Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!

Subject: Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 05:25 PM

The market traders of Beverley, UK are holding a street entertainers competition on Saturday 3rd August. There are over £1000 in prizes but, so far, there are not many entrants.

For more information and to enter the competition ring

Juliet on 01377 252340 or Chris on 01482 847138.

R

Subject: RE: BS: Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 09 Jul 02 - 08:21 PM

maybe i will enter and play my tambourine.john

Subject: RE: BS: Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 10 Jul 02 - 05:42 AM

Could be stretching the word entertainer a bit far John!

Never-the-less it is a great opportunity to raise the folk profile in Beverley - and it's cerainly worth the bus fare from Hull or wherever if you win some money.

I'm pretty sure that I'll have a go myself, either alone or with one or two of the sessioneers that we play with most weeks.

R

Subject: RE: BS: Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: greg stephens
Date: 10 Jul 02 - 05:54 AM

Go for it, everyone.Wish I was free that day, I'd have a crack. Went to a similar do in Bolton once for a laugh, played a couple of tunes and walked away with five hundred notes. easiest money I've ever earned in my life.

Subject: RE: BS: Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Jul 02 - 06:08 AM

Yes perhaps you are right Roger, I think I should take my shaky egg as well, I will phone the organisers straight away, and book a spot as a multi-instrumentalist.I wonder if I could learn to jiggle before August, I would have a go now but the only fruit I have got is bannannas, I will go to the fruit shop and buy a few oranges, I will report back in a couple of hours and let you know how it goes.

Subject: RE: BS: Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Jul 02 - 08:13 PM

well, I bought some oranges, but it did not go too well.I dropped them on my coffee table, knocking over a pile of CD's and nearly smashing my tellyphone and I woke my hamster up.Maybe I will try something else, like standing on my head or something.john

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 05:09 AM

Seriously though folks. Please do enter because I would hate to walk off with first prize simply because there was no competition.

Over £1000 ($1400) in cash prizes

R

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Pied Piper
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 09:31 AM

Hi John. I look forwerd to seeing you jiggle. I think I might give the Buskers comp a go; that money would come in handy. All the best PP.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Les from Hull
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 02:09 PM

I've mentioned this to The Fragrant One, and she's up for it. So Rog, this could be another LMR gig, or we could just enter as the Kingston Duo if you're making other arrangements. I'm not sure that we could compete with John's jiggling, though.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 02:13 PM

I would if I could, but it's a bit far..........sounds like great fun.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 02:38 PM

Les

Let's go for it. I'm away from early Saturday morning for a week. Do you want to contact one of those numbers and book us spot? I'll talk to you when I get back.

R

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Les from Hull
Date: 12 Jul 02 - 02:58 PM

Sure.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 14 Jul 02 - 02:41 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Jul 02 - 02:26 AM

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 04:25 AM

Les

Did you get us booked in? Did they say whether or not there has been any more interest since we started this thread?

Roger - newly returned from Bath

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 04:31 AM

Hi Roger, I don't know if Les booked you in yet, but Punch the Horse are hoping to enter and I was speaking to harpmaker (John) a few days ago and he said he might enter as well.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 06:23 AM

Thanks for that John. I'm keen for the competition to be a success for the market traders who are running it. So, the more that enter the better it will be - whoever wins.

R

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 07:43 AM

Signed up with Toni Bunnell. See ya there.

Cheers Sarah

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Les from Hull
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 08:14 AM

Roger - we're booked in. I'm still waiting for the full information by post, but we start in Saturday Market at 10am. We're allocated a pitch and then we get to move to another later on. There's a lot of press interest and the organisers sounded pleased with the way it's going.

Les

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: harpmaker
Date: 20 Jul 02 - 12:18 PM

We're booked in to. The more the merrier! Should more like a street festival the way its going.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 25 Jul 02 - 02:19 AM

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Julie B
Date: 25 Jul 02 - 06:39 AM

John

Have a look at this thread concerning
the wiggling of jelly. I can't help thinking that this is what you may have been subconciously thinking of when you mentioned 'jiggling' above (jiggle may well be the appropriate verb for the wiggling of jelly). If so, maybe it is still not too late to perfect this skill in time for Beverley...

Just a thought :-))
Julie B

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Pied Piper
Date: 25 Jul 02 - 07:18 AM

Yes John how is the jiggling coming along. Can you Jiggle with more than one part of your body at once yet? All the best PP.

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 25 Jul 02 - 10:04 AM

Drat!

Having publicised this to everyone I now find that I can't appear in it myself.

Ah well, I'll just have to settle for a 10% agent's fee from the winners

R

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Jul 02 - 12:27 AM

i think how you can win-if it is counted on muney in the box, you can just tell you're frends too put munney in you're box.john

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 30 Jul 02 - 09:58 PM

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 31 Jul 02 - 03:23 PM

John sometimes you're so brilliant it's frightening!

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 31 Jul 02 - 08:49 PM

Thanks Lida
My advice to anyone getting any munney from busking, is to put it in a big box under your'e bed, them banks is a big rip-off.john
alligedly

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 02 Aug 02 - 11:22 PM

one final refresh! it is today, at Beverlet marjket in Beverley, im not sure if ir is to late to enter the computition, but you van go and listen any way, thrre is plenty of mudcat people going and give you a chance to heaer them, there is LEs and Maggy, Punch the Horse, and pie Piper and Sarah, it wil be a good event so try to go if you can.john

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Joan from Wigan
Date: 03 Aug 02 - 03:40 AM

Good luck, everyone!

Joan

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Joan from Wigan
Date: 03 Aug 02 - 01:44 PM

So, who won? How many prizes were there? Did the Mudcatters take the field? Waiting for news with baited breath...

Joan

Subject: RE: Beverley Busker's competition - £1000 in prizes!
From: Willa
Date: 03 Aug 02 - 03:35 PM

Hi, Joan,
I don't think they'll be around yetawhile. It was a scorching day and it's my guess they're still rehydrating themselves!! (OK, drinking their winnings)

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.

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: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 04 Aug 02 - 02:59 AM

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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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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 - 06:48 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.