Buskers, Street Entertainers in Carlisle, Cumbria*

Places to find public entertainment

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• The April Sunshine 'where are they now?' on youtube. PS weren't buskers!
• Wakie Jakie!!! shes a good old laugh! got in a fight once with a load of chavs who were takeing the piss outa her! good old days!
• mark the homeless guy can often be seen walking his pet dogs round town
• fred story, eddie stobart, ged crooks etc.
• dave jackson - watch out young girls. the other one who runs jacksons and spikes the drinks. the old guy with long gray hair who hangs around the train station with a whs bag everyday. down warwick road the guy who doesnt step on the cracks. the homeless guy who does tours of the secret passages in the castle and smokes weed and drinks with you.
• Luke Hobson
• That old weirdo who's always with some young metalchick/punk/artstudent/wannabe. Wears Ramones Tshirts ALL the time. Ray, I think. Camp as f#ck, but ALWAYS surrounded by minge.....
• Some mid-30's guy called Ray. ALWAYS wears a Ramones T-shirt. Knows a huge number of girls in their mid-teens and late teens and early twenties. VERY loud. Always in one of the bars that attracts the more fresh-faced customers, i.e Fats, the Guild and the rock nights at XS. Allegedly went out 102 nights on the bounce. Also plays a humerous version of Hit Me Baby One More Time at unplugged nights.
• HARRABY #1
• In student and alternative bars in Carlisle. See a character called Ray. Very loud, talks 1000 miles an hour and despite being ragingly camp and 30 odd, always getting in2 some young bird. Always wears Ramones Tshirts CONSTANTLY. Omnipresent, and seems to know everyone between 16 and 25 who's not a townie.
• any 1n from dh ! ya got a luv em !
• any 1n from dh ! ya got a luv em !
• the man with the newspapers----also that really good busker outside barclays.
• Gotta be Billy Bullknackers..... ok originally from Wigton... YO!!!!! Reknown for writing his name all over signposts and replanting trees on the Wigton bypass!!!! The most well known tramp I know!!!
• Big Issue? Well one of them is a known character... its not just the big issue with him. That short, smelly old woman with the long green wax coat, glasses, her trolley bag and the audacity to think she can get away with stuffing it full of goods from any store in town. Osama Rasputin as a friend told me his name was, haha, but I can see why he said it, he's lost the beard and I think he's off the drink now... that or his medication, I think he's better on both. The deaf git who will talk at you about anything he wants, loudly and over and over until you decide to miss your next bus on Lowther St. The old tramp who wets himself in your local and loves talking about the Boarder Ramblers... forgets he's barred every time he goes in for a pint of John Smiths. And finally that single teen mother on every street corner, in expensive sports clothing with the best pram in the world, filled with lots of exspensive goodies for her child, standing with a fag in her hand and her jaw gaping glaring at you as if you've just pointed out she has a zit. Lovely eh? Must have a teleporter, she's everywhere with an unlimited wardrobe from JJB.
• The old git who goes down the Wheel. Mid 30's and as camp as Christmas, but always snogs some 18 year old.
• no characters left only druggy dateless looking youths some would look better in zombie films. ive returned to my home city after a long spell amazed how dark it is immigrents seem to av found us
• Me mate Smiddy is dead hard like and he flogs weed.
• I was the first and only (up to date) female town crier in Carlisle, and Yes I wore the full regalia.
• How about the Famous Tramps? The other day i was approached by Creepy Jesus greeting me with ''scuse me love, im homeless and schizophrenic, can you spare some change of smokes?' Anybody else had any sightings recently?
• You mention "jaffa" mr star wars etc, well he has a brother who was hard too back in the 80s, he maybe still is but i dont know that, he is "clive", when we were boys in denton holme, clive was the one who would terrorise us, in a friendly kind of way, he appeared to model himself on adam ant. one day for a laugh he obtained an old push bike, smashed it up a bit then laid down in the road with it, put lipstick on his face etc(to fein blood) and waited for unsuspecting moterists to discover the "hit and run accident". many cars stopped and were graeted with a chorus of "game for a laugh" by clive and his posse. Oh how they laughed.
