Local heroes (Tramps/Buskers)

Superdude · 19 Oct 2006 at 12:40

After a great night at Buffalos with Cardiff's very own bin-drumming busker known as Ninjah, I was wondering what local tramps and buskers have become heroes in your area.

Cardiff normally has some amazing Buskers headed up by Ninjah and Toy Mic Trev but this year is something else. If you ever come up to Cardiff for the first time I fully recommend taking your time when walking up Queen Street.

Ninjah

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/ninjah/pages/biography.shtml

Toy Mic Trev

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=3727683

Rotty · 19 Oct 2006 at 12:51

We had an old geezer in Nottingham who used to play a toy xylophone ( very badly ) , unfortunately he is now busking outside the pearly gates

alexakasloth · 19 Oct 2006 at 12:53

There's an old guy who sits outside Burtons with his casio keyboard all day busking.

Efour · 19 Oct 2006 at 12:59

lol, i shouldn't laugh but, We had a mentaly ill young bloke (i assume) that used to sing elvis songs with his acoustic guitar. He was errrr.... really good.

jakeke · 19 Oct 2006 at 13:06

Johnny the body popping tramp in Sheffield. He body pops for $$

a1ex2001 · 19 Oct 2006 at 13:45

jakeke said:
Johnny the body popping tramp in Sheffield. He body pops for $$

Is that the nutter just off hunters bar roundabout on Eccy road? He's proper barmy and often beered up before I leave for work in the morning :eek:

got to respect anyman who has found a job that allows, no poritivley encourages him to be wasted bfore 9am :cool:

Stretch · 19 Oct 2006 at 14:03

I think this guy would beg to differ

Nathan, Cardiff
I've never read so much brown-nosing bull **** in my life. The guy's making a so-called 'living' out of playing the fool and couldn't keep a beat if his life depended on it. Rhythm? What rhythm? I've seen more in a quadroplegic tortoise. I sat opposite him in The Toucan Club at an Open Mic night once and he tapped loudly on his table with his drumsticks throughout the entire set of at least 10 artists, despite pleas from the audience, artists and staff to shut the **** up. What an obnoxious, arrogant, disrespectful and plain stupid fool. He needs to learn that he's not always the only person in the room worth listening to and that if he stopped desperately clammering for attention for a second he may learn something from those around him.

lol, take a chill pill winston

Rilot · 19 Oct 2006 at 14:14

We have the sooth sayer in Reading. A bearded guy who randomly shouts at dust bins etc. Not really famous but he is popular.

We're sure he was normal once but he worked out "the answer" and was so taken aback by this profoud revelation that he lost the power of speech.

sarutobi · 19 Oct 2006 at 14:19

Theres some old guy always hangs out by the cross at the main street. We call him scarecrow. He used to be an amazing drummer, like really professional. Now hes just a professional drinker.

dark_matter · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:07

Tramps and Buskers should be swept from the street along with all the other gutter trash. They are nothing but a menance and a nuisance.

penski · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:11

Rotty said:
We had an old geezer in Nottingham who used to play a toy xylophone ( very badly ) , unfortunately he is now busking outside the pearly gates

The first one who came to mind for me

RIP Xylophone man.

You still have the dude who jams outside H&M though.

Newcastle doesn't have many of note - Porn Star Tramp and Beardy Jesus Bloke are the only two that spring to mind.

Berwick has Sad Sack though - complete and utter legend of the 6'8", wiry, wearing-a-suit-tailored-for-a-short-fat-man style.

*n

Whitestar · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:17

Hear we have a couple.

There's Mushroom Mick (You can guess why). I don't think hes a busker. He walks about all day laughing to himself.

Mad Pam - Again not a busker. She will stand in the middle of the road and shout at manhole covers. If a car stops in front of her, she'll start shouting at the car (not the driver, ther car), kick it and then run off.

Stag · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:20

Rotty said:
We had an old geezer in Nottingham who used to play a toy xylophone ( very badly ) , unfortunately he is now busking outside the pearly gates

The xylophone man was and still is a legend, he'd hit about 2 or 3 notes on it and look up all proud!

Rotty · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:22

penski said:
Porn Star Tramp

sounds intriguing

Serj · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:23

We have Cat Wiesel in my home town of Ringwood in Hampshire. Rides a really old bike and shouts "quack quack" at everyone. Also known to stand around and dance to the music in Woolworths. Nutter.

Bumhucker · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:25

Rotty said:
We had an old geezer in Nottingham who used to play a toy xylophone ( very badly ) , unfortunately he is now busking outside the pearly gates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylophone_man

Legend.

Sp00n · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:29

There is some proper crazy man in winchester who walks around mumbling to himself then he has sudden outbursts of energy resulting in loud incoherant speech.

People from southampton/winchester must know who i'm talking about!

tom_nieto · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:36

Is Burping Ron still around in Winchester? He was out of his tree most of the time and sounds familiar to the person you're describing sp00n.

yer_averagejoe · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:49

man there was this amazing busker in stockhom. Apparently hes ALWAYS there and the locals try to avoid him. hes this really dirty old guy and in one hand he holds a pocket radio to his ear and in his other he blows random notes into 2 (yes, two) harmonicas while doing some crazy dance. One guy walked near him and he played into his face.

In dundee we have this guy who sings a lot of elvis and growls at people. he's cool, I was talking to him in a bus stop one day. he pointed to the ground at a sky leaflet and said "Look at that man, 'Sky' Why you gotta buy sky when all you gotta do is look up? Some people are crazy"

We also have this really rubbish trumpet player. He blows each note reeeally cleanly and it gets on my nerves. Its like hes just learning or something.

Have a couple of hot female students that play violin too.

Sp00n · 19 Oct 2006 at 15:49

tom_nieto said:
Is Burping Ron still around in Winchester? He was out of his tree most of the time and sounds familiar to the person you're describing sp00n.

YES! thats him!!! lol, he is a proper character!

Haven't been back to winch in a long time though so i don't know if he's still around, probably is as he always has been and probably always will be!