$h!t buskers.

Mal-Adjusted · 09-06-2014 06:11PM #1

I was in town today and had the misfortune to hear one of the most awful buskers iv'e heard in a long time. He was in a grubby grey suit and singing into a microphone across from Eason. He had music playing as well but it was clear he was cringe-worthy. It's something i don't understand. Surely people know if they're any good or not? I can't sing to save my life but i know it and don't go making an ass of myself.

Just up the street there were two others, one with a drum (of sorts), the other with an acoustic guitar and, while they certainly weren't anything to write home about, they were clearly at least competent.

So I guess my question is, why do people go busking (or showing off a talent) when they clearly have no talent to begin with? I kind of felt sorry for the guy...but not as much as for the workers in the shops around.

El Weirdo · 09-06-2014 06:12PM

Was it Bono again?

A Greedy Algorithm · 09-06-2014 06:13PM

They think they are the best performers on Earth. You just have to watch X-Factor or Britain's Got Talent to see how many people actually think they have what it takes to make it big.

Go to speakers corner in London if you want to be amused - they don't even ask for your spare change.

Sky King · 09-06-2014 06:13PM

Did you ever see the guy with all the little motorised dolls and he sets them up and just babbles incoherently into the mike while they dance around?

Maphisto · 09-06-2014 06:15PM

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

So I guess my question is, why do people go busking (or showing off a talent) when they clearly have no talent to begin with? I kind of felt sorry for the guy...but not as much as for the workers in the shops around.

Lack of life choices, perhaps? Maybe it do this or don't eat.

Menas · 09-06-2014 06:26PM

Some buskers are very decent and well worth a listen to. Especially the classical ones.
The poor ones are relatively few and far between imo.

There used to be a couple of urchins on grafton st with a tin whistle making a sorry racket. Sad thing was their dad was always close bye keeping an eye out....first sight of a garda and the three of them were in the wind.

Turtyturd · 09-06-2014 06:33PM

Walk about town most days on my lunch and Henry Street is unbearable most times between Spider-man who stands there doing f*ck all, the Predator, the old man band, tattooed guy who hasn't got a note in his head, sand artist, the dance troupe who just block up the street, and the 'help me feed my drum addiction' guy.

Gongoozler · 09-06-2014 06:39PM

At least the buskers are trying something, actually doing something for the money. That spiderman dude, seriously? And those guys dressed up in black?

I get way too angry at this ****.

Alf. A. Male · 09-06-2014 06:40PM

I would love somewhere in Dublin like Covent Garden. One of the best days out anywhere.

09-06-2014 06:47PM

OP

http://youtu.be/9E62iA6KCIQ

mikeym · 09-06-2014 07:07PM

Rap about Mountjoy.

UCDVet · 09-06-2014 07:17PM

I just wish they had a better place for them. If you appreciate the performing arts or whatever, cool, go check them out. But I'd much rather see them in a section of Saint Stephen's Green than have them blocking the foot traffic of everyone trying to get past.

I could be wrong, but I've talked to a lot of people and nobody has ever mentioned going into city centre to watch people perform on the street. I always hear people mentioning running errands or going shopping.

Hotale.com · 09-06-2014 07:19PM

In my experience the best think they're the worst, and the worst think they're the best...

Hotale.com · 09-06-2014 07:20PM

UCDVet wrote: »

I just wish they had a better place for them. If you appreciate the performing arts or whatever, cool, go check them out. But I'd much rather see them in a section of Saint Stephen's Green than have them blocking the foot traffic of everyone trying to get past.

I could be wrong, but I've talked to a lot of people and nobody has ever mentioned going into city centre to watch people perform on the street. I always hear people mentioning running errands or going shopping.

I always head into Grafton Street for the buskers when I'm in Dublin, wouldn't head into Cork to specifically watch buskers though....

Maphisto · 09-06-2014 07:26PM

Is this just a Dublin, Cork, Galway maybe Waterford phenomena?

Admittedly I don't get out much but its a couple of years since I've even seen a busker.

There used to be an Asian woman beggar in Tesco's carpark but I think pickings were so slim that she eventually did what everyone had been suggesting to her.

Other than that I miss them

TheBegotten · 09-06-2014 07:30PM

Hotale.com wrote: »

I always head into Grafton Street for the buskers when I'm in Dublin, wouldn't head into Cork to specifically watch buskers though....

You don't get half as many though, and they don't put in half the effort...Like the last time I was in Dublin there was a man with an amazing strat doing an absolutely brilliant guitar rendition of Imagine in front of the shopping centre on Henry Street. That said, everyone was clustering around the young lad with an acoustic and a voice that could grate cheese...

dgt · 09-06-2014 07:30PM

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

I was in town today and had the misfortune to hear one of the most awful buskers iv'e heard in a long time. He was in a grubby grey suit and singing into a microphone across from Eason. He had music playing as well but it was clear he was cringe-worthy. It's something i don't understand. Surely people know if they're any good or not? I can't sing to save my life but i know it and don't go making an ass of myself.

Just up the street there were two others, one with a drum (of sorts), the other with an acoustic guitar and, while they certainly weren't anything to write home about, they were clearly at least competent.

So I guess my question is, why do people go busking (or showing off a talent) when they clearly have no talent to begin with? I kind of felt sorry for the guy...but not as much as for the workers in the shops around.

