Buskers, Street Entertainers in Tunbridge Wells, Kent*

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• Duncan Scotty AKA Duncan Disorderly or Drunken Duncan!!!
• There's a guy who is always outside the Ragged Trousers drinking and just randomly talks to people passing, his name is Duncan or as the staff likes to call him "Drunken Duncan".
• "Naughty boy"
• The Naughty Boy man followed me & my friend & said "I hope you two are going to get hammered tonight" was hystarical!
• Duvett Dave!! although he got killed rather sadly. he used to just wear a duvet and walk endlessly from tunbridge wells to tonbridge
• duvet dave! (naked man wrapped in a duvet) once over the smell hes very sweet and nice 2 talk 2 and really intelligent. sorry to bother you/naughty boy guy (he has many new dances and rumour is he has a cd out)(search youtube with naughty boy tunbridge wells)i only saw him a year ago for the first time, now cant miss him going in and out of shops telling people hes sorry thathes bothering them and that hes a naughty boy full of sin. okay kinda sad but he brings joy to many people. food court jesus (never the same since they took his stairs away) the man who wears miniskirts and skips down the hill is also quite amusing.
• Slim Lightfoot plays a mean blues guitar on the pedestrial bit outside the RVP some Saturdays!
• theres a lady who lives in groombridge but spends every day in tunbridge wells and she has a parrot (real!) on her shoulder. theres a man who walks around singing "im a naughty boy" all day (and possibly all night!) theres steve, the duvet guy. completley naked except for a duvet. theres jesus who spends every day walking up and down the foodcourt stairs abd theres the guy who walks round town drinking milk and reading aloud from the bible. and theres the drunk hobos who seem to live on the bench by costa. aha.
• Well, theres duvet dave, dave the rave, and dennis, and the "naughty" boy. None of which are a problem.
• The Singing Man
• "I'm a naughty boy!" is regularly found in the town centre library wearing a name badge with "Sam Semtex" on it. He's always shouting "sorry to bother you". More recently he was in a well known health food shop offering a piece of unwrapped chocolate straight from his pocket to the lucky sales assistant 08/03/06 Has anyone come accross "Jessica Lange" the transvestite in the red wig!!!
• Dave the rave who stands at the clock on speed beatboxing spitting everywhere and raving it out,nuff love to that man! and brian,the village drunk,nuff love aswell,that man has been rinsed! Always watch out for the pikeys at the clock on fri n sat night aswell,there always on the prow for somet!
• That old guy with the flat blue RAF-style hat and long coat who wanders around talking to himself. Doesn't do much, but I see him a lot.
• hah that guy who runs aroung talking about the war he is kinda funny, and the one who shouts about how jesus is great, and we shouldnt shop.
• the "i'm a naughty boy" guy now goes round singing "sorry to bother you". His therapist couldnt stop him singing altogether so he got him to sing sorry to bother you so not to offend people too much. He's still quite scary tho.
• Katie at Tescos
• The gentleman who wanders around the town centre in a fairly smart suit going up to various people and stating " Do I bother you ? " or alternatively " Sorry to bother you !! " There is Dave who attacks things which aren't there !! I know he has various nick names such as Bush Beater etc
• The guy who had the clarinet. He was standing outside Superdrug, and...let's put it like this. I think he won or stole the clarinet because he obviously has never had a lesson in his life.
• the mcgloin family
• mr naughty, man who dances round town wearing top hat etc singing 'im so naughty'
• The guy who sings"naughty boy" also has several other unforgettable tunes such as "Semtex" and "It's fantastic to be a spastic". He suffers from Aspergers syndrome which is part of the Autistic Spectrum of Disorders. He is a nice guy and will quite happily speak to you about recycling which is one of his obsessions. He likes to be called either Giles, James or Chip Chop Sing Wing. He dislikes the police and the benefits agencies whom he believes are spying on him so they can sue him for his benefits. As to the person who posted a note that he had smeared effluent over the walls at the R.V.P this is in fact true. There is also a guy with a beard who goes round the pubs just looking at the menu's, waving at the staff, then leaving. He is known as "bearded wavey man" and comes from Pembury. Best time to catch his act is at about 12.00 midday Saturday's in "The Barn bar and resturant" in Lonsdale Gardens, and while your there why not enjoy a nice reasonably priced lunch and drink.
• The Three wise monkeys in the Dyke of York! if you dont believe me go and have a look!!
• The Guy in the suit who sings "I'm a naughty boy" and dances also has other songs in his repotoire including the smash hit singles "It's fantastic to be a Spastic" and "Semtex". His name is Giles, aka James, aka chip chop sing song wing something something. He also enjoys the other pastimes of running in and out of shops and believing that the council and the police are going to sue him for his benefits. There is also a Guy who goes in and out of the pubs and just looks at the menu's before running out. The best time to see him in action is about 12 O'clock midday Saturday's in The Barn, so why not view the entertainment whilst enjoying a nice pint.
• even if u dont read the big issue give um a pound anyway, there worst of than we are.
• There are a couple that i have to say have caught my attention over the years! one is called 'naughty boy' as he likes to dance up and down the street with an old suitcase singing 'im a naughty boy'!!harmless and funny. The other one is 'special brew', originally named by me as he is always at the car park by the honey moon resteraunt swigging from a can of special brew and doing karate kicks-this being quite an amazing feat as he must be about 85 years old!
