Buskers, Street Entertainers in St Helens, Merseyside*

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• Steven Haury. Local tramp from Sutton. Rarely gets a wash. Can't afford new clothes, but always has enough money for Gamestation and Game. He really fuckin' stinks, especially on a hot day.
• Jonny Welly he is St Helens.............
• The Balengers from Higgnet aveParr
• JOHNNIE WELLIE IS KLASS
• Johnny Wellies is a local character with a grey beard. You see him everywhere!!!
• Quite a few men were named Eddy and a good number of those Eddy's were most proficient at sniffing glue and then getting beaten to a pulp.
• JONNY WELLY IS BY FAR THE BEST ENTERTAINMENT
• the old guy near woolys is the best entertianer hes got a mike phone and ev
• Johnny Vagas on TV n Johnny Wellyman (the famous tramp/millionare) if u see him round town
• Busker Joe, fab geezer, Len Banana he's been an extra in every programme going
• Big Lad Owen . a famous resident of the Parr district of St Helens aka the fittest drunk in Parr. Boy this knows how to do it right, 10 litres of white lightning a day , then on to the oddies gym for a 20000 metre row , how this man does it is beyond me , if you wanna see this man in action , go to the oddies gym between 6pm -7pm most days to see this artist in full swing
• JONNY WELLIES A MODERN WORK OF ART ESPECIALLY WHEN HE'S VERBALLY ABUSING YOUNG MUMS
• Do you remember THE WALKING WATERFALL?
• THE GUY WHO USED TO WALK AROUND SUTTON IN WHITE BAY CITY ROLLERS GEAR IN THE 1970s......AND STILL DOES WHEN HES HAD A FEW!SERIOUSLY.
• Johnny wellies....
• st.helens youth brass band are fantastic and i have heard thenm playing in the hardshaw centre at christmas a few times
• Johnnie wellie (Tramp),stands at peasly cross lights flicking the v sign,funny to watch and observe.It is said he is a millionaire?
• Jimmy Gaskell the teflon begger, the Police keep locking him up but the courts send him right back!!
• oh my god, johnny wellies but word is he died on Sunday (12 February 2006) then theres the big issue man, the cup of tea man outside barclays, that old guy with the mini guitar near Woolworths, and the bloke with the dog near music zone. he's savin 4 lessons.
• anyone remember HB who used to hang around the rec park. he had a gammy leg
• the johnny welly's if you ask he'll give you an autograph or he'll even pose for a picture if it's been a good day for him! the man who sings next to clintons and ATH- with his guitar and on occasions a dancer! the man outside music zone
• most st heleners are characters,fag in gob,and a pint of ale in hand,all sthelens birds,they all walk about on a freezing cold night wearing just a wide belt and a tumble dryed top,johnnie wellies,best known,funkiest dresser this town as ever seen,stop and have a talk to him,"eh ya arite"i talk to him but i've never took a toffee off him when he's offered me one,"i wonder why"
• i would like to take this moment to mention a face from my past know to many as(NAM DAVE) he was well known for hes big drinking skills and he could tell some vivid tales of hes past as a troop in basra.
• welly man john called us a cunt in maccys once but st.helens wouldn't be the same with out him.
• Welly Man John told me I was a cunt one day in McDonalds, he's a bit of a wierdo but it wunt be st.helens without him.
• Dave Cave is the man of Parr. He can take on anyone who goes in the engine in Parr including JP and the kenster.
• We've had them all over the years. Pisspot Frank, Johnny Wellies, Jack and Bandit. The new kid on the block has a dog and a guitar and is generally polite. A lot younger than his predecessors - he really needs a dentist; Oh, and a house.
• JOHNNY WELLYYYYYYYY!...supposedly from a very wealthy background...
• Dave Mannion
• welly man of course he's gota have a mention if you want random comments and swear words shouted at you hes the one to do it, plus theres a new one popped up quite recently, a young smack head with long hair plays a guitar outside boots
• Aww Johnny Welly Man he's proper nice him, though he is rather strange. He follows me and my friends telling us that 'lads should be burned they only want your money' hmm oh and the fella that sells the big issue near the fish shop outside the bus station, i buy it off him every week.
• Jimmy Gaskell the 'asbo; king beggar boy! Johhny Greenall - all round drunk down and out! Johhny Welly - Sweet lovaable tramp always offers you a sweet!
