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Post by thebluesbear( al) on Feb 11, 2009 10:38:58 GMT
I spent one year as a full time busker ,back then i was trying to polish enough songs to get a act togther
munich was at that time the craziest place i have seen .......for example at the time 1991 it was the fashion if you couldnt defend your self to hire many of the ex stasi as a minder
bottom line the fee was 20 euros a day and dinner at mcdonalds
i kid you not
al
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Post by Gerry C on Feb 11, 2009 15:02:38 GMT
When I was much younger I busked in Liverpool, Bradford and Newcastle - the latter is my home town and it was by far the worst because of all the people going by who actually knew me and thought that gave them licence to stand there for twenty minutes laughing and pointing... France was great. The best was when I was working the terrasse of a cafe in Tours (with the owner's permission as he liked "le folk anglais") and I made decent amount of money, got fed and 'watered', met people who invited me to play at parties.... Good times.
Worst was about twenty-odd years ago when I was playing mandolin in a ceilidh band. While we were unloading at a church hall in a rather dodgy area of Leeds the local youth were bombarding us with AAA batteries fired from catapults. Halfway through the last set the organiser got up onstage to draw the raffle and announced that the band had kindly donated their fee to a local charity appeal (we hadn't been asked!!). We'd been asked to finish at 11 o'clock and at 10:59 and 40 secs the bar steward (that was what it said on his name tag - I am NOT making this up) came up onstage and pulled the plug on us. The sixty or so people who were in the middle of the last dance thought WE had just stopped and proceeded to berate us and throw things. Three days later we got a phone call asking us to play there again as the crowd had enjoyed it so much.... Not been to that bit of Leeds since!
Cheerily,
Gerry C
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Post by toom on Feb 24, 2009 20:39:45 GMT
I've never busked myself, but an old friend travels around South Wales, and busks around Brecon, Abergavenny, Merthyr and Pontypridd town centres. He also sells the Big Issue (as he was once homeless after breaking up with his wife), and does quite well busking and selling. He spends several weeks a year in Thailand!
He stutters very badly when he speaks, but he's got a nice singing voice.
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