At that Waterloo train station place they have a buskers' stand. I have seen buskers in Piraeus, and our friend and neighbour Aunty P was a kind of busker (here are some photos she sent me from her latest performances for Greek carnival season).
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| That's Aunty P in purple |
Aunty P is a digression. F brings me some little videos of Waterloo Station buskers. Mostly they play music and sing. Some do music that makes humans dance (although rushing by on a railway station concourse, focused in getting to a departing train, they probably just dance inside. They are mostly English after all.).
Being picked up and danced around is not one of my favorite forms of locomotion to share with my humans but I endure it.
This Waterloo busker is interesting because he is making a version of that noise humans call music with an instrument that looks like a cross between 2 Chinese woks and a Caribbean steel drum.
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| My preferred method of locomotion |
Wonderful and informative! LC from retirement daze.com
ReplyDeleteWell, that nice young chap seemed to be enjoying himself there anyway. I bet his mum used to let him bang the kitchen pots with a spoon whilst sitting on the floor when he was a tot.
ReplyDelete😾👍He was the unusual one. The rest do stuff you end up singing to yourself all the way home.
DeleteI prefer you in your locomotion becuase it enhances your cuteness! you need to come with a Cute Alert! I liked the fire dancers, but muted the sound. i love fire but not noisy music and the other one the back ground noise of LOUD humans with all the music hurts my ears. I do not like crowds of people or noise. we have buskers here too but i don't go where they are. we have no train station and anyone playing in the street where our buses stop might get murdered while doing it... different world, different country
ReplyDeleteF doesn't like Aunty P's music either, but the fire is good. Are your streets really that scary?
DeleteI would like a wheelbarrow taxi like yours Tigger.
ReplyDeleteMy humans picked mine up at the tip about 15 years ago. Flat tyre. They pumped it up and it didn3even have a puncture. (We've had a few flats since then and a whole new wheel this year but it still doesn't owe us anything. Who would drive your taxi Dave?
DeleteMusic students used to have to busk as part of their courses. I don't know whether they still do.
ReplyDeleteMusic at stations is a lovely idea. I've seen orchestras performing, at Waterloo or King's Cross, can't remember which.
Speaking of stations did you see The Piano on TV?
DeleteNo, but thank you for pointing it out. I have seen clips of random people playing the piano at stations.
DeleteJust looked it up. Thank you. Now watching, but my eyes are leaking . . .
DeleteIt was emotional wasn't it!
DeleteI wonder if Tigger would purr along to the sound of the music. I get the odd growl or brrr out of my Tiger but I often wonder what he's saying.
ReplyDeleteTigger scowls because he expects to get 'danced'.
DeleteMaybe I’ll see them when I visit London in a months time.
ReplyDeleteI love listening to buskers we have them in our city and I always try to stop and listen.
London has lots of buskers. The Waterloo ones look 'booked'. There is a place for them and there is only ever one at a time. There used to be a couple of super good places in the underground for buskers but COVID might have ended all that.
ReplyDeleteHari OM
ReplyDeleteGood to see aunty P is getting good gigs in Greece... and that young fellow is playing a Hang drum, Tigger dear, aka handpan. They make a lovely sound. If at all we get buskers around here they tend to be bagpipes... hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Sorry about the background noise but phone mics don't filter well. Why is the world so hard on buskers? Our urban spaces need them and they are usually darned good entertainers. Xxx F and Mr T
DeleteWe seldom see buskers here now - beggars, yes, but few singers. I believe in the city here they have to have a permit, so maybe that is why there is not many around.
ReplyDeleteF never could understand that permit thing. They are not selling food (or anything else you can take home come to that) and you don't even have to pay them if its not your thing but authorities treat them like pariahs.
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