• The pan pipe playing guys from the Fast Show normally hover around Woolworths.
• Daz- those of you that know him will understand, those of you that dont, try to keep it that way
• The dude who just walks up and down the stairs in the food court. He's got a weird leg too...
• there are so many tramps and smack addicts in town, but dont worry about them man there loving it. pikeys are arrested daily, they wont give you any shit just there little brothers
• the bloke who goes round shouting "im a naughty boy" is quite ammusing!!! and all those crazy people who just sit round the clock day and night, they must get bloody freezing!!!!
• I do know of Naughty Boy, he used to come into our offices. He is a rarity now - I hope he's okay. I remember watching him progress down the street, and seeing everyone else in shops etc, looking out the windows too!
• Slug Bowen on his old fender strat copy doing punk covers
• the guy with the round-rimmed glasses that walks into shop doors and shouts "sorry to disturb you", then runs out again. we have the odd preachers, and who could forget when the mormins came to visit- big talking point.
• Everybody knows Andy. He lives on the common in an old tent. I won't tell you where coz the jippo's will do a typical jippo thing and ruin his home. I'd rather have two housing estates full of Andys than a singly Jippo/Chav/Pikey in the town.
• what about the beard man?? He used to walk along st. john's road and scare the bejasus out of me!! He's tall and thin with a long, black, rasputin-type beard.He had yellow fingernails. did anyone else see him??
• yeah!!! there is sum 1 who me and my mates call dave the rave...looks like a junkie propa smelly but he plays his recorder all day and i see him at 3am wen i come home from clubs sometimes playing it he nodds his head very fast too as though he was in a rave
• yea u do get the od begger but b nice coz they are nice people!!!!
• There are a lot of drunken characters on the weekend other than that I don't have a clue. Everywhere has its loonies though. I guess chavs can be quite entertaining to laugh at!
• the man who walks around the station normally about 11pm of a friday nite. he will tell u his name is dave and ask for twenty pence so he can afoord to buy a barbeque for his pet canary, who apparently is a huge fan of all food marinaded
• evrywhere DEY ALL ROCK ND R ALL DUDES!
• Well she's not a 'Busker' but she will 'Street Enterain' you if you give here £40 hahahahahahahahahaa
• OK the beggars outside the Body Shop and KFC. Why?!?!?
• Look out for the blokes who play the drums in the precinct. They are superbly fantastic.
• man playing recorder to druum n base cd by millennium clock
• THere used to be a guy who played a guitar with no strings! Obviously it made no noise! I asked someone about him once and they said he play the stringless guitar in harmony with the traffic noise or something. Most odd! In fact Tunbridge Wells is od all round.
• I know a guy who goes in the Pantiles, the Public precinct, and maybe in the RVP
• Some weirdo banging on a bongo drum on Saturdays. Not what you want to hear following a night out the night before! Especially when he cant even get a rythmn going!
• bit between RVP and other hsops outside
• NAUGHTY BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Theres also a bloke who comes into the old west, with a posh accent and starts talking to the fruit machine and giggling. Bless.
• Yes the man with the 2 string guitar is called 'The Rink-a-Dink Man'. That's the noise he makes. He is still very much aloud and looks very similar to Mr Robinson who used to teach science at Sandown Court School in the town.
• Folk festival once a year
• the incredible singing man!!!! he is crazy. walks around town opening shop doors and singing 'i'm a naughty boy' to the customers in a strange melody whilst twirling around and kicking his legs. this guy is quite hard to find, i have only seen him three times in four years of tunbridge wells, but it's worth coming just to see him.
• that barnados guy that is hot....ne one no who he is??
• The town has become over run by fake beggars! You know the sort - green army jacket/trousers, bloody dog, dred's, ring thru nose. They hang round money machines and fast food stores (see KFC) come 10 o'clock there mates come and pick them up to go down the pub. We had a bit of street entertainment a couple of years ago when a couple lay down in Calverly Road (main pedestrian shopping street) on a Saturday afternoon and started have sex. Ha! (not nice for the kiddies obviously) but very funny over a pint. Apparently she was barking and he was 'random-up-for-it-bloke'. Ha! wouldn't be funny if this wasn't Royal Tunbridge Wells.
• Naughty boy is bloody hysterical!!!! He wanders into our shop telling us 'he's a naughty boy, everything he does is full of sin!!!!!' pure class! Apparently he got barred from RVP for wiping human faeces (i.e. Shit) on the frozen meat section in Marks.............may be just a rumour though - can someone please substanciate?????
• Naughty Boy!!!!!!!!!!!! Hes fun to watch
• Out Side Threshers
• Geezer in suit who walks around doing a dance and singing "i'm a naughty boy", weird
• The geezer with the 2 string guitar rocks my tiny mind - haven't seen him for a couple of years though - maybe he's dead? Has anyone seen him?
• i dont know any personally, but there are some good ones that i often throw a coin at (not AT THEM, but in their hat or whatever)
• EVERYWHERE, the government can build a milennium dome but they cant house these poor people!
• The precinct outside Vicky place is always crawling with them. As is the pantiles - they are bloody good esp. sugar brain.

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