Annoying Grafton Street preformers

JK91 · 11-01-2014 10:53PM #1

I unfortunately have to pass through Grafton street a lot, and I don't mean that to suggest that I'm merely unfortunate for having to pass through another street in the capital, but rather having to be constantly bombarded by nuisance street performers. Granted there are a few of genuine talent, that fella who plays the electric guitar, no problem throwing a complimentary euro in the box there. And a few of the lads doing stuff like sand sculptures are a genuinely good addition to the street.

However, I'm talking about those pests, usually males from the age of 18- 25 who think they are god's gift to music. The scruffy hipster sorts who bring a guitar whereby they strum the same cord for 10 minutes on end, sing ****e songs that can only appeal to teenage girls.......whiny crappy lyrics, and no musical talent. Yet believing they are so talented that everybody who passes through this street everyday should revel in their supposed musical genius, when all they are is crap musicians who irritate the hell out passers-by.

Or the ones who sing crappy generic music with a D4 accent. Am I alone in seriously wanting to tell these muppets to f-off and stop their insidious noise pollution?

fussyonion · 11-01-2014 10:55PM

The worst are the statue people.
You want to be tipped for standing still and looking silver?

uch · 11-01-2014 10:55PM

I think they're Great

wazky · 11-01-2014 10:55PM

JK91 wrote: »

I'm talking about those pests, usually males from the age of 18- 25 who think they are god's gift to music. The scruffy hipster sorts who bring a guitar whereby they strum the same cord for 10 minutes on end, sing ****e songs that can only appeal to teenage girls.......whiny crappy lyrics, and no musical talent.

Sorry are you describing Grafton Street still or the music industry as a whole?

Red Kev · 11-01-2014 10:58PM

JK91 wrote: »

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Or the ones who sing crappy generic music with a D4 accent. Am I alone in seriously wanting to tell these muppets to f-off and stop their insidious noise pollution?

Why don't you just tell them to f*ck off, instead of just telling the internet that you want them to f*ck off ?

FWIW, I don't care how good or bad they are, everyone is entitled to do a bit of busking. They could keep the noise down and try to prevent their audience blocking up 90% of the width of the street. That would be nice.

Lapin · 11-01-2014 10:58PM

As I've said before in all the other Grafton St busker threads in the past, I don't mind buskers who don't use amplifiers.

Using amps is cheatin and those who do get no shillings from me.

vektarman · 11-01-2014 11:00PM

I think some of it is good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAXDwIM7OqI

Chazz Michael Michaels · 11-01-2014 11:01PM

There should auditions for busking spots, like London. The standard of busker in dublin is woeful.

cletus van damme · 11-01-2014 11:05PM

each day I walk down grafton street twice and I get an urge to shove pan pipes up somebodys hole.

oldyouth · 11-01-2014 11:06PM

I like a good quality busker myself. However, I know a couple of retailers who have resident performers at their doorstep who are truly wicked and it does have a negative effect on trade and they are powerless to shift them

Daqster · 11-01-2014 11:12PM

The ones that only show up on a Saturday bother me, that bring speaker systems and the like. Usually a bunch of pompous gits from Foxrock and the like.

True busking doesn't require amps, in fact, the kill the very essence of what it stands for.

If Mic Christopher didn't need one, then nobody needs one. It's a concert when you start dragging generators along. Even Glen Handsard and the rest don't use amps on Christmas Eve.

Even removing all that, they are so loud and intrusive, and it's downright obnoxious to think to blast out music on a public street. If your voice isn't good enough without being amplified, then you shouldn't be bloody busking.

jamesbondings · 11-01-2014 11:12PM

Buskers don't effect me.... Earphones in music blaring.... What wrecks my head is the chuggers.... Every day new school kids out looking for money for one thing or another.... Or the actual charity workers.... Ugh just piss off like

bonzodog2 · 11-01-2014 11:14PM

fussyonion wrote: »

The worst are the statue people.
You want to be tipped for standing still and looking silver?

I got a filthy look from one of these guys when I told him "Psst, you're on TV". Made him look round!

Duckworth_Luas · 11-01-2014 11:15PM

fussyonion wrote: »

The worst are the statue people.
You want to be tipped for standing still and looking silver?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnjqMQKUbVc

Aphex · 11-01-2014 11:31PM

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnjqMQKUbVc

What a cocky dickhead. Loved the ending

11-01-2014 11:34PM

There' a guy on henry street who dresses up like mario and plays tunes from it

WoollyRedHat · 11-01-2014 11:42PM

I've seen some wonderful and strange things on Henry Street. It truly is a place full of surprises.

Chazz Michael Michaels wrote: »

There should auditions for busking spots, like London. The standard of busker in dublin is woeful.