• theres this dude with glasses who is always standing around by the ymca or just in town. hes usually in cardigans and stuff but once he wore a tuxedo.. and he pushes a trolley round sometimes.
• has anyone seen that vid of the fit bird who works in the hair dressers opposite the walk in centre doin a dog,i didnt beleive it till i seen her in the barbersshop bit,how can a bird so fit be into that shit with all the lads that must chase her?????????????
• yes i remember jimmy who stutters very annoying man! jonny wellyman no harm there.
• Welly Man
• Most St Helens long for days back in t' pits. You can spot these individuals easily for they LIMP ON THIER LEFT LEG.
• THE EASIEST & QUICKEST WAY TO GET THE "PRICE OF A CUP TEA" MAN OUT OF YOUR FACE: SAY, "YEAH SURE MATE,I'LL TAKE YOU TO THE LOCAL CAFF & BUY YOU A CUP". SEE HOW QUICKLY HE SCARPERS THEN!! WE ALL KNOW THE MONEY'S NOT FOR A CUPPA!
• The homeless woman in rainhill the homeless man in st.helens town centre
• Johnny Wellies - Legend!
• male dancers and fire eaters
• NO MORE BARGAINS AT A THIRD OF CATALOGUE PRICE,HERE WAS THE POLOSKI OF POPSKIS PRIVATE ARMY,THOSE WHO WERE EMPLOYED BY HIM REMEMBER HIS SAYYING IF YOU BELEIVE IN CHRIST HERE AND NOW YOU SEE THE TRUTH,NOW DAVE IS NO MORE HE HAS GONE TO THE BIG SALE IN THE BEYOND,FROM A PROTEGE' NEVER A MASTER,GOODBYE DAVE.
• Matty from Parr or Burtonwood cottages
• kieron cunningham - fattest man in britain. see him every other weekend at marvellous millgob's knowsley road freakshow.
• johnnie wellies always got a smile and agreeting for us townies,"eh ya arite"..
• Ginny Green Teeth.Carr Mill Dam.
• that dickhead who used to shout at everyone whilst we were waiting outside the old pictures really loved his job! please tell him that i said he is a wanker,
• johnny welly wat a classic he has even got his own web site xkt
• Johnnie Wellie is a legend. He is only about fifty apparently but he looks so much older. This guy has been around the twon for years and years. There's that other guy who I haven't seen for ages who used to ask people for fifty pence for a cup of tea.
• Jonny Wellies, is a god! But I haven't seen him in a whole while, hope he's okay not been into st helens town centre in months (darn!) so maybe thats why. That guy who used to run down the main street clutching an old lady, grey, carlton, shopping bag was great, what was he doing though!?
• JOHNNY WELLY MAN OV ST HELENS, HAYDOCK MASSIVE OV YICK,
• THERE ALL BAG HEADS
• Johnny Wellies !!!
• Wellies of course has to be mentioned, and the gorgeous busker who plays guitar by stolen from ivor :)
• Johnny wellyman
• DAVE WAS THE LOWEST PRICED,BUT NOW HE HAS PASSED AWAY,SO NOW IT AS BECOME TOO DEER TO LIVE.SO NO GO OUT ANYMORE
• The 30 year old skate border that hangs aroud with a load of 16 year old lads outside music box-you are 1 sad git get a fucking life... arse hole
• Bigg Coxx is an absolute loon, he used listen to 2pac and now he thinks he is 2pac!
• Paul Blakemore, always round town on a sat night in nexus, loves the place! quite famous amongst locals of the sutton area but not very popular, and pretty out of shape and ugly!thinks he is quite fit and wears stripey jumpers and rockports! looks a bit like dan akroyd,buz lightyear,buz(home alone), peter kay, jan molby! if u see him give him a wave and slap him!!
• JOHNNY WELLIES KICKS ASS! HE MUST BE THE MOST WELL KNOWN MAN IN THIS TOWN!!!!! BUT STAY AWAY WHEN HE'S HAVING A BAD DAY COZ WE ALL KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN
• my uncle jynx james was a jokey years ago any 1 remember him, he lived on fleet lane before moving to newmarket to follow his dream ha ha.lets not forget the plaza night club tho, should go down in history probably the best club ever round sthelens....jon o ........
