Amplified buskers

LapsypaCork wrote: »

Yep, she’s still around, at her usual perch outside Minehans Chemist. I work nearby and out of all the noises to get into your brain, it’s her wailing voice. I’m so serious when I say this, but the constant sound of her voice while your trying to work has led people to cry. I’d sure love to meet the person who told her she could sing…

the beer revolu wrote: »

Whatever about the likes of me getting annoyed walking around town, workers in town must be driven demented by the noise.
Shows how subjective it is, too. While I've never enjoyed that busker, she's never particularly annoyed me, either, yet she's brought others to tears.
You can't legislate for taste but you can for volume, very simply.

Plenty of people can't hold a beat, or don't have rhythm, it's not natural for everyone. Similar to being tone-deaf or people who can't match or recognise a note. Probably helping out some friends.

If I'm cynical about it, being on a street for years, rather than getting a few gigs probably indicates the standard.

Yes, far too many in town yesterday, heaps in Patrick street, and they were so loud walking past them actually hurt our ears. It was just noise pollution.

We were buying a couple of donuts on Oliver plunkett street, the guy in the shop couldn’t hear us, we couldn’t hear him. With masks you can’t lip read. The busker stopped and the shop guy said Oh thank god that’s over, that has been going for hours.

Between the visual noise of signage and dilapidation, the physical noise of sandwich boards, that lighting with the huge pavement footprint, robot trees , street furniture , the audible noise from the buskers, plus the smell of the place, it’s quite a wallop on the senses in there. I find it annoying to navigate town at the moment and I’m an able bodied person.

Whats the story with the flowers etc on the ground near bt door where buskers used to play.

Was in a European city over the last few days… very few buskers , I saw one guy with a guitar on a corner, who moved after a few mins. I asked a colleague what the story was with buskers there. They have a rule, 15 minutes of public performance is allowed. Any more than that and there’s a fine of 5000 euro. So because electrical gear takes so long to set up, it’s usually just a singer or a guitar and they move along quickly.

There's an old lad who wears a cowboy hat and "plays" the guitar around town. He can neither sing nor play to save his life. He's regularly on the same bus as me, always jumps to the top of the queue and all through Covid/lockdown never once did I see him wearing a mask on the bus. Feel like hopping the fecking guitar off him whenever I see him.

Not sure if he's blond, but yes usually wears sunglasses. Always wears a hat, maybe a fedora rather than cowboy hat but one of those wide brimmed hats.

IF they were any good, they wouldn't need amplification. Best I ever saw was a girl singing opera, a great voice no speakers.

She sounds like an old hand, the howler monkey with the guitar and the cds no-one buys?

The leprechauns were back today in their usual spot!!

Passed by yesterday and they were deafening.

Their spot outside debenhams has been taken by supposedly homeless roma!!

While not a busker, that screaming African preacher woman with the microphone whos outside the library on Grand Parade every Saturday is solid proof that there has to be legislation on amplification in the City centre. She is utter torture.

There were calls for bye-laws to be put in place, but nothing was ever done because it doesn't involve bicycles and feel-good virtue signalling.