Comments on: Buskers Shock and Wow!!! http://www.buskerworld.com/busking-and-street-performing/buskers-shock-and-wow Busker World - Your Comprehensive Guide To Busking Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:50:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Johnnie Mac http://www.buskerworld.com/busking-and-street-performing/buskers-shock-and-wow/comment-page-1#comment-54 Johnnie Mac Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:28:04 +0000 http://www.buskerworld.com/blog/blog/buskers-shock-and-wow#comment-54 Thanks Albert appreciate your comments. Stanmore Pheonix is a busker from Sydney. He is doing what many buskers I know, myself included have wanted to do. Take there act from the street to the next level. In this day and age that can be on stage, via video or by creating an effective online presence, which is what this blog is all about. I found the response from buskers at this conference to be more enthusiastic than other more professional musicians. The buskers had a greater desire to succeed with there art and in many cases this had arisen from their experience on the street. Stanmore has had great success as a busker and whilst he still busks he also performs on stage and creates recordings/videos of his music to help increase his profile and income, something all buskers should consider if they dont make enough on the street. The term DIRGE could become quite a useful description of a form of rock music (as with grunge) so I will pass that on to Stanmore. You are right in saying that people prefer up beat melodies on the street but that never has stopped me playing what I love or making a lot of money in a short space of time by playing unfamiliar punk songs when the moment is right. Perhaps this song isnt for everyone but it certainly impressed 60 plus attendees at the conference. The lesson here is the right song at the right time and Stanmore's music has a good following. His job, as with all of us is to find those that will like our music whether on the street, on stage or on line. Stanmore does all three admirably, whether I like his music or not is never the issue, Stanmore is finding those that love his music successfully as a busker and as a musician and there the kind of performers that struggling buskers/musicians love to hear about and emulate. Not everyone wants to take their act off the street, I stayed there for many years quite happily, but for those that do this blog offers them a story of buskers and other performers who are doing this successfully. Thanks Albert appreciate your comments. Stanmore Pheonix is a busker from Sydney. He is doing what many buskers I know, myself included have wanted to do. Take there act from the street to the next level. In this day and age that can be on stage, via video or by creating an effective online presence, which is what this blog is all about. I found the response from buskers at this conference to be more enthusiastic than other more professional musicians. The buskers had a greater desire to succeed with there art and in many cases this had arisen from their experience on the street.

Stanmore has had great success as a busker and whilst he still busks he also performs on stage and creates recordings/videos of his music to help increase his profile and income, something all buskers should consider if they dont make enough on the street.

The term DIRGE could become quite a useful description of a form of rock music (as with grunge) so I will pass that on to Stanmore. You are right in saying that people prefer up beat melodies on the street but that never has stopped me playing what I love or making a lot of money in a short space of time by playing unfamiliar punk songs when the moment is right. Perhaps this song isnt for everyone but it certainly impressed 60 plus attendees at the conference.

The lesson here is the right song at the right time and Stanmore’s music has a good following. His job, as with all of us is to find those that will like our music whether on the street, on stage or on line. Stanmore does all three admirably, whether I like his music or not is never the issue, Stanmore is finding those that love his music successfully as a busker and as a musician and there the kind of performers that struggling buskers/musicians love to hear about and emulate. Not everyone wants to take their act off the street, I stayed there for many years quite happily, but for those that do this blog offers them a story of buskers and other performers who are doing this successfully.

]]> By: Albert Anglo http://www.buskerworld.com/busking-and-street-performing/buskers-shock-and-wow/comment-page-1#comment-53 Albert Anglo Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:03:07 +0000 http://www.buskerworld.com/blog/blog/buskers-shock-and-wow#comment-53 Hi. Just played the vid of "Stanmore Phoenix" and I could see straightaway that he was not in a busking situation. It was indoors for a start and he had a drums etc backing him! How can you present this as busking? He did not have to stand in the cold and play guitar and sing until his hands froze into paws. Also, where was his audience? A lot of busking performance comes from crowd response. The sombre song would not be popular either. People like stuff with either a strong beat or strong melody and this dirge had neither. Your average tourist does not have music per se as a major part of his/her life but you have to give something that will make them listen and give money. This would not do that. Hi. Just played the vid of “Stanmore Phoenix” and I could see straightaway that he was not in a busking situation. It was indoors for a start and he had a drums etc backing him! How can you present this as busking? He did not have to stand in the cold and play guitar and sing until his hands froze into paws. Also, where was his audience? A lot of busking performance comes from crowd response. The sombre song would not be popular either. People like stuff with either a strong beat or strong melody and this dirge had neither. Your average tourist does not have music per se as a major part of his/her life but you have to give something that will make them listen and give money. This would not do that.

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