Liverpool Buskers and Street Performers

[Kev]

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[ChrisGeorge]

Fine photos, Kev! Well done! :PDT11

Chris

[Kev]

Thankyou very much :)

[Howie]

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[Kev]

Exellent Howie :PDT11

[Howie]

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[Kev]

Excellent Howie, cheers :)

[gregs dad]

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In Lord St today,they were playing one of my favourite tunes "LA PALOMA"
over and over again. The groups are getting bigger

[Howie]

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[Howie]

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[Howie]

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[Kev]

Cheers Howie, these pics put a smile on my face, especially when you catch them smiling too :)

[Howie]

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Morris dancing groups entertain shoppers in Liverpool city centre
May 18 2009
by Lorna Hughes, Liverpool Daily Post

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MORRIS dancing groups took to the streets of Liverpool city centre.

The day of traditional English dance was organised by the Southport Swords and the all-female Mockbeggar Morris Dancers.

The all-day event saw eight dance groups performing in Liverpool One, Williamson Square, Albert Dock and Church Street on Saturday.

Dave Roberts, of Southport Swords, said: ?The idea was to show people how to dance and hopefully some will join us.?

Source: Liverpool Daily Post (http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2009/05/18/morris-dancing-groups-entertain-shoppers-in-liverpool-city-centre-92534-23646632/) :)

[Samp]

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In Lord St today,they were playing one of my favourite tunes "LA PALOMA"
over and over again. The groups are getting bigger

Are they being smuggled in, in the music cases, do you think?

[robt]

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On the preview for Britains Got Talent next week there was someone doing a part of his act with a case very similar to his on the stage - it could be him.

[gregs dad]

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We seem to be attracting a better class of busker in Church St

[gregs dad]

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Church St Buskers seem to be getting younger or I`m getting older.
I like the collection bucket money goes in but none can come out

[wsteve55]

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Church St Buskers seem to be getting younger or I`m getting older.
I like the collection bucket money goes in but none can come out

Ha,youthful innovation at it's best! :nod:

[naked lilac]

He does look very young to be having to sit and play music for a few bob..but, maybe he enjoys it.. Wonder if the umbrella was his mums idea?:002:

[Howie]

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[pablo42]

Nice one Howie. Love to see his act. Can't have much of a repetoire though.

[Birdy]

Pharaoh at Albert Dock - took this on Sunday, thought he was very good

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[pablo42]

Pharaoh at Albert Dock - took this on Sunday, thought he was very good

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Nice one Birdy, not seen him before.

[lindylou]

Pharaoh at Albert Dock - took this on Sunday, thought he was very good

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wow, he looks great. They should have him in the museum.

[underworld]

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Aggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, thats him!

[lindylou]

The guy with his head in a bucket.
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[lindac8941]

I loved the Peruvian type indians and their pan pipes. Saw some in Majorca last year, and I could stand and listen to them for hours. Also the two young rock guys, one has got a hand missing. They are superb too.

[lindylou]

I loved the Peruvian type indians and their pan pipes. Saw some in Majorca last year, and I could stand and listen to them for hours. Also the two young rock guys, one has got a hand missing. They are superb too.

Like these in Fuengirola :)

[pablo42]

I loved the Peruvian type indians and their pan pipes. Saw some in Majorca last year, and I could stand and listen to them for hours. Also the two young rock guys, one has got a hand missing. They are superb too.

Them guys in Church Street really get me feet tapping.

[lindylou]

Church st.

Can anyone work out how this 'living statue' holds his pose ! ??
How does he maintain that sitting position with no seat !! He stays in this pose for ages without so much as a slight wobble !
I can guarantee that there is no 'invisible' seat - it's just fresh air bleow him ! I don't know how it's done http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/rubinda/avatars/e20301.gif

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[pablo42]

It's a frame thing on his legs. Seen this before somewhere.

[Didi]

Wow, there are so many interesting performers in Liverpool! Sorry, but do you know, that if you will film them with any device you have you can win a digital camera? I'm working for R&R Music and running the buskers competition. The rules are simple -

1. Film the street performer you like
2. Upload your video to YouTube
3. Paste the code here - http://randrworld.com/buskers.php

Each month we will reward with a digital camera the person who submits the video and story that receives the most votes during that month from the users of R&R World Arena.

Try yourself! :)

[wsteve55]

Here's a couple of pic's of a fire eater,in Church st, last Saturday!

[Mossy]

That guy in the sitting position is dead good i aint seen that
before

Mossy

[wsteve55]

That guy in the sitting position is dead good i aint seen that
before

Mossy
:unibrow:

[lindylou]

Busker in town today.

[gregs dad]

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Church St buskers

[lindylou]

Saw this old chap in Paradise st today.
I felt sorry for him -he looked so bedraggled and frail ! The music he was playing was so feint you could hardly hear it !
He looked to me like he should have been in a comfy armchair somewhere - not hanging around the town.
It's a shame !

[naked lilac]

Maybe Lindylou... He feels alive getting out and playing his violin to whoever wants to listen.. He at least had music in his soul, and a lovely violin to play... Frail, maybe... full of music....priceless.... Hope you gave him a few bob..

[lindylou]

yes I give him some of my change :)

[robbo176]

Saw this old chap in Paradise st today.
I felt sorry for him -he looked so bedraggled and frail ! The music he was playing was so feint you could hardly hear it !
He looked to me like he should have been in a comfy armchair somewhere - not hanging around the town.
It's a shame !

I took a photo of him a couple of weeks ago ,I've never seen him play as everytime I've gone past him he's standing over his case trying to get his violin out
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/robbo176/coopers/DSCF6234.jpg

[naked lilac]

He does look clean... Just a musical olde soul.. Love it...