• "There's only one or two left nooo"
• PD, Donaldson. Gets a bit of a slagging on this website, very unfair. He's a good lad and he has done quite well with his band 'adfinem'. If you dont believe me, go to amazon.co.uk/com and you can order his album. Also mentioned frequently on the web, but Carlisle people seem to have a problem with locals doing well for themselves.Jealousy? Biterness? Most probably. 80's throwback stephen dunne has returned and guess what??? he sounds exactly the same. very dated. no future.please retire gracefully.
• Jonathan Musgrave and friends currently band from the bars in town and every stadium in the counrty. Mark the tramp spot on for youngsters in need of alcohol used to be spotted at the spar in stanwix.
• That guy who turned out to be a paedophile who used to shout 'Theres-only-one-or-two-left-now-theres-not-many-left' and 'Carlisle-for-the-cup' Lots of good buskers
• you said it
• That loud guy, hes amazing
• the big issue seller outside boots is silly
• Theres that guy with the really loud voice hes brilliant. Wheres that guy gone with th accordian
• I knew a busker at the subway who actually stole the girl from me who I was in love with. I later found out his guitar was playing a major role in their fornication, and so burned it, along with its owner and his strumpet.
• I knew a busker at the subway who actually stole the girl from me who I was in love with. I later found out his guitar was playing a major role in their fornication, and so burned it, along with its owner and his strumpet.
• Thresher Man - some wardrobe
• What happened to Chris the tramp. He was entertaining
• kill the evening news pervert
• Various wino's allways good for a laugh doing psycodelic yodels for passing shoppers. weired looking guitar playing student buskers singing protest songs. Jazz bands in the summer. Crustey flute players allways with a dog on a string.
• Alot of singers with guitars most without talent.One guy who stands outside Barklays bank is quite good though,some four piece jazz bands on a weekend.
• Alot of singers with guitars most without talent.One guy who stands outside Barklays bank is quite good though,some four piece jazz bands on a weekend.
• OLD POMSY THAT USED TO HANG AROUND BY THE TOWN HALL YEARS AGO, WITH HIS BOTTLE OF "JUICE" AND HAS PLASTIC BAG OF "ADULT READING MATERIAL"
• THE OLD GUY!!!! carlisle dwellers will all know who he is he stands outside HSBC all day EVERY day selling papers, does anyone actually know wot he's saying we reckon it's possibly "There's only one or two left" but all he says is "thuronliwunatluft"
• TOWN CENTRE
• "haddock"......"evening news" yes, thats what he says. & he's my mates uncle ! and i have one had to help him bubp start his little scooter, he didnt even say thanks ! Chriss the tramp R.I.P
• "Not Many left now!" Yes there fucking is.
• punky tom, hangs around sporting a variety of interesting hair and clothes, really good, oh and ed sometimes with him, the guy who usually is outside barclays hasn't been around for ages, but he was great!!!! :.
• one outside barclays is v.talented.... one outside body shop doing stone roses...the guy selling newspapers outside midland is always good entertainment
• just tramps
• Look out for a handsome punk guy busking mostly Pogues and Billy Bragg stuff, and give him lots of money.
• City Centre in the summer - brass bands etc.
• 'THE APRIL SUNSNSHINE' were by far best buskers in the town. where are they now? Dave'the boy' Elliot, Scott'the streak' Lancaster, Phil Exile and Mad Mike Taylor.
• Noticed a girl with her dog palying the violin - a very good player and deserves to be paid well for her talents. Good buksers outside Barclays bank but haven't seen him in a while.
• There's a REALLY nice young briliant busker who hangs around outside Barclays Bank on Saturdays!Go see him record producer people!
• Old gadgie selling newspapers 'there's only on or two left marra'.
• Apart from the old newspaper fart and religious nutters, not much. Exceptions are at Christmas and Easter when fetes are held in the city centre.

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Last updated: 2011-05-28