Lond Underground has finally relented and permitted busking on the tube.
The downside is that, like in the Piazza at Covent Garden, the buskers will be licensed and auditioned, and thus will tend to be more classical than folk/blues.
It probably also means an end to the weird camaraderie there was as buskers dashed around the more popular pitches between 7.30 and 8.30 in the morning to bags hour-long spots on "the list", which was then tucked behind dog-eared posters or written in tiny script on the white bits of the posters themselves.