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Buskers, Street Entertainers

• FAT KEVVVVVV
• ABDULS IN THORNTREE ESTATE, just been convicted of selling alcohol to kids, why isnt he just put up against a wall and shot.
• THERE'S 2 MUCH GENERALISATION ABOUT BUSKERS ETC.THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WRITING YOUR PAGE R SUPPOSED 2 B 4 THE COMMON GOOD OF THE AREA. BUT UNFORTUNATELY SOME THE STATEMENTS MADE ABOUT STREET ENTERTAINMENT WOULD HAVE MADE GOOD SPEECHES @ THE NUREMBERG RALLY IN THE 2ND WORLD WAR. OH & BY THE WAY IT'S A WONDER THE TAXMAN HASN'T JAILED HALF OF THE STREET ENTERTAINERS IN THE BORO WITH THE BUSKER & HIS COLLIE DOG SAYING HE GETS 50£ AN HOUR. USUALLY BUSKERS WILL SAY THAT 2 MAKE PEOPLE THINK THEY R SOMETHING SPECIAL. JUST AS A FOOTNOTE! IF I BUSKED ALL DAY & NOT GOT A PENNY AND SOME TOLD I BRIGHTENED THE PLACE UP! THAT'S BETTER THAN MONEY 2 ME.P.S. LOOK UP THE MEANING OF ECCENTRIC I THINK YOU'LL FIND THAT THE WORD IS'NT CONFINED 2 STREET ENTERTAINERS.AND THESE PLAIN OLD LOONIES WOULD B CARTED OFF IN 2ND WORLD WAR BRITAIN WITH U AND MARTIN BORMAN @ THE HELM.WELL IT'S GOODBYE 2 THE FAR RIGHT, AND IT'S HELLO 2 THE NICE WORLD WE COULD B LIVING IN. LOVE THY BROTHER!
• the dude outside of the dundas arcade, Sh*t hot guitarist
• watch for stan yarker of 45 milbrook ave brambles farm hes a grass with a price on his head,police informant.wiyhout pregatice
• thelocal slaggs from grangetown visit m/broughs town centre after there weekly bath charlotte yarker is a well known artist with her freind,jane verrill of bankfeilds be of caution tese ladies bite if they dont get what you probaly havent got,money all our local girls provide a sad sexual aid ,or aids,that is sex for 5 mins until they have had ad chance to skim your wallet,the other well known places to hit is chicago rock nightspot where there is a pleasent attmosphere of piss,mathched with the order of coke on the rocks,even if you didnt order it,so you come back,after which your beaten to a pulpe because the bouncers got there doorbadges from the local police,bent of course,well if you fancy booze bruise and swine get to middlesbrough,its shit and it stinks like the footballer said
• There's a great one that hangs around near the Dundas Arcade. He's alright.

• Bernie Slaven
• It is good that under the new "RoboCop" Mallon regime as mayor, the 'panhandlers' have decreased dramatically. The other good entertainer (though I haven't seen him recently) is the REALLY happy conductor on the Whitby train!!
• My mate Ali's Uncle think's he's a squirell.
• I know thers loads of smack head buskers in Boro but it's got to be said the one who plays out side the dimond store with the black and white colly dog is a touch of fucking class. His rendition of Bob Dillons `Subterainion Home Sick Bluse' is the best i have ever heard. I recone he douse £35 to £50 an houre.
• The annoying wanker with a 'tache and a cap who asks you for money for the phone and then tries to make you buy a joint off him for £2
• in the little alley between the dundas arcade and marks and spencers there was alwyas a scruffy guy, now there's a man with a dog when you're walking towards virgin and captain cooks square
• the homeless guy near Virgin is always a laugh

