Finally, someone says what we all knew already

[Happy Jack]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2v0l38mgro

[Hellzero]

Most of the radios are doing the same on a daily basis...

 

Thankfully, most of the time you can turn them off, unlike these public nuisances daring to call themselves musicians.

[Eldon Tyrell]

Totally agree with the judge 👍

 

 

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, Hellzero said:

Most of the radios are doing the same on a daily basis...

 

Thankfully, most of the time you can turn them off, unlike these public nuisances daring to call themselves musicians.

 

Unless they are controlled by builders, who for some reason need to play whatever mainstream music station as loud as it can be played.

[tauzero]

Prohibit amplified busking. Also, when buskers are being prosecuted, tell the judgethat they were protesting for Just Stop Oil and their sentences will start at five years.

[AlexDelores]

This was posted on April 1st… 

 

Was the Journo in fact listening to Global radio and sick of hearing the same song on repeat and decided to get back at them with a good old fashioned April Fools? 🤔

[Supernaut]

Much prefer the religious fanatics anyway. 

[SumOne]

11 hours ago, AlexDelores said:

This was posted on April 1st… 

 

Was the Journo in fact listening to Global radio and sick of hearing the same song on repeat and decided to get back at them with a good old fashioned April Fools? 🤔

 

It definitely seems ironic for Global Radio (Capital, Heart, Gold) to be complaining about repetitive poor quality music.

[asingardenof]

18 hours ago, tauzero said:

Prohibit amplified busking. 

Yes, very much this!

 

When I used to work in the centre of Truro there was a "busker" who "played" sort of flamenco-y guitar, and he'd more or less set up right outside our office (we were on the first floor). I say "played" because it was blantantly obvious that he wasn't playing live but was miming over a pre-recorded version, and his PA was so obnoxiously loud that we knew that within certain times of day whenever we'd get phone calls we'd have to tell callers - including important clients - that we'd have to call them back later because holding a conversation would be impossible without yelling over the noise. We complained to the council several times, and on his Facebook page, but all to nought.

[lozkerr]

19 hours ago, tauzero said:

Prohibit amplified busking.

Absolutely this. Up to the end of last year, we were living on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. When the festivals came back after covid, every wee guitar hero prick turned up with an amp cranked to eleven. By the end of the first week, we'd given them all names, none of which were polite. Acoustic secondary glazing did manage to reduce our stress levels from 'imminent homicide' to 'annoyance' but of course that meant we couldn't open a window in summer. The street performers got in on the act too, last year. Every one of them had a wireless headset and an amp whereas before they just used to talk loudly.

 

I absolutely loathe amplified busking.

[cetera]

20 hours ago, tauzero said:

Prohibit amplified busking. Also, when buskers are being prosecuted, tell the judgethat they were protesting for Just Stop Oil and their sentences will start at five years.

Ah, but the buskers could deny it and tell the judge that they are protesting Farmers having to pay inheritence tax.... and they will get off scot-free

 

[chriswareham]

When I had to commute daily in the pre COVID times, there was a lady busker at Bond Street Underground station. She was absolutely terrible, which surprised me as you have to pass an audition to get a busking license on TfL property. I only had to endure a few minutes each day of her, but I shudder to think what her amplified caterwauling was doing to the station staff.

[stewblack]

Always heartwarming to read such supportive posts towards fellow musicians.

[BassApprentice]

9 minutes ago, stewblack said:

Always heartwarming to read such supportive posts towards fellow musicians.

That's a bit disingenious.

 

We all have passed or heard some very talented buskers in our time which is nice, but similarly there are the ones who where music seems a foreign concept they are wrestling with.

 

But this issue here isn't necessarily the talent, it's the now widely available battery powered amps that can last all day at decent volumes while the buskers have an extremely limited set list.

[Alanko]

53 minutes ago, stewblack said:

Always heartwarming to read such supportive posts towards fellow musicians.

They are musicians in the same way that McDonalds line cooks are chefs. 

[christhammer666]

have we forgotten that buskers are fellow aspiring musos ?

 

there is a chap who plays bass in pagham near the market, he is amazing very john myung like. i actually stopped and got a coffee to watch him one day

[BigRedX]

1 hour ago, stewblack said:

Always heartwarming to read such supportive posts towards fellow musicians.

 

IMO there is nothing intrinsically special about musicians and live music, unless you have absolutely no filter.

 

Appreciation of music is entirely subjective and I personally do not want to be subjected to music I don't like.

 

One of reasons I am a musician and composer is so that I can move the balance of music I like and music I don't like very slightly closer to music I do like.

[BassApprentice]

1 minute ago, christhammer666 said:

have we forgotten that buskers are fellow aspiring musos ?

 

there is a chap who plays bass in pagham near the market, he is amazing very john myung like. i actually stopped and got a coffee to watch him one day

No - but there also people who aren't as talented playing at high volumes all day.

 

Before you needed a generator to busk at volume. Now you can have a battery powered PA delivered to you by Amazon relatively cheaply.

[asingardenof]

1 hour ago, stewblack said:

Always heartwarming to read such supportive posts towards fellow musicians.

Happy to support fellow musicians when they aren't creating noise nuisance

[Hellzero]

1 hour ago, stewblack said:

Always heartwarming to read such supportive posts towards fellow musicians.

This a totally false assessment, because most of the time these noise makers are absolutely not musicians and also because there's no need to defeaned people with what you're doing, which for there's even a term: incivility.

 

To be called a musician you need to make music and music doesn't exist without some mandatory rules like melody, tempo and harmony, but most of the time (no pun intended) what they are doing is only about tempo confused with rhythm, lacking melody and harmony.

 

And don't get me into the in tune territory...

 

It may sound quite straight or harsh, but that's what it is: an 80% public nuisance for 20% music, so sometimes you may be lucky and enjoy a coffee while listening to music, but most of the time you have to run away as fast as you can to save your ears if not your hearing system.

[tauzero]

2 hours ago, stewblack said:

Always heartwarming to read such supportive posts towards fellow musicians.

 

Amplified busking means that people working in the vicinity are having it thrust upon them regardless of the merits of the busker in question. I'm not opposed to unamplified busking, I've done it myself.

[chriswareham]

6 hours ago, stewblack said:

Always heartwarming to read such supportive posts towards fellow musicians.

 

The lady I described in my comment is an objectively awful musician. Her guitar is out of tune and looks like it desperately needs new strings, while her "singing" is even more out of tune than her guitar. The volume she plays at is loud enough to make me wince and even more focused than it would be outdoors as she's in a long connecting corridor between two tube lines.

[pete.young]

Whenever I hear a busker, I ask myself 2 questions. Could I do that? Would I want to?

 

If it's No and Yes in that order, I always give them some money.

[Dan Dare]

7 hours ago, stewblack said:

Always heartwarming to read such supportive posts towards fellow musicians.

 

Fellow owners of musical instruments, more like.