YEah, same idea on the NY Subway

Sulla Felix · 11-01-2014 11:59PM

The original statue guys were ok, but these days they wear masks and stuff which is cheating imo.

Speakers should be banned. There's a lad who tries sinatra and stuff with a backing track and I think he jacks up the track to cover his woeful singing. But then again there's a deadly electric guitarist, so without his gear dunno if he'd be as good just acoustic.

the groutch · 12-01-2014 12:08AM

what annoys me more is the invisible impenitrable forcefield they create that people have to stand staring at them in the circle taking up 95% of the street, making it nearly impossible for anyone to get past.

12-01-2014 12:08AM

The Diceman, well known in Dublin, was the best imho

keithclancy · 12-01-2014 12:09AM

Happens everywhere, this was in a Train in Venlo (near the German Border)

http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6580244/e136dd57/gekkigheid_in_de_trein.html

hatrickpatrick · 12-01-2014 12:13AM

You certainly sound like great craic, OP

Stojkovic · 12-01-2014 12:18AM

Jake1 wrote: »

The Diceman, well known in Dublin, was the best imho

Died from AIDS.

weiland79 · 12-01-2014 12:21AM

bluewolf wrote: »

There' a guy on henry street who dresses up like mario and plays tunes from it

I work on liffey street, just off the corner of henry street, and i can say with hand on heart that he is fvcking sh!t. I mean i get it with the costume gimmick and all but that doesn;t take away the fact that he's fvcking sh!t.

In fact id struggle to find any that are any use. It's the same crap songs over and over and over, with the speakers up so loud that you can't talk to customers without raising your voice.

Christ i could name them all.

The Fvcking break dancing troop that rock up everyday at about 4 o'clock and blast out some **** music and throw themselves around the ground in the most pathetic display of break dancing I've ever seen.

The tall ginger cvnt that belts out the popular song of the day over and over, and then his little bollix mates turn up and they murder a few songs too.

The rapping junkie(see above) who you see around for a few days on the trot then i'm sure he pawns his speaker and mic for a fix, does a bit of B and E gets caught. Disappears for Three months to the joy, where he writes another half a dozen **** numbers. Then upon his return, he's back up to the pawn to collect his speaker and the world has turned once again!

somuj · 12-01-2014 12:26AM

You def should not come to Australia. If it bothers you that much why not do some kind of honour killing? Must be some book somewhere that justifys killing an annoying busker.

JK91 · 12-01-2014 12:37AM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

You certainly sound like great craic, OP

Epic sarky fail, if Grafton street was visited everyday by genuine talent, particularly good guitar playing talent, then I would visit the place just for the sake of it. Given that half of them are teenage clowns from D4 singing hipster wuss rock nonsense that appeals to girls below the age of 20, but p!sses everybody else off, then I think I have a point.

smurgen · 12-01-2014 12:49AM

Dublin city forum?

12-01-2014 12:55AM

That Japanese guy with his "authentic" dress and dance accompanied by disturbing guttural noises.

Chazz Michael Michaels · 12-01-2014 12:57AM

gvn wrote: »

That Japanese guy with his "authentic" dress and dance accompanied by disturbing guttural noises.

Very odd, that.

Hangballlouie · 12-01-2014 01:06AM

weiland79 wrote: »

I work on liffey street, just off the corner of henry street, and i can say with hand on heart that he is fvcking sh!t. I mean i get it with the costume gimmick and all but that doesn;t take away the fact that he's fvcking sh!t.

In fact id struggle to find any that are any use. It's the same crap songs over and over and over, with the speakers up so loud that you can't talk to customers without raising your voice.

Christ i could name them all.

The Fvcking break dancing troop that rock up everyday at about 4 o'clock and blast out some **** music and throw themselves around the ground in the most pathetic display of break dancing I've ever seen.

The tall ginger cvnt that belts out the popular song of the day over and over, and then his little bollix mates turn up and they murder a few songs too.

The rapping junkie(see above) who you see around for a few days on the trot then i'm sure he pawns his speaker and mic for a fix, does a bit of B and E gets caught. Disappears for Three months to the joy, where he writes another half a dozen **** numbers. Then upon his return, he's back up to the pawn to collect his speaker and the world has turned once again!

But how do you really feel?

donegal__road · 12-01-2014 01:15AM

I have seen some pretty poor performers on Grafton St.
but this guy is one of the best buskers I have seen anywhere, and he plays regularly on Grafton St.

As someone mentioned before, there should be some sort of standards authority that a street performer has to audition to.. I think they have that system in Toronto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiHmnu4jMHw

Annoying Grafton Street preformers

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