• watch out for Beardy Man at Boro matches
• all the buskers and junkies now being pushed out of the town centre into the surrounding streets. keep that handbag clasped tightly! you have been warned.
• all the buskers in town are crack heads, especailly the nonce with the dog who is always sat outside the bakers oven scrounging for cash. if he is not there he is washing cars in the ugc cinema car park with a bucket of piss. you cant miss him he always has a black eye. hope he dies soon.
• The grubby pawed drunk Michael who roams up and down Linthorpe Road and will call you a twat if you don't give him a cigarette, I actually saw him with a lady the other day you never know maybe his life is taking a turn for the better
• The man u always see gettin arrested with his dog. He's a druggie and always in the gazette.
• Stay clear of Jossy who works in the Festival Shop - hes a right ignorant bastard. He always shouts to innocent customers "If your not buying anything, fuck off!" So dont give him your money, go else where
• Watch out for the beggars and don't believe their bullshit about just getting out of prison, some have been just getting out of prison for years and its just intimidation. A really good busker can usually be found in the arch between Linthorpe and the Dunda Arcade. Watch out for the stinking guy with the beard with two dogs around the centre. But stop and watch the bum fights that go on occasionally, they're really funny. There's one beggar who keeps changing beard, hair clothes regularly to try and tax money off people. Believe me he is not as poor as he lets on! More beggars than Big issue vendors.
• not so much a busker but defo a craracter and an enterainer known as chappy aka the colonal. as chappy he's a nice guy up for a laugh do alot to help others but once he's thrown a few stallas down his neck the colonal is out to play. river dancing all over the place shouting rude things at passers by normally young ladies. can be found in the rudds arms or the house on a sunday afternoon he has even sang gingle bells with cider bloke on a warm sunny afternoon in june
• What's this crap about jugglers? I've lived in central boro all my life and I've never seen a street juggler! I've been stopped about 3 times in the last 15 years and asked for money by a smackhead. I visited London for two days and lost count of how many people tried to con money out of me. And believe me, if you want to see prostitution look at the cards in any London phone booth or visit Kings Cross. Apparently, living in a big shithole is more 'classy' than living in a little shithole.
• steve ford is the coolest busker in boro.he lets me play his guitar everytime im pissed in boro on a weekend.i was even thinkin of asking him to start a band once but was scared he would nick me axes for smac.good singer and strummer.get yerself sorted out ste.(ask him to play working class hero one of his better songs)
• BEWARE OF THE TRAMP WHO HAS GOT A DOG VERY SUSPISHOUS. HE CARRIES A GLASS BOTTLE WITH HIM
• will u lend me 20 p is the local phrase when walkin down town
• Go see the bod headed Phil DJ at the Royal Exchange club in the Boro. His shows are the best, part DJ and side-show act. To be honest i've never seen such a scruffy bastard in all my life oh yeah and for the local townie smack-heads there's regular shooting up sessions in the toilets and the dance floor is a cesspool of scuffy crackwhores, violence and sticky aids ridden smashed bottles. Bon apetite!
• Theres some gadgy who sites in the alley doing a lethal oasis stand up.
• Drunken micheal dammm he funny but dunno if he alive now think he got stabbed bad shit but he was mental anyway "he'd lost the plot". ohhh and that dude with his dog who is allways on the news and papers for been part of the poor race of boro people. Fuck you southerners.
• The '42p' Man.. he's about the only entertainment you'll get here. Its strange how EVERY DAY he still 'Hasn't"' got the bus to Redcar.. If he actually spent that 42p on the bus rather than putting it in the phone box (or towards one of his alternative habbits)
• the most famous heroin addict in town. most of you will have seen him wondering between the bigger shoes (big issue) sellers trying to get his next fix. he can also often be seen picking up freshly dropped fag ends up outside macdonalds
• There is one man who sits in the tunnel going into dundas arcade or outside rise in captin cooks square with his guitar tell him to sing wildthing !
• THE ONE WHO SELLS THE BIG ISSUE PUTSDIE THE UGC IS SACRY AND THE ONE WIV THE DOG ALSO THE ONE WHO HANGS IN THE BOULEVARD LOOKING FOR JOINTS AND THHE ONE OUTSIDE THE HAIRY LEMON WHO LOOKS LIKE JESUS
• buskers continue to come and go ,normal area is outside the cleveland centre outside dixons ,on the corner of gilkes st
• A clown balloon sculptor appears outside the cleveland centre on saturdays
• The cool guy who busks in the cut between Marks and spencers and the dundas arcade, he really does rule, The Homeless guy who looks like Bill Oddie as well he is really canny and i gave him a quid before.
• throughout MBRO. lots of beggers
• Yeah, that dodgy guy asking about the festival shop ripped me off, never seen him again though, maybe he got it in the end ;) Theres a guy busking latley in town who sings bad moon rising, only he only knows one verse, hats off to him though!!!!!!!
• apparrently they are all skag heads
• captain cook square
• that gadge who stands or sits near dundas arcade u know the one
• Some hilarious ones on the main highstreet
• The little kids round Parliament Road, no more than 8, who think it is brilliant to smash in the shop windows and tell passers by to F**** OFF! Now they are entertainers.
• OK, so middlesbrough does sem to have a rather large number of buskers and beggars on the streets, but I would like to point out, not as high as London and Sheffield!! I have lived in Middlesbrough for 20 years and even though I don't particulary like the place, due to its lack of opportunity and the fact that it sells nothing but tracksuits, i hate the southerners even more for slating it. So a word of advice to all you southerners who dislike it....GO BACK TO WHERE YOU COME FROM!! Thank-you and we will be a lot happier for it!
• As street entertainment goes in Boro, some homeless Heroin addicts think its amusing to old people to sit and juggle whilst begging.
• The homeless guy who tried to light a match, lit the entire box by mistake and then dropped the burning box onto his black binliner full of possessions which melted and dripped all over his legs. Great entertainment. I gave him a quid!
• The woman who approaches people with a young kid in her arms, claims to have ran out of petrol and then ask for £5 - the cheeky cow. Tell her to fuck off - she's been doing it for ages.
• The funny drug dealer guy who asks if you know where the Festival Shop is (sells bongs, pipes, that type of dodgy stuff) and then when you tell him asks if you want to buy some skunk. Would be quite convincing once, but three times in a week !!!
• There are alot of scruffy bastards sat on street corners juggling but they never get any money off any1!!
• Toooooo many to count on Linthorpe road
• Beware the cider bloke wandering around pi**ed out of his scull begging fags and money, he isnt actually homeless, I've seen his wife!

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