Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 03:43 AM

I know nothing about it this time other than there is a great big banner across the street advertising the busking competition for this coming saturday

Rog

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: harpmaker
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 06:24 PM

I don't know if this is a buskers comp'. It seemes to me like a xmas fair? Cant seem to find out any details other than xmas fair.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Les from Hull
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 04:08 PM

Maggie and I will be there (but not busking!). Perhaps some of us might meet up for a drink in the Sun.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 05:16 AM

The busking competition is part of a two festivbal of Christmas being held in the town. Other attractions incude civil war re-enactment, garland dancers and musicians, winter ale festival and a large street market.

entry details and contacts are as shown near the start of the thread

Roger

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Dec 02 - 04:24 AM

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: GUEST,jOhn from Ull, 9i dont know whats up with th
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 05:01 AM

Hello, i have got my tambourine out already.john

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 01 Dec 02 - 04:31 AM

They are doing it again this coming Saturday 7th December - I don't know any details but I presume that the same contacts would apply as in the start of the thread if you want to know more

Roger

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: ossonflags
Date: 08 Aug 02 - 04:35 AM

O fickle oakiepoos,

I shall be having a word with that telly woman. I thought It's only me who's allowed to be aroused by your shapely calves and smoothskin.

Deany,do not confuse winking with blinking,did a bit of that myself when I saw your shapely calves on the saturday night!!!

Les,although not been formaly introduced to them, I am sure you have very shapely calves.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 07 Aug 02 - 08:38 PM

heloo i wanted, to go to yhe busking thing but, i fell asleep and, dident wake up till dinnertine, but i went to te hase it, was very good.john

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 07 Aug 02 - 07:17 PM

Nah, sorry fellas. Frisbeeeeeeeeeee woz definately winking at me. Makes a change fom Watto getting all the girlz.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Les from Hull
Date: 07 Aug 02 - 05:41 PM

Ha! The woman off the telly had no interest in me as she could see that I already had a very talanted partner. Pity nobody else saw us, though.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Oaklet
Date: 07 Aug 02 - 03:02 PM

Ossonflags, the woman from the telly was visibly aroused by the sight of my shapely calves and smooth skin. Stop deluding yourself.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: ossonflags
Date: 07 Aug 02 - 03:53 AM

I believe it was the the waistcoat and my coooooolll rendition of whiskey in the giro that might have just swung the runners up prize for us.I think I saw a glint in C F's eye,as we call her now,or was it a tear, when she came to see us.Anyway,you will be pleased to note that at least one member of p the h knows how to dress with some style and dignity,I thought it was wise for the occasion that was in it to wear one of the least bright items in my wardrobe.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: GUEST,Skipjack
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 02:21 PM

..........errr........ vague memories of wearing waistcoats and murdering whisky in the jar. Waggler will join you at the stake, Mick!

Skipjack

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Willa
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 12:42 PM

From the Hull daily mail August 6th (Matt Stephenson's column)
Busking contest had plenty of soul
It was a fine, sunny day and there was a range of acts, including...folky types in waistcoats (or should that be wescots) singing Whisky in the Jar.
So it was you that caught the judge's eye, ossonflags!
BTW john9, Claire Frisby is the grand-daughter of the man who patented the frisbee.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: GUEST,Oakley
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 12:08 PM

The man jOhn is very difficult to pan9 down at the moment. He states his intent to partake in musical happenings freely and some hours later posts to inform us that he fell asleep9 or was too pissed8. But at the busk, he just plain didn't show. He might have been discouraged by the jiggling rehearsal that ending up in a spilt pile of CD, a broken tellyphone and an awoken hamster. And several bruised oranges. Tonight will be a test. He claims attendance at the Hase (opposite the cherch) in Hessle7. But will he be there?6

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Pied Piper
Date: 06 Aug 02 - 11:50 AM

What I want to know is how good was John's Jiggling? All the best PP

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 05:18 PM

Good luck with the interview, David. I hope the suit has recovered from Saturday night. May the force be with you. And hope to turn up at the Hase tomorrow night but am unsure of this. Suspect the present Mrs DeanMeister already has plans and I will be stuck babysitting. Hmmmph.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 02:14 PM

i still dont knoe who Claire Frisby is.john

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: smallpiper
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 01:28 PM

Yew gorra laff,double bass indeed! Sue can be a reet divil and she's a past master (miftirif) at ninja bear mats so watch out deanie old boy! yew haf bean warned.