Not Navan is it? There's a pair of buskers attempting to play the guitar and sing, usually near Easons. On Saturday they move to the AIB.

It's cringeworthy

qweerty · 09-06-2014 07:31PM

Turtyturd wrote: »

Spider-man who stands there doing f*ck all...

That made me laugh uncontrollably.

Gannicus · 09-06-2014 07:41PM

mikeym wrote: »

Rap about Mountjoy.

He should be culled.

In fairness. My main gripe is more to do with the sheer amount of them on henry street. Between junkie rappers like him, flute bands, guitarists and your man using pots and plastic tubs as drums (him I quite like) its out and out noise pollution, you walk along the street and you hear an annoying mix-mash of them all playing together. How may of them even have applied for a licence to play on the streets.

Hotale.com · 09-06-2014 07:43PM

Big Steve wrote: »

He should be culled.

In fairness. My main gripe is more to do with the sheer amount of them on henry street. Between junkie rappers like him, flute bands, guitarists and your man using pots and plastic tubs as drums (him I quite like) its out and out noise pollution, you walk along the street and you hear an annoying mix-mash of them all playing together. How may of them even have applied for a licence to play on the streets.

To be honest I think it's fair enough without a license until some eejit comes along with a 200W amp and blows everyone out of it, it's unfair on both the other buskers and the public when people do that..

RobbingBandit · 09-06-2014 07:45PM

El Weirdo wrote: »

Was it Bono again?

Bono is too busy on a Sunday being worshipped as the son of god, yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,yeah,YEAH. :pac:

RobbingBandit · 09-06-2014 07:48PM

That guy with the trumpet outside dunnes on henry street is ****ing head melting, learn some new tunes or **** off and those flute guys are head wrecking.

MomijiHime · 09-06-2014 07:48PM

My friend and I went busking the other day for the first time and we were pretty ****ty but we got a bit of money for it so we'll probably do it again :P

Maphisto · 09-06-2014 07:49PM

This is way OT so sorry.

But seeing that guy from Cork reminded me:

Years ago in London my wife was organising the office party. She phoned up a place, quite posh and asked if there would be music. Oh yes was the reply.
"Well I don't just want a man playing with himself" said my wife. I think the woman on the other end didn't know whether to laugh or be shocked

ger vallely · 09-06-2014 07:51PM

Op-that has to be opposite Eason in Galway?The guy in question seems very confident in himself but I just don't get him.Each to their own and all that but he just confuses me!!

Gannicus · 09-06-2014 07:53PM

Hotale.com wrote: »

To be honest I think it's fair enough without a license until some eejit comes along with a 200W amp and blows everyone out of it, it's unfair on both the other buskers and the public when people do that..

I agree. It just annoys me to hear so many of them at once. For instance there's one lad he plays trumpet while he has a cd player blasting the song behind him and then the same clims playing the same 5 or 6 songs over and over again. I walk that street at least once a day and its alwful listening to them trying to play over each other.

Last thursday I went down to talbot street on my lunch and when walking back I saw 2 lads "playing" guitar near the meteor shop. Not 20 yards away you had mario playing on the keyboard (badly) then in a similar amount of distance away another fella playing guitar and he i can only assume girlfriend singing BADLY. Then at Ilac there was 2 skangers "battle rapping" and then a native american flute band who I really doubt are native american. Then your man with his pots and tubs. It sounds awful. Among all of this I'm leaving out the junkie youngone and or fella who write that giant stupid poxy poem about looking down on someone she/he is a personal annoyance of mine but she doesn't make any noise.

Schwiiing · 09-06-2014 07:59PM

There's an excellent group called The Atlantic Pirates who regularly perform on Shop Street in Galway but then you move up towards eyre Square and there's some tit beatboxing into a digeridoo.

Mal-Adjusted · 09-06-2014 08:37PM

dgt wrote: »

Not Navan is it? There's a pair of buskers attempting to play the guitar and sing, usually near Easons. On Saturday they move to the AIB.

It's cringeworthy

afraid not.

ger vallely wrote: »

Op-that has to be opposite Eason in Galway?The guy in question seems very confident in himself but I just don't get him.Each to their own and all that but he just confuses me!!

Bingo. at about five.

UCDVet · 09-06-2014 08:43PM

Hotale.com wrote: »

I always head into Grafton Street for the buskers when I'm in Dublin, wouldn't head into Cork to specifically watch buskers though....

Yeah - I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed to perform. I just feel like it would make more sense to put them in a place where people who want to see them, can. And where people who don't, don't.

Half the time I feel bad stopping because there is an army of people walking behind me, trying to go about their shopping. The rest of the time, I'm pissed because some chick with a guitar or five guys in black are standing still and people are stopping to look at them...and I'm just trying to the shop and get home.

UCDVet · 09-06-2014 08:50PM

MomijiHime wrote: »

My friend and I went busking the other day for the first time and we were pretty ****ty but we got a bit of money for it so we'll probably do it again :P

If you don't mind sharing - how much did you two make? I've really often wondered if it's a viable profession or if it's just pocket change or what. I realize it's not going to be the same for everyone and all that jazz - but yeah, I'd love to know how you did.

BrokenArrows · 09-06-2014 08:57PM

They should have a BQE - Buskers Quality Enforcer.
If you're **** you get the boot.

$h!t buskers.

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