Buskers, Street Entertainers in Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh*

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Buskers, Street Entertainers

• Jay and Munky!! The legends of Edinburgh incarnate! Stoner gods and fighting machines, these guys are the best people to have at your back, and to be calling you friend.
• That mental black fella who walks around teh train station shouting "Edinburgh! Edinburgh? What is Edinburgh?" He's drunk outta his mind, a mate of mine talked to him once and he said he was normal about from being drunk and shouting. He looks dangerous.
• the scary 'lady of marchmont' who's about 108 but dresses like Lily Savage
• Stewart Whitsun : Metal god and part time super spy/playboy/!
• Theres a group of dudes that hang around the royal mile and hunter square, one guy wears a kilt,cowboy boots and old jacket with pink bandana, bucket hat covered in badges and braded beard. what a dude, theres also a drunk called jimmy who was wearing a silver chainsaw mask last time i was there. during festival more peformers than anywhere else
• Whatever happened to the crankies and wee rab.
• Whatever happened to that old queen with the bagpipes and the soltaire T-shirt with the skirt.

• there are 2 old men drunks that wander up and down nicolson/clerk street daily, falling down and generally harassing people. cross the street if you see them. there is a big issue man that hangs out either at potterrow or outside tescos on nicolson st with red hair and a very distinctive loud voice, he will often reassure you hes not asking for your life savings - dont buy off him, hes loud and wakes me up. buy off the skinny one in the jumper whose really sweet.
• Lady with the white lump on her cheek. Or "Organic Jim" guy with the bike and chinese medicinal cooking chat that frequent's marchmont and morningside! The guy selling fake weed in marchmont, he is a skank!
• there's that girl on the east end of princess street whose been pregnant for the last 2 years.
• kev shandly. pure ledgend. sound guy. akli street wanderer see him anywere and anytime. bristo is a good place 2 spot him
• Has anyone seen the tramp with ONE HUGE DRED??? Who is he? Whats his life story??
• Paul. The old wandering guy in the camel jacket with a huge bushy beard. Quite fat. Legend has it he used to own a hair salon but then sold it. Quality geezer. Also answers to jesus, Eric, Bobwokka-namden the 3rd.
• The oriental bagpiper outside Princes Street Gardnes, Hes better than any Scotsman i no.

• the jester man who plays the banjo on the royal mile in the summer an australian man comes and does a water bong trick usually on the royal mile or cockburn street last year a shop keeper came out and but his whole trick in the bin
• apparently there was this italian guy down princess street who never accepted money, but only small offerings of food and drink. everyone who worked there knew him, and when he died recently, 1000 people or so turned up at his funeral
• bristo square suppose u knew that though eh?
• There is ALWAYS this statue guy at jenners on princess.st!!
• GET-RID-OF-THOSE-F***IN'-PAN-PIPERS! NOW!!!!!!!!!
• I love the Jesus guy who comes almost every summer to play the saxophone and dance on a rainbow carpet with his dog. Surreal. And also the fat bearded Hells angel on the motorbike who plays the bagpipes. Pure class.
• Edinburgh - the only city in the world where old winos don't ask you for "any spare change" - no, they ask you for any spare FIVERS.
• Street entertainers are a nightmare, especially during the Festival. That guy on the Royal Mile? Guess where you're penny whistles going to be shoved...
• Ohhh, definitely. Especially during the festical. There are sooo many! They get just plain annoying when you've lived in the city all your life. The worst thing is is when the same entertainers come every year, why must they do that????

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