• the guy in the centre with a guitar who plays the same chords over...and over...and over!
• Timmy The Yorkshire Terrier pushed around in a pram in Rainford, not to mention his Mum!! The Wellie man in St. Helens - OK if he's in a good mood, if not LOOK OUT. Teresa, Marks and Spencers' very own entertainer, singer, dancer. PPPrice of a cup of tea. Darren Martin, druggie and thief
• The man with no top! The oldish man who walks endlessly up and down the East Lancs with no top on (From Carr Mill to Windle Island) and mainly just stands there in one spot for ages looking to the sky for inspiration. From early spring until Autumn on any half decent day he will be there I guarantee. Does anyone know he is, because I don't think he does?!
• THERE IS QUITE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN ST HELENS WHOS NAME AS NOT YET COME UP BUT I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ADD 1 OF MANY (SEX SYBOLS)(DARE DEVILS)(MAD GETS)(OHHHHH AND PLAIN OLD KNOBS) JUST LIKE FRANKY PENDERS THAT MAN AS WALKED SOME MILES IN HES DAYS. AND THE WOMEN LOVE HIM HES STYLE PITCH AND POSTURE JUST BULGEING WITH SEX DRIVE HES 1 OF MANY COOL T**TS IN MY BOOKS. FRANKY HAVE IT......!!!
• Johnny slingbacks never fails to have me in stitches by standing in the middle of the street laughing at what seems to be himself- classic!
• Chat (oh nuts, nuts, red hot nuts!)
• jonny wellies hes a star!!!
• KIRSTEN BLAIR TESCO EMPLOYEE
• I hate that tramp with the stubble and greasy hair who waits by cash machines. I saw him outside a bookies in Prescot once with a wad of cash in his hand! jonny wellies is great but dont stand downwind of him!
• The Welly Man tried to kidnap me once because i didnt have watch to lend him some time. Theres usually a junkie asleep outside kwik save aswell.
• the welly man, (now u do hav to be local to know about him) did u know hes got a girlfriend now! no joke honestly!!
• Benyon.. The famous drunk from Parr who keeps every one amused in Thatto Heath with his fibs
• John the tramp, Big Dave the tramp, the tramp who looks like George Best and the alcoholics who hang out in the park (by the central station) at noon drinkin cheap cider.
• those accident group people really chill my piss!
• that bag head that looks spooned rockin bak n forth tryin to play the guitar
• Johnny Wellies, is this the same guy many of us know as Johnny One-Arm. Blue Smurf hat, One arm tucked inside the flasher mack suggesting he's lost it in some war, but then ten minutes later it's miraculously re-appeared but the opposite arm has gone!?!? This guy once followed me from the old wilco's down church street and back around to the town hall and marks' car park, never new why!?
• We hav a one-armed homeless dude who begs, duz that count as buskin...NO? Thought not
• PAUL CUNLIFFE AKA SADFISH, used to be in an up and coming band called the Cwashband (I think) but since they dumped him he's now reduced to busking with his bass guitar outside Wooolworths on a weekend. Hope you make it back to the big time mate - outside Natwest that is.
• Who was thunder sack it used to be sprey painted all over Queesns park and surrounding area
• Gah, too many to mention and they're all invariably rotten - apart from the Bagpipe guy. We also have a sizeable collection of Big Issue sellers and tramps two of whom every person in St.Helens knows and has probably talk to (or been talked at in the case of Austin Wellies).
• Joseph whitfield outside of the phone shop near barratts shoe shop, oh and his dog_sure he gives that dog more shit than he takes!! its practically singing!!!!!!!!!
• The tramp who sits at St Helens bootsale ask for the price of a cup of tea,tell him its 50p.
• Buskers - What about pink haired, hunchy Cleo? A voice like fingernails down a blackboard and the appetite of a horse. Hope you're still alive, Cleo!
• JOHNNY WELLIES IS RELATED TO PAUL RANCE, DO YOU THINK BEING BORN WITH A STUPM RUNS IN THE FAMILY? CAN ANYONE SEE THE RESEMBELENCE??
• Johny Wellies was actually dressed as a girl by his mam when he was a young tramp, Poor sod, too all the street survey people who ask stupid f******n questions and do nothin but bug people whilst trying to shop (arsholes) That tramp outside the cash machines who drinks alot of tea knows his horses.
