Buskers, Street Entertainers in Coventry, West Midlands*

Places to find public entertainment

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• Banana Man, nuff said.
• Dave Cross on guitar went to my school sits outside superdrug
• anywhere in the city centre basically!!!!!!!!!
• The couple who shoot up on the back of the bus from Henley Green - bless 'em!!
• The other week a manwas walking past me and my friend. He then proceeded to put a cadburys cream egg on the floor and stand on it. Then he did the same with two more and walked off as if this were perfectly normal. Perhaps this was a one off...It entertained me!
• Bob Bones is a local legend, visit his statue in the city centre he is sitting on top of a horse wearing a wig.
• loony big issue seller. back in the day there was a resident tramp in the city centre but he´s dead now.
• dave the brave
• fuck knows
• Joseph Wallace at the Odeon, Skydome is the single most funny man on the planet. If it weren't for his cheeky grin and puppy eyes, you would probably be offended by everything he ever says. but he is seriously funny!
• Hank McSpank A.K.A Steve Buscemi. He is an absolute coventry legend! Definately someone to look out for!
• The Big Issue seller "Scooby Doo" has moved out of town now. I say him earlier this year. He had popped back for a few days. Life seemed to be OK for him.
• Banjo player in the subway who plays out of tune
• That guy who plays the guitar in hertford street jimmy somebody
• That guy who plays the banjo in the subway between Spon End and the City Centre. Or should that be, that guy who can't play the banjo in the subway between Spon End and the City Centre
• Theres this mad old lady who lives sumwer in hillz. shes pretty short but starts talkin to herself wen u walk past her n then she'll shout some kinda incomprehensable insult at u n then walk off. i used 2 c her evryday in the mornin on the way 2 skool in bout yr9
• Try Hank mc spank out for size.
• jeela
• buskers r nice but might bite ur leg off
• The guy who asks to borrow 50p each time you see him cuz his Nan is ill and he needs to get to the hospital in Birmingham, walsgrave, Leamington, Derby ect, each time you see him she's been moved!!
• Sadly te man known as SCOOBY the scottish Big Issue Seller , has gone missing,not been seen for a few months now,sadly missed.
• The man who shouts 'Scooby-Dooby-Doo - come and buy the Big Issue!'
• Scooby Dooby the big issue salesman
• ha ha ha ha
• Keith Parr - the city centre evangelistic. He roc ks and has converted the worst to Christ ie Me
• Basett tis a geek. big time kinda a loon too. Just creepy little eyes eurgh
• the most famous street entertainer in coventry, has got to be that weird kid "big ed" in spon end, his freinds call him head and he is just so funny he makes people laugh all the time without much effort he is a star and you can find him in and around spon end(near sky dome)he smokes weed alot so he will probably be stoned when you meet him.
• Frisky Clown...wears kind of scary clown make up, and often spotted at gigs and clubs around the town.
• MY DAD HES a T*** but a good artist
• "Gothic" Timmy!!! and "Scooby" the old big issue seller but I thoink he's moved on to higher places now!!
• one eyed women who roams mcdonalds every morning
• The Scottish Big Issue seller outside Natwest is definitely in the wrong business. Roll up roll up to hear his amazing selection of jingles and rhymes.
• Crazy preacher blokes being chased by crazier, drunker homeless guys round the fountains near the three Tuns. Best street entertainment ever.
• watch out for the tramps under the subway on the ay to the train station, once on told me to get a haircut!
• There's a dude that stands outside Natwest shouting, "Scooby Dooby Doo - Get your Big Issue!" and another near the new lower arcade shouting, "This week's big issue! Help the homeless please!". That's about as interesting as street entertainment around here is.
• Umm, they all got killed.
• WEVE STILL GOT THE BAD BOY RAPPING SCOTTISH BIG ISSUE SELLER NO LOCATED OUTSIDE NATWEST ON THE HIGH STREET: "SCOOBY SCOOBY DOO COME BUY THE BIG ISSUE" "BUY IT FROM THE JOCK UNDERNEATH THE CLOCK ..........." THERE ARE SOM MANY MORE GO AND C YOURSELF THIS MAN DESERVES AN AWARD, ALSO THERE IS THIS GD DAMN CRAZY MAN WITH A HARMONCA WHO JUST BLOWS INTO THE THING NOT KNWING WHAT HE IS DOING WITH BIG RED EYES PEOPLE JUST GIVE HIM MONEY FROM FEAR
• Occasionally we get those South American pan pipe guys coming through - always reminds me of summer.
• The big issue seller who shouts "scooby dooby doo"
• An old man who can't play a tune on his harmonica but expects money anyway. And a Big Issue seller who rhymes it with "Scooby Dooby Doo".
• Coventry has it's own cult of nutters. I can only just begin to scratch the surface here: The Scooby Doo Big Issue guy (mentioned above) Bananaman (mentioned above) The old guy in the disabled cart with the frankenstein mask on top of a mop, and placards that say things like 'I've been to the Moon', and 'Catholic Schoolgirl Satan Nazi death'. Sometimes sat in Broadgate, sometimes driving around the ringroad. I can't begin to explain. The bloke in a road workers orange jacket, who approaches you in Pool Meadow, talks to you for ten minutes about nothing, then asks you for 50p to get to Eastern Green/70p to go to Leamington. Covkids being covkids. The utter filth that are Cov birds.
• Its gotta be the guy who sells the Big Issue near the banks.. "skibby dibby doo.. buy the big issue!" you cant beat that :)
• dodgy flea pits and yobs in subways at night
• as b4 "SCOOBY DOOBY DOO BUY THE BIG ISSUE" Usualy on the high street theres the banana man whos a big rasyta who walks around the city center with his top off no matter what the weather with a boig bag of bananas (i think hes mad)
• Well, there's plenty of renowned lunatics to provide the entertainment. Particularly the one person legendary for having a go at one of my friends because she was eating a bag of crisps too noisily.
• The rhyming big issue seller (scooby dooby doo) is a good laugh but is getting harder to find these days. Spotted him outside intershop a few times. The crap harmonica player from outside sainsburys in town has not been seen since their makeover
• The Scottish Guy who sells the Big Issue outside the Natwest Bank In Broadgate is the only live street entertainment worth listening to.
• walkway past elders, big issue seller on corner of boots
• Listen to the great rhymer selling the Big Issue by the Lady Godive statue. "Scooby Dooby Doo, come and get your Big Issue."
• Buskers in Coventry - Loads of them, some very good, some that appear to be playing one song and singing another one entirely!
• Plenty of them - Big Issue, guitarists, chalk drawings (1995!) and the occasional bagpipe player. Occasionally the crap radio station Kix96 do live shows from the Bandstand/fountain thing.
• Often found around spinadisc, i think Jimmy Kemp plays here
• THERE'S LOADS OF STREET ENTERTAINMENT ALWAYS GOING ON, WHETHER IT BE ORGANISED BY THE COUNCIL OR BY A BUSKER WHO DESPERATELY NEEDS SOME SPARE CHANGE!
• Every saturday some always turn up. The old man with the acordian is good. Cute dog to. The AA man with his stall is also a regular entertainer.

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