: steve98 on June 14, 2021, 01:40:57 PM
I used to see a guy in Glasgow who'd spin plates. He had two damaged fishing rods which he'd shove into a planter thing and spin two plastic plates on. Just the two.
He'd run from one rod to the next givin' it *whooooo* (just made it!), then back to the first one *whooooooo* *phew*. Total shit. As soon as he'd made enough for a can he'd be off.

Sure I've seen a guy with a load of dancing toys too. Bit like that bloke they tell to fuck off in the Pheonix Nights auditions, but with them lined up on a bench and him playing a really loud PA.

We used to have a bloke in Bournemouth called Harry Potter (chances of Rowling nicking his name after she met him on holiday?) who'd stand outside either Boots or Nat West and strum away on a 12(!) string acoustic with about three strings left on it. Both guitar and voice completely out of tune and time. He was great.

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14181703.harry-potter-the-bournemouth-busker-who-became-a-legend/

The article mentions some people had donated him strings, and a mate of mine started working in a guitar shop and offered to restring his guitar for free, but old Harry wasn't having any of it. Man was incredibly protective of his axe.

holyzombiejesus

A kind of busker, I guess, is this Leeds Pavement Poet wanker.

QuoteThis guy who goes by 'The Pavement Poet' was shouting abuse at a homeless man in Leeds city centre.
The man asked the guy if he was also homeless and the 'poet' started screaming at him calling him a 'crackhead' & saying it was disrespectful to his work to assume he was homeless

QuoteThen he started ranting about how their have been university lectures about his work and saying that it was a 'micro aggression' to ask if he was homeless? Meanwhile people are stepping in to see if the homeless man is okay

QuoteOh and I forgot the funniest part, where he started telling the homeless man that he 'didn't understand the streets' because he wasn't a poet. Beyond parody

The woman who tweeted about this - the excellent @wank_666 - then discovered that not only had the pavement poet been done for posting revenge porn but was also a BNP youth leader. What a creep!


The Culture Bunker

I hadn't been in Manchester for ages recently until work called me back in one day a week - was strange seeing Jesus freaks on both Market Street and Exchange Square, as they seemed to have nearly vanished. Presumably Covid has fired them up again, and they can rant on about a plague from God being the result of our sinful ways.

Market Street itself still has the usual future/former X Factor contenders belting out crap. Doing a loop around the city centre the other day, I think I heard three different singers doing 'Can't Help Falling In Love' using the same backing track.

I am also of the mind that if you're busking and using backing tracks through a crappy PA, you deserve nowt.

PlanktonSideburns

Quote from: The Dog on June 13, 2021, 01:34:25 PM

We used to have a busker with a guitar who did Oasis covers, but he got chased away by a man on a horse.

As it should be