An out-of-focus photo of Adi (don't know if I've spelt that right) mellowing walkers with guitar and song as they pass under Blackfriars Bridge. And the first busker I've been brave enough to talk to - thank you Adi! I got so excited at this breakthru that, after chatting, I forgot to stay and listen. As I waited for a bus on the bridge overhead, I stretched out an ear to hear him and wonder how to describe his music. Bluesy feels like a rather lazy and overly broad term...bluesy with a dash of Africa perhaps. And a generous slug of drill provided by the adjacent building works, the competing presence of which, Adi told me, didn't help make for a great pitch. The name of a South African band called Juluka popped into my head. Then the bus came. And I forgot to ask Adi whether he was singing his own songs.
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May 15th - Day 27
An out-of-focus photo of Adi (don't know if I've spelt that right) mellowing walkers with guitar and song as they pass under Blackfriars Bridge. And the first busker I've been brave enough to talk to - thank you Adi! I got so excited at this breakthru that, after chatting, I forgot to stay and listen. As I waited for a bus on the bridge overhead, I stretched out an ear to hear him and wonder how to describe his music. Bluesy feels like a rather lazy and overly broad term...bluesy with a dash of Africa perhaps. And a generous slug of drill provided by the adjacent building works, the competing presence of which, Adi told me, didn't help make for a great pitch. The name of a South African band called Juluka popped into my head. Then the bus came. And I forgot to ask Adi whether he was singing his own songs.
July 10th - Day 83
My original intention was to catch the street piano at The Tate Modern, only there isn't a street piano at The Tate Modern - it's at The Tate Britain. So it was back through the walkways under the South Bank bridges for me. I found accordian and drum under Blackfriars Bridge. I haven't seen these two as accordian and drummer before, but I have the feeling that I may have seen them in another guise, perhaps playing something else with a couple of others. There seem to be a posse of these ragtime gypsy-swing jazzmen playing in some form or other under at least one bridge at any given time. And they're all bloody good. I must get to the bottom of this. The photo shows today's duo being cheered and "arriba-ed!" by schoolchildren. Well, the children cheered - their teacher led the "arribas!"
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