Buskers, Street Entertainers in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria*

Places to find public entertainment

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• Jamie (Girl Wannabe) your class!! Sort your sandals out though love... They really are so last year.. x
• In town centre
• Mad russ the man who can walk for miles with anyones dogs what a guy! you when he was coming hear first see later!
• erm, there's a large man who dresses up as a woman, complete with a wig (HONESTLY), for some reason, you ALWAYS see him around town, he's always in town or on the bus!.
• You do see one or two about however im not sure of all their names!
• Theres a guy called Andy who I always see out when I come back. Must be in his late forties now and he's still giving in sox. Go on you good thing.
• local characters are the police force rob a bank walk away pee in a back street and theres hundreds of the buggers then again m,aybe they like that?
• GAZ JONES....A CHARACTER PLAYED BY SHAUN HAYTON IN STRANGE COMES A CALLING MADE BY REACH FOR THE DREAM FILMS
• Steve who plays the sitar..he's ace, he used to wear a sunflower but I think it died.
• One local character is Tomki, the big chief metal mosher. His penchant with anal sex with random men in Fell Street toilets is legendary.
• www.freewebs.com/sweatydogdick A prank on royce haslam Send it to you're mates Thank's enjoy
• Mad Gary. Mad Russell. Mad Charlie. do you sense a pattern emerging here?
• THE DUDE WITH GINGER DREADLOCKS WHO SMELLS FUNNY, BERNIE THE OLD MAN WHO DRESSES AS A WOMAN CARRIES A SPICE GIRLS BAG AND CARTED HIS DEAD MOTHER AROUND IN A BUGGY FOR TWO DAYS, RUSS THE DOG WALKER WHO CALLS REALLY FAT UGLY WOMEN SEXY SLIM CATS, JEAN THE RESIDENT BUS HOPPING MAD PEE SMELLING PENSIONER, SUSAN LEWIS FAT PSYCHOPATH AND GINGE THE ALCHOHOLIC WHO ONCE KIDNAPPED THE ICE CREAM VAN MAN FOR A DAY.
• The Disco Kid ...twenty five years a 'rock and roll legend' in the pubs and clubs of Barrow... some dancer ...some drinker ... some might say ...a little nutty ...but we love him for it !
• laddo who plays his organ with his little jack russell in his basket is funny
• That bloke who dresses and attempts to look like a woman with the purple cardy and the cheeky bobbed haircut.
• MAD RUSS WALKIN HIS DOGS IS A FAV LOCAL HERO
• THE TOWNS RED SHIRTED 60 YEAR OLD DISCO KID
• Smig and Richo
• james rutter,mad as a hatter into devil worshipping.
• That guy who always wears the Elvis head gear! Its true! He wears a rubber Elvis quif and the aviator glasses. Shout "The king is alive!" and he'll go "Uh'huh"
• That guitar dude that plays outside mcdonalds in town he kicks ass!
• fuckin fannyzzzzzzz!!!!!
• the old man known far-and-wide and collectively as 'penny dude', wanders Cornwallis Street on a friday and saturday night collecting pennies off the floor - most people throw 50ps at him and hold competetions to see who can knock his flat-cap off. mildy entertaining, if not bordering cruel.
• The man with the guitar who hangs round Macdonalds, the guy who does the wire frame metal things. They rock. The man with the ferret. There's a cross dresser who likes to hang round the shop, NS2.
• theres always someone begging in portland walk...
• dalton road on a sunny saturday afternoon barrow market
• Mark Ayling and his discos - get ur act together mate
• Portland Walk has the superb bend your name into a piece of metal
• theres a old guy down portland walk most saturdays he has a cute little dog!
• Fat Bob in market! People in lyceum hall (watch them while they pass the hours by playing SNAP!)
• circus puts on a few cool things like stilt walkers and jugglers
• out side jjb is the place for buskers
• da chinky dat sellz awsomely crap metal names but itz worth a laugh
• That chinese man that makes the names outta silver wires, that is amaaaaazing!
• We have lots of street entertainers when the christmas lights get switched on.
• There's usually something going on in town ranging from the Sally Army playing in Portland Walk or local kids singing in Ottakars at Christmas to The Barracudas dancing and performing in their own parades through the town centre. Some events at Forum 28 often spill out on the streets, such as a week long arts festival in July which saw local school kids singing to the old dears on benches and the masn fixing the town hall clock.

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Last updated: 2009-11-14