Buskers

[Dick Moby]

I was in Aberdeen at the weekend and on a busy corner there was somebody playing the accordion. He was making a good job of it but he didn?t seem to be making much money. By his appearance I would have said he was Romanian or from that sort of area. A couple of streets away there was somebody playing the bagpipes (nationality unknown but presumed to be Scottish). I dropped a quid in his open case and I was surprised to see how much money was lying there. Was it simply a case of ?knowing the market?.
I always thought buskers played music your mother or granny would like (more chance of a donation perhaps) but now I hear buskers playing Led Zeppelin and that sort of thing i.e. music from my youth.

[RoddersUK]

The buskers in Brighton are goddamned fucking awful and as far as I'm concerned they can fucking starve, useless noisy tuneless twattttts.

[David Johnson]

Yes, quite a high score on the Rodders twatttttttometer!

[mutanthalibut]

The busker with the accordian in Aberdeen is Afro-Mongolian and makes it well known that he doesn't like Scottish folk, hence not much money. He just does is to show up the octopus squeezers.

[The Last Word]

The buskers in our town are really middle class.

They wear ponchos and play fiddles, pan pipes, penny whistles etc. Tasteful semi-folk. You can buy their CDs off them.

A nice change from the usual off-key student fuckwit who thinks he's Bob Dylan of course, but I still wish they'd clear off.