See you at the Hase tomorrow

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 01:00 PM

I might have yet another answer to this, Oakers! For a small consideration, you swap worlds with jOhn tomorrow. You turn up at Mustaffa's, having emptied yourself beforehand, and have a day as a calorie logistics executive, and jOhn wears the last pair of trews that fit, buffs the titfer, and does the interview posing as Oaklet, whilst keeping Brians tail knotted canvas side of the pocket lining. You know, I think it'll work!

See you at the Hase, if the memsahib ever lets me out again. She's a saint, that woman.

Garforth

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Oaklet
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 12:43 PM

Sireen, How about a bad one? That'd do.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Noreen
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 12:07 PM

You need a good lick?

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: GUEST,Oakley
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 11:54 AM

Thanks jOhn old buddy, I'll need it. The Marines have become very picky of late in their entry requirements.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 11:47 AM

good lick for your inter view oAklet.john

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: GUEST,Oakley
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 11:37 AM

I'll be there and so will the smoke-blackened bicycle. Interview tomorrow (Fouls himself again at the thought of it.)

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 11:08 AM

me going.9you can see hoo i am them)

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 10:30 AM

Who is going to the Hase tomorrow night?

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 10:22 AM

Sue has set a precedent now....she is gonna be tiggered whenever I see her in future....she will regret yesterdays little tete a tete.... Am considering throwing a double bass at her next time.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 10:18 AM

wo is Claire Fisby?

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 10:12 AM

The right of first strike???? Not if I see her coming first.......

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: smallpiper
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 09:56 AM

It was the Jedi Cheese that did it for me! (That and the wookie) What a session! I'm not afraid of the Deanmiester he knows I'll set Sue on him if he gives us any bother! - no warning and she reserves the right of first strike!

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Oaklet
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 06:36 AM

Smallpiper, I never like to miss anything, but I ran out of steam and became a little gloomy later on, so I went home. Some of the pain that I feel this morning is a result of laughing with you yesterday afternoon. About light sabres and other things. Will you stop this kind of behaviour please. DeanMeister will have no alternative to split us up next time.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 06:19 AM

Perhaps the Humberside Police Special Whistle Squadron arrested him for reckless endangerment after running a red light, pissed, and trailing blue smoke tinged with bear and stale curry?

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: smallpiper
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 06:10 AM

But what happened to the Oaklet last night?

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 05:36 AM

What a weekend! Lost me busking virginity, solidly, apparently. Lawrie (Bloke in the Corner) and I appeared as 'Waggler', complete with a menu board of songs, dreamt up by twelve drink-sodden advertising executives the night before. We had a great pitch away from most other acts, apart from one that Oaklet has already descibed as odd (not that we were that even).

We found that hackneyed old songs had the tears plopping on the flags, and the cash rolling in, but tunes (even played well!) didn't seem to hook the punters in, as Sarah has said about the fiddle tunes. Yet Oakers reports even money between tunes and song. Depends who's going by at the time, I suppose.

Waggler performed again on Saturday night, at the Carnival, in Barton, and yesterday saw another Purple Helmet Binge Drinking and Cycling Display, with added damp squib pyrotechnics. I fear a greater outrage is planned......

I managed to wobble home and save my current marriage by arriving 11 and a half minutes late for the family meal, and then downed the last of 9 pints with Doug Chadwick (good man, himself), and the divine Tina Cook at Wooton, with Banjo Flower, Smallpiper and Nik-Nak in attendance.

There's nothing so queer, as ten pints of beer, for messing around with your liver...........

Gary

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: GUEST,oakley
Date: 05 Aug 02 - 05:11 AM

The smoke bombs must have got dampened by the continence problems that Gary and I suffer from. We have started to make preparations for an attempt in September which will be bigger and better. I promise. Bear with us.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 07:10 PM

well -what can one say about the purple helmet pyrotechnic display down Hengate?- Must have used the same gunpowder supplier as Guy Fawkes -pathetic! Call yourself a display team? The gathered throng were really up for it, and apart from a couple of puffs of smoke which could have been as a result of Oakley's legs rubbing together - there wasn't even so much as a spark -I want my money back!!!!!

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Joan from Wigan
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 01:35 PM

Well done everyone, it sounds like a wonderful day. Here's hoping they repeat it next year.

