Comments on: Busking 2.0 http://perfectpath.co.uk/2007/12/14/busking-20/ I'm the founder of the Tuttle Club and fascinated by organisation. I enjoy making social art and building communities, if you'd like some help from me feel free to e-mail me: Lloyd dot Davis at Gmail dot Com or call +44 (0)79191 82825 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:53:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: perfectpath http://perfectpath.co.uk/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19269 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:28:01 +0000 http://perfectpath.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19269 Hi Julia

What a great place to see the UOGB – I’m really glad to hear the Town Hall is being used for proper music again. I saw the same little pluckers in the less salubrious surroundings of the 100 Club a couple of years ago – great stuff.

I’m not a purist to the extent that I will only play hawaiian music, but I don’t quite stretch to including Smells Like Teen Spirit in my programme, and a flying V uke is definitely not my cup of darjeeling, I think it’s probably a younger man’s instrument :)

No video of any busking yet, but it’s early days. There are pictures on flickr though :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lloyd-davis/tags/busking/

]]> By: catnip http://perfectpath.co.uk/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19266 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:40:02 +0000 http://perfectpath.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19266 Nice one Lloyd, go for it! I do loads of stuff just for the fun of it.

Jon recently bought a pink flying V uke and also dragged me to see to the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain in Brum Town Hall, which was actually a lot more enjoyable than I had anticipated!

Julia G

P.S. does any video exist of said busking session? hehe

]]> By: eaon pritchard http://perfectpath.co.uk/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19162 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:06:30 +0000 http://perfectpath.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19162 go for it, we built this city on rock’n'roll.

]]> By: Ramon http://perfectpath.co.uk/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19100 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:19:03 +0000 http://perfectpath.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19100 I couldn’t agree with you more. I recently started busking and I thought of it as an economic experiment but it makes me so happy just to be there and look at the children smile when I smirk at them, or how people react to seeing an actual performer instead of just somebody asking fro money that the whole thing leaped from being an economic experiment to being an existential one, with my mind being uplifted to such a degree that sometimes I just burst out laughing from mere cheer to be in the streets. I blog all about it…

]]> By: perfectpath http://perfectpath.co.uk/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19024 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:27:50 +0000 http://perfectpath.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19024 thank you everyone! I will do something, probably a combination of twitter, upcoming and the buskers site at buskear.com – which is cool anyway if you want to know who else is playing on the tube at any one time. I do tend to book myself in at quite late notice as it has to fit around other paid work, but I may get more organised… yeah right…

]]> By: Roo Reynolds http://perfectpath.co.uk/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19023 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:07:06 +0000 http://perfectpath.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19023 I can’t nod hard enough. Lloyd. Like Suw, my first thought was that you should publish your busking plans ahead of time so people can come, enjoy and support. I know that if I was in town I’d certainly want to come and quietly cheer you on.

]]> By: Ewan McIntosh http://perfectpath.co.uk/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19021 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:50:16 +0000 http://perfectpath.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-19021 I agree with Suw – I saw you on Seesmic do this for the first time and was very impressed. I could bring my mandoline if I knew you were playing… And it IS all worth those knowing glances from people. Don’t quite know if this is the right thing to say, but “Rock on!”

]]> By: ibru http://perfectpath.co.uk/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-18974 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:56:11 +0000 http://perfectpath.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-18974 eheh I perfectly understand the feeling. For a while I experimented with street art, especially with “statues”. The feedback from people is invaluable (children are the best though).

…but I agree with suw, you should publish your schedule! :)

]]> By: Suw http://perfectpath.co.uk/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-18945 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:13:42 +0000 http://perfectpath.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/busking-20/#comment-18945 You should publish your upcoming busking schedule on, oooh, say, Upcoming. I’d love to come watch you play.

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