Buskers singing Beatles songs. Crap/Not Crap?

[chico enrico]

i saw a thalidomide busker playing the electric guitar last week. that was way cool in a kinda david lynch sort of way

 

[foo]

we've got a great reggae singer busker. he's the mutt's nuts and often has a dancing crowd around him. he makes dosh.

 

[seeformiles]

And I would rather endure an album of busked Coldplay than a single busked Oasis and that's swearing

There seems to be a sliding scale of badness emerging here!

 

[Bakunin]

There's a chap who busks in Plymouth city centre whose entire repertoire seemingly consists of The Shadows.

Now, I admire Hank Marvin's guitar skills as much as anyone, which is why I'll sometimes stop for a listen and chuck some change in his cap while I'm there, but when I was on a CND stall in the city centre for two hours and it was almost the entire back catalogue, some of them twice, it was a tad annoying to say the least after a while.

 

[matt m]

There's a chap who busks in Plymouth city centre whose entire repertoire seemingly consists of The Shadows.

Now, I admire Hank Marvin's guitar skills as much as anyone, which is why I'll sometimes stop for a listen and chuck some change in his cap while I'm there, but when I was on a CND stall in the city centre for two hours and it was almost the entire back catalogue, some of them twice, it was a tad annoying to say the least after a while.

sounds remarkably like that guy who plays at Tottenham Crt Road station sometimes. he even dresses like Hank Marvin.

 

[Relahni]

A very poor busker was at Westminster station - a weak effort at lamabada on the saxaphone.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

There's a chap who busks in Plymouth city centre whose entire repertoire seemingly consists of The Shadows.

Now, I admire Hank Marvin's guitar skills as much as anyone, which is why I'll sometimes stop for a listen and chuck some change in his cap while I'm there, but when I was on a CND stall in the city centre for two hours and it was almost the entire back catalogue, some of them twice, it was a tad annoying to say the least after a while.

He should get together with a Cliff-a-like busker. They'd make a mint....maybe

 

[gnoriac]

Buskers doing "Knockin On Heaven's Door" are by far the worst.

 

[rosa]

buskers singing the frog chorus. deffo NOT crap.

Now see if Liverpool was flooded with buskers doing the Frog Chorus every Mathew Street festival that'd be great.

Sadly it is not.

 

[rollinder]

Depends on the quality of the busker - the one at Leicester Square last night was singing "Another Brick In the Wall" which didn't put me in a good frame of mind for my anticipated shopping frenzy

heard one doing that in Tiverton high street - soon after September 11 so was depressed anyway - wanted to fucking punch him.

eta: once heard somebody doing Wonderwall in the style of Billy Bragg

 

[SpookyFrank]

There's a chap who busks in Plymouth city centre whose entire repertoire seemingly consists of The Shadows.

The chap in plymouth with the bass drum and the harmonica is rather good, although I prefer the talentless, unamplified young punk who sometimes pitches up outside TK maxx and rattles out 'garageland' and similar classics as if he doesn't give a tiny little fuck if anyone gives him money, or even likes the music