Joan

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: ossonflags
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 08:29 AM

Come on harpmaker!!!

Wasnt it a great day??

Categories indeed.why not go the the full hog and have a section for those amped up,or not,penalty points for winos annoying them,other than the competitors that is!!

Taking part and enjoing is the name of the game.

Personaly speaking,I had a brilliant day and contrary to the what the lovely oakley says, realy relished having an accordianist playing near us playing differant songs to the ones I was singing,really sharpens you up that!!

I think what is really important is that kids are participating in this stuff and keeping entertainment live,that is what we are all about isnt it?

Congratulations are in order for all those who had the bottle to take part.

From me and Punch the Horse,to everyone,WELL DONE!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: harpmaker
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 06:48 AM

We think you'd have stood a better chance Oakley if you had shaved your legs, a boy your age should'nt have shuch hairy legs. (Poor lad). Our SM58 mic is up for auction, after Claire Frisby salivated all over it. Bidding starts at a grand!

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Oaklet
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 06:33 AM

I though you were both magnificent, John and Chris, especially your announcements about the price of lamb chops and rump steak that punctuated your musical journey. We had an accordianist from the busking private sector opposite us. Tulips from Amsterdam all afternoon. Watching Ossonflags gently simmering on a low boil was a complete joy.

I'd do it again next year, but would try to get Ossonflags to do some break-dancing dressed as a 14 year old hip dude, not dressed as a curmudgeonly angler.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: harpmaker
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 06:17 AM

There should be two catagories, one for juniors, and one for adults. The adults don't stand a chance whene there's kids performing as they all walked away with 1st 2nd & 3rd prizes. Its not sour grapes, its just that, there should have been more runners up prizes for adults who took part. We had a wonderfull time anyway. John&Christine.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: smallpiper
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 06:17 AM

Soooooooo ze purpul helmets ride again mit ein escort from zee politize special vistle division! A tip - watch where you pee when returning home remember I live under the bridge!

See you at nellies

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Oaklet
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 05:55 AM

Smallpiper, am I really that predicable? Spot on of course. Watch for the bicycle pyrothechnics at 2.30 outside Nellies, when Gary and I will be making an entrance. The Humbersde Police Special Whistle Division is coming, but he is bringing an instrument.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: smallpiper
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 05:43 AM

Well done to you all - (I presume the oaklet and crowd will still be celebrating by having drunk their winnings and will now be starting on next weeks family allowances)and will see you at the DeanMiesters sesh in Nellies later today.

9alidgidly)

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 04:44 AM

It was so scorching that I've been nursing sunburn all night (allergic to sun cream before anyone says anything).

It was barefaced gall on my part to go with the nyckelharpa as I only know three tunes on it (had it two weeks) and I can jam with Toni on the gurdy. Interestingly I made virtually nothing by playing standard fiddle, but got crowds every time I picked up the nyckelharpa - lesson there is learn loads of tunes on harpa and leave fiddle at home.

I always wanted to see if I could earn money busking - just in case I ever lose the day job! Looks like I would be OK.

It was a fun - but very hot day! Congrats to Punch the Horse and the other catters who got prizes.

Cheers Sarah

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 02:59 AM

9allegidly)

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 02:57 AM

them tax peepol are a set of fiddling basturds as well, they wanted 3 grand off me, last year.i told them to get lost, then i moved hoose and dident tell them, and every job you do, yoo should get payed in cash, then no messing aboot.john

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Oaklet
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 02:49 AM

It was a really, really good day. For yours truly, a splendid three hours on a rusty bicycle and four playing outside Thomas Cook beneath a cloudless sky. Skipjack and Bloke in the Corner, gave a erm solid performance. Les and Maggie were allocated a spot which wasn't ideal and I met two 'Catters who played hurdy gurdy and Swedish fiddle and I was entranced. And the prizes were given by the famous woman off the telly.

Winning was irrelevant, the winners were those who were treated to 20-odd entertainers (some of whom were very odd). But for the record, Punch the Horse (extra points for my shapely lower limbs of course) and John and Chrissie won runners up prizes (undisclosed sums was for tax reasons). It is not the winning, it is the taking part. And who ponced off with the £500? Some bastards dressed in black, who now have a huge scratch down the side of their Mondeo Estate. As I said, its not the winning its the taking part that matters.