• wellies, budgey (price of a cup of tea) yeah go to mackys and get one you scav !
• the jeff duke impersonator.
• THE MAN WHO IS QUITE OBVIOUSLY INSANE AND IS SO USED TO A HOMELESS LIFESTYLE THAT WHEN HE WANTS TO KNOW WHAT HOUR OF THE DAY IT IS HE ASKS "HAVE YOU GOT ANY SPARE TIME PLEASE"
• Theres only one - Johnny Wellies!!!! he used to follow me when i walked to work to 'make sure i didnt get any hassle' bless! also, according to my mum: the scary tramp who waits by cash machines also stands outside lowe house church - sick. I dont know if John Paul Dawson fits into the category, but he certainly is entertaining!
• watch out for the big issue man and jonny green wellie cos if he hasnt had his medication he will be on a mission
• Jonny wellies - what happened to the cartoon strip in the Star?
• WOOLYBACKS DON'T PART WITH THEY'RE GIROS THAT EASILY HENCE THE LACK OF BUSKERS.
• Ji Ji Ji jI Jimmy, CCa, Cca Can YYY, YYYo, YYOOUUU Lend me TTTT, TTTT, TTTENN BBOB. Mythering GIT
• WELLY MAN!!!!!
• I was recently outside Yates wine lodge on the 23 Aug there was a young lady there busking with a air guitar ( no guitar at all just pretending)
• THE SCOUSE VERMIN SELLING DODGY BIG ISSUES OUTSIDE M+S.
• that bloke whos dog barks when he plays how much is that doggy in the window, class
• The piper outside woolies who gives a fantastic rendition of 'mull of kintyre'
• THAT SCOUSE GIT selling the Big - Issue outside M+S. Get some work you lazy t**t
• AUSTIN THE WELLIE MAN, "10P FOR A CUP OF TEA" MAN, HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGY IN THE WINDOW DUO, LONE PIPER
• WELLY MAN!!!!! or john i think his name is....neither of the above but still a celeb in all cases...funny guy as well!! CJ
• Austin with the beard. I hear that he's minted though in which case he's eccentric
• Johnny Wellies...with his good days and bad days..we'll have to get a statue of him in the middle of church square when he's gone
• Buskers need real jobs
• that bloke with the wellies - and the really scary tall bloke who hangs round the cash machines
• BUY THE BIG ISSUE! (Oh well someone has to!)
• just give them some fuckin money, whats the problem?
• THE ONE CRITERIA FOR LIVING IN ST HELENS IS THAT YOU HAVE TO EARN UNDER 500 POUND A YEAR, THEREFORE TOWN STREETS ARE FULL OF SCAGS ASKING FOR 10P
• CITADEL. AND EVERYONE WATCHES JOHNNY WELLY AT ONE TIME FOR A LAUGH
• main street
• i myself, morgan i am a quality busker in st helens
• john hewit really needs a home, any offers?.....I thought not!!
• You cant miss the welly man. An example of the type of men in this town
• Austin-the wellie man
• I don't know if they are still about, but I used to like the bloke with the concertina and the jazz band with the dog. They used to play "how much is that doggy in the window" and the dog used to bark at the appropriate places.
• Jamie - what a guy, can't you sing a bit louder. do you want to lend my tuner?
• ? - few and far between!
• that man with his bloody dog outside marks and spencers,
• That guy who hangs around the cash machines is quite entertaining! I love his peculiar brand of `Street Theater' which usually involves waiting for people ( usually frightened women ) to draw some money out. Then quick as a flash popps out of nowhere and says `Spare the price of a cup of tea'. Once I saw him do this to a small woman who was clearly frightened out of her whits and left her card sticking out of the machine, I being a decent bloke and not a scouser took the card out of the machine and gave it to her. I dont mean to sound callous but I hope this individual dies of something lingering and unpleasant ( which judging by the look of him will be self administered and in needle form, somewhere in the locality of that crack haven that is the YMCA building ).
• Beatles sound alikes who used to camp by Business Skills - excellent - where are they now? Also the bloke with the accordion and the dog with a coat on - pure magic!
• The guy with the bag pipes that stand in Church Street every Saturday - near Woolies

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