[gregs dad]

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Liverpool busker (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5874041476/) by exacta2a (http://www.flickr.com/people/exacta2a/), on Flickr

Seen in Church St today, couldn`t play at Wimbledon so picked a "racket" in Lverpool, the 17th string was a bit flat though.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Joe

Is that just a gag or does he actually get some sound out of it?

Chris

[lindylou]

He's trying to copy 'plink plink' - the famous cardboard guitar character.

[gregs dad]

Hi Joe

Is that just a gag or does he actually get some sound out of it?

Chris

See the cd player on the floor Chris,the funny thing is,the tune coming out of it was Acker Bilk`s "Stranger on the shore"


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Jacko from liverpool (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/2243796923/) by exacta2a (http://www.flickr.com/people/exacta2a/), on Flickr
For you Linda "Jacko" as I knew him with his new guitar when he went upmarket

[Gerard Fleming]

Any body remember Harry Bendon ?
the busker from outside GH Lee in Liverpool in the 70's ?

follow the link below for more Harry Bendon photos outside GH Lee..

.... a little info about Harry that is not well known around Liverpool..
Harry was born in Glasgow.. he topped the bill at the Glasgow Empire after the war
as a child performer under the stage name of 'Boy McLean'

Harry passed away in 1994 in a West Yorkshire nursing home.. he was 74..



This is >> Harry Bendon.. (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?album=52&pos=12)




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Jackson Nesbitt.. Jacko...the story in your eyes..

..... and a bit of info on my old friend Jacko...
he was fed and looked after daily by my good mate Tony Bolland..
when Tony managed Hessy's on Stanley St...
Tony gave Jacko his 1st cut out guitar in Hessy's
.. and that was that.. he was off and away..!



Best viewed very large.. on >>> Here (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3174&fullsize=1)..





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[ChrisGeorge]

Very fine, Joe and Gerard. I had seen that photograph of Jacko performing at the Eleanor Rigby monument but Gerard's photograph of him is new to me. As you say, Gerard, there is a story in those eyes.

All the best

Chris

[Gerard Fleming]

Very fine, Joe and Gerard. I had seen that photograph of Jacko performing at the Eleanor Rigby monument but Gerard's photograph of him is new to me. As you say, Gerard, there is a story in those eyes.

All the best

Chris



Thanks Chris, that photo Chris was taken outside Mother Care on Whitechapel.

Not long after Jackson was beaten up by low life and was almost left for dead..
he was in the Royal for a long time and later a nursing home..
he's out now... or was, I'm not sure how he is or where he is
as he has not been seen around the town for a long while.




talking of which...
I'm off out... to capture Liverpools past today..


Cheers Chris...


Gerard..

[ChrisGeorge]

In Jacko's Eyes

As you say, there's a whole world in there.
In the photo, he's unshaven with battered

straw hat, smoking a filter-tip cigarette,
his white eyebrows shooting out wildly.

We remember him at the Eleanor Rigby statue,
on the bench sitting next to her bronze figure,

strumming his cut-out cardboard guitar.
"Ah, look at all the lonely people!"

Christopher T. George

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"Jackson Nesbitt.. Jacko...the story in your eyes..."
Close-up portrait of Jacko (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3174&fullsize=1) by Gerard Fleming

Photograph of Jacko (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/2243796923/sizes/o/in/photostream/) performing at the Eleanor
Rigby Statue, Liverpool, by Joe Neary.

[Gerard Fleming]

In Jacko's Eyes

As you say, there's a whole world in there.
In the photo, he's unshaven with battered

straw hat, smoking a filter-tip cigarette,
his white eyebrows shooting out wildly.

We remember him at the Eleanor Rigby statue,
on the bench sitting next to her bronze figure,

strumming his cut-out cardboard guitar.
"Ah, look at all the lonely people!"

Christopher T. George

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"Jackson Nesbitt.. Jacko...the story in your eyes..."
Close-up portrait of Jacko (http://liverpooldays.com/photo/displayimage.php?pid=3174&fullsize=1) by Gerard Fleming

Photograph of Jacko (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/2243796923/sizes/o/in/photostream/) performing at the Eleanor
Rigby Statue, Liverpool, by Joe Neary.



Thats brilliant that Chris mate..
thanks for using my words about Jacko for the title.. :PDT11


Gerard.

[ChrisGeorge]

Thanks, Gerard. I thought you'd probably like the poem.

Chris

[Ronijayne]

I took a photo of him a couple of weeks ago ,I've never seen him play as everytime I've gone past him he's standing over his case trying to get his violin out
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/robbo176/coopers/DSCF6234.jpg

Doesn't anyone ever help him?

[Gerard Fleming]

Thanks, Gerard. I thought you'd probably like the poem.

Chris

My pleasure mate..

[lindylou]

Thanks for the pics GD and Gerard. It saves me the job of hunting for a pic :)
I was going to try and find one to post up after I'd mentioned 'Plink, Plink'

[robbo176]

I think this fella is good ......he just stands or sits for hours :)

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IMG_0078 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandy-robbo/5879012788/) by robbo176 (http://www.flickr.com/people/mandy-robbo/), on Flickr

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IMG_0077 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandy-robbo/5878447159/) by robbo176 (http://www.flickr.com/people/mandy-robbo/), on Flickr

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6058/5879007232_d02f43ddd7.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandy-robbo/5879007232/)
IMG_0072 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandy-robbo/5879007232/) by robbo176 (http://www.flickr.com/people/mandy-robbo/), on Flickr

[lindylou]

yeah, he's amazing :)