MrMotivator Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Saw these on the Evening Express and STV web sites:http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/3075207http://news.stv.tv/north/209035-buskers-could-be-forced-to-enter-x-factor-style-auditions-in-aberdeen/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitterLove how the Evening Express have "TALENTED" in the caption for the picture of the bagpipe player! Do you think Aberdeen buskers should face X Factor style auditions before they are allowed to perform? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 5 hours a day and he's still fucking shite!If it means he'll be stopped then I'm all for it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 X Factor style auditions? How would that work exactly? I smell shite, the council cannot have come up with this idea. something must have been taken out of context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Presumably it'll be like the first couple of series' of the x factor. Couple of council bods in a room will listen to you play and decide if you're allowed to busk or if you're too shite.EDIT: Might be the same setup as Edinburgh during the fringe where you can apply for a spot, etc?xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Knob Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 What a load of tosh. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 It's fairly common in a lot of big cities to stop fuckwits like that bagpipe cretin or guitar wifie making dischordant racket in the streets and expecting paid for it.xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bob Knob Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 I know. I've just been dying to use the word "tosh". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 It's fairly common in a lot of big cities to stop fuckwits like that bagpipe cretin or guitar wifie making dischordant racket in the streets and expecting paid for it.xxIt's a free market economy - plenty entities out there providing crap products and crap service that people keep paying for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 The worst part about bad piper is that the pipes are so fucking loud. You can hear the useless cunt from miles away. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 It's a free market economy - plenty entities out there providing crap products and crap service that people keep paying for.True, but if I walked up to strangers and shouted in their faces, that'd be harassment or breach of the peace or some shit. The argument in favour of busking is essentially the same thing.xx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMotivator Posted January 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 5 hours a day and he's still fucking shite!If it means he'll be stopped then I'm all for it.Provided nobody from the Evening Express or the council is on the judging panel, we should be safe! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 True, but if I walked up to strangers and shouted in their faces, that'd be harassment or breach of the peace or some shit. The argument in favour of busking is essentially the same thing.xxI've never seen a busker do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 I've never seen a busker do this.Perhaps "aggressive street poetry" could be the first trend of 2013. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 I've never seen a busker do this.Of course not - that's an extreme example. However, I'd probably have someone shouting at me for a moment that have to tolerate out of tune, shitty bagpipe playing audible along a massive chunk of union street. I feel so sorry for the poor fuckers working in the places across the road from that wanker.Although - I also think that the preachers and all those dicks should also have to apply for legal permission to be cunty. I just hate people.xx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 OFF TOPIC: OP, can you please arrange to use this for your avatar? Thx 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 In my experience I have found that people who have clipboards are far more persistent and annoying than any busker. They chase you along the street until you have said no ten times and then you're a bastard because you're not signing up to this charity direct debit of which the charity only sees a tenth of the money. Now that to me is way more annoying than any busker. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 I feel so sorry for the poor fuckers working in the places across the road from that wanker.There used to be a busker - I use the term loosely as I have heard him before - outside the missus' work who apparently only knew the first verse and chorus to David Bowie's "Starman". To hear that as soon as you step outside is probably worse than having Northsound One on at work all day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 In my experience I have found that people who have clipboards are far more persistent and annoying than any busker. They chase you along the street until you have said no ten times and then you're a bastard because you're not signing up to this charity direct debit of which the charity only sees a tenth of the money. Now that to me is way more annoying than any busker.I have no problems with buskers, just ones that can't actually play their instrument. If the piper could actually play to a listenable standard it would be fine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboy Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Yeah I heckled the piper on the way home from seeing the hobbit, he was playing his god awful version of flower of Scotland - all out of tune and generally displeasing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 There used to be a mint busker on Buchanan Street in Glasgow. Black dude, played a black and white Strat. mint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatboy Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Best thing about glasgow buskers are when junkies end up dancing along with them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eupraxia Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 Best thing about glasgow buskers are when junkies end up dancing along with them.That only happens in Aberdeen, from my experience. Especially that repugnant individual who just roars out Stone Roses and Oasis songs. Dunno if he's still kicking around these days, but he used to stand outside (or slightly inside) the recessed entrance to the Trinity Centre and religiously stick to songs with open G A E D C and F chords. He attracted the lowest common denominator every Friday and Saturday night. All congregated in one small area of Union Street, singing shit songs and being tribally aggressive in unison. Grim times. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 That pretty much describes most pub rock bands too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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