Busking is our career…..so don’t roll your eyes when we ask for money. —DigDeepFor$$
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2010.
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wow are you just trying to stir the shit dude; welly welly well busking is your CAREER is it right than; your folks must be proud at such a wise choice 🙂
Busking is not a career. If someone gives you money appreciate it. If someone doesn’t give you money, that’s what you get for not performing in an enclosed space where the only way you can be seen is to buy a ticket for entrance. Of course, most buskers suck so much they’d never get to that level anyway.
Show me the law where I have to give you any fucking money. If I want to give, I will. You bug the shit out of me and you’ll get something you won’t be expecting.
You are far closer to being a panhandler than someone who actually works, pays taxes, etc so lose the ‘tude, shove your sense of entitlement up your crack pipe and keep on rockin’ in the free world. You want gratitude; pick up street garbage between sets. That would be far better received than another crap version of “House of the Rising Fucking Sun”
yeah,a big loser career…only flaky people perform like trained seals!!!!I avoid the busker festival like the plague,wish it would die out….too crowded and rude performers!!!!!
Maybe if the shows were any good I’d donate a few bucks..not the “reccomended 20”
wtf for a short show like that? Thats an hour and a half of my day going to you..and all you did was jump around and look like a moron.
No fucking thank you. Get a job and contribute to society like the rest of us.
get a job, you bum.
Bum Buskers lol
I’m personally going to spit on every 50th busker.
And really, OP, your playing a guitar on the sidewalk is not the same as the fire-eaters, contortionists, performers we’re privy to at the Busker Festival. Not like you went to university and got a degree to busk.
yes fats, and the difference between a busker and a panhandler is an art’s degree
sorry ma-you are exempt^^
Fuck, paingirl, that remark earns you best RawkRawk of the month! Thanks for the belly laugh.
no problem, i cannot lay claim to that gem…the bear made it up. he has a nice hairy chest, and no chia ass hair
ALL of you WISH you could play an instrument well enough to entertain others so just STFU. First you don’t want to pay for music since you can steal it, I mean, download it and then you don’t want to pay cover to hear it live and now… Sweet Jesus! Are there no REAL musicians on this board?
I’m with the OP. Most of you would rather be separated from your fingernails than be separated from your iPods or mp3 collections while music does not grow on trees nor come from universities.
Jawohl! Die Bar ist eine mensch. Das Rawk, Das Rawk.
i don’t have either an ipod nor an mp3 collection, but i can play the alto sax and i have a sweet drum kit in my basement but sadly, it is silent for now*sob* bonjour ivan
The only instrument I can play is the one eyed piccolo or the skin flute, so Kay GGB
aha, the one-eyed trouser snake… the universal instrument
Guten Morgen Agonizmusmaedchen. I’m picturing a lovingly tended drum kit in a corner and a pair of sticks without an owner. Getting a real Christmas Carol vibe and ,like Lifesucks, there’s something in my eye.
*Sniff Rawk* Proud Mama Corbie.
I agree with the OP.
I see a lot of people scrambling away at the end of a show to avoid paying.
Regardless of how good the show was.
I support buskers. They put a lot of time and effort into their acts. The only difference between then and any other performer is they’re doing it outdoors.
They also get to travel. This is how they chose to make a living.
At least they’re working for their money.
The comparison to bums or “Squeegy Kids”, who actually have homes and mostly are out in the summer bumming because they’re too lazy to actually work, is erroneous.
But what can you do, that’s what Nova Scotia does best, supporting the lazy and cheap, and complain about the few good things left in this place. You never know, we might just lose that festival!
Obviously most of you think Busker Fest sucks and shouldn’t be here!
So Mr./Ms. Busker, maybe you learned something today!
..and thank you Baz. Kayz comment made me think of the only line I still remember from Dante’s Inferno.
“He made a trumpet of his rump.”
FYP still pays dividends even 30 years on.
the buskers were once a lot more fun…then the corporate sponsors came and took away the feeling
Kay, you’re stupid. Go back to bed and never wake up again.
“So Mr/Ms. Busker, maybe you learned something today!”
You mean, over and above what they learned in those 4 years of Interprative Dance.
Well here’s another gem of free wisdom.
EVERBODY FUCKING WELL HATES MIMES!
…and they smell like pimento loaves
I don’t mind paying the buskers at all. I mean, they make me laugh etc. for the moment. It’s all fun and entertaining, and I have absolutely no problem throwing 2$ or 5$ their way. I do however hate when they say, and I quote “I don’t want your small change, my act is worth at least 10$. Please don’t give me your change” ok then. You won’t get my change. Pfft.
I heat up pennies with a small blowtoch and toss them at the jugglers and stilt-walkers. It makes a pedestrian and formulaic act a tad more entertaining.
ParasailingDonkey, I believe they’re speaking of dimes and nickels and quarters.
I have seen people actually pay 50 cents! Seriously these acts are worth more than 50 cents.
Last summer there were these guys from Ottawa, I swear they were the best I’ve seen in years. I gave each $10. That’s all I can afford. If I could afford more. I would have given more.
I like the buskers but hate like the crowds…
Pain girl said “the buskers were once a lot more fun…then the corporate sponsors came and took away the feeling”
I agree.
Buskers are in a public space. I can stop or not. If I stop I am not obligated to pay anything.
We need an adult version of Buskers…….like the ping-pong-ball-popping girl, but to make it Maritime-related replace the ping-pong balls with buoys.
Usually when people have “careers” they don’t have to ask money… they just kinda get paid…
…just sayin’