Life as a Full Time Busker: Pros and Cons
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I just wanted to take a moment and say you are an absolutely fantastic human being. Your view on life, the gratitude you show, and how hard you work to spread a positive message is incredible. As a fellow full time busker for over a year, who travels around the UK finding new spots, not only do I find your content so useful, but it resonates so much with how you perceive your situation and why we do what we do. Your attitude towards busking is the perfect way to view it, as a way to spread so much happiness, connect with strangers in such a beautiful way and work on ourselves as musicians and as humans. It teaches so many lessons in the goodness of people and to show gratitude to the world.
I look at myself as a very positive person and eternally grateful to be able to do something I love every day and earn a living from it, but there have been inevitable days that I struggle to find the motivation to get myself out and busk. Then after watching a video of yours, I’ve been inspired all over again and found that kick I needed to go out there spread some smiles.
I appreciate your content incredibly. Keep inspiring people, putting in the hard work, and spreading busking as one of the most amazing things a musician can do at any point in their career.
I hope to run into you one day on the streets buddy :)
Wow, I'm not even sure what to say to this. Thank you so much for this comment, it's made my day! Dang! It's even made my week!! 😀🧡 This type of reaction (and interaction) is the exact reason I make these videos - to know that they inspire like this just completely blows me away and I am so grateful you take the time to watch them and leave comments like these! It's freakin' incredible!
I genuinely believe us buskers have the power to not only transform the vibe of a high street but through playing live music and spreading happiness, we can uplift the entire country, dare I say it - the entire world. Music is magic and were the messengers that spread it to those who don't even realise it's what they need! I'm so stoked these videos help motivate to get you out there because spreading that magic is what is needed! ✊🌍✌
Thank you for the love and support - definitely come say Hi when we do run into each other! 🙌
Busking takes nothing but pure grinding. You need to work for hours to make money.
Plus transport and moving spots and pitches. There are so many talented musicians who can’t make money due to the at times corrupted music industry your a hard worker ARP. you deserve some credit. Keep it up
Thank you so much! It's the best kind of 'hard work', full of true reward when witnessing the impact it has on people of the street 🙌 I appreciate the love and support so much! Thank you again! 😀
Rad! Street musicians are the unexpected surprise in an otherwise mundane day! 🎉
Exactly 😃🙌🏻 surprise and delight - something all of us love!
Sir this video is just amazingly positive and brilliantly produced ! Full Power Truth on this thing we call Busking ! I am not surprised your radiant music and smile gives you and people around you a Brighter day.... and this is and should always be the real reason why anyone should want to pick up an instrument and sing a song to others ! Keep On Crushing it August "Rush" Radio.! Might be nice to organise some Buskers Guild and have people send in a recorded song and then organise some venue where the say, 20 best judged songs are put on somwhere fancy ! Could be a nice source of video content for your channel and increase connection treaffic ! Your channel and its Life message deserves to be truly rewarded and given exposure !
Thank you so much! These comments are blowing me away! Truly truly grateful to have a community like these following the journey and the channel! 🙌 I absolutely love the idea of doing something like this and it's something I've thought about already - it will take some organisation but maybe if others get on board to we can make something happen! I think it's a must to bring together the community into a 'real life' situation ! 😀
Great video. What Spotify is doing to musicians is absolutely criminal. The series The Playlist does a good job exposing it. Busking allows musicians to make money directly from the people with no middle man.
It’s true!! I’ll have to check out The Playlist - I’m yet to watch it 🙌🏻 busking is proof that people value music and it’s an absolute joy to witness it 😃✌🏻
No kidding! I really know the "old time hippies", small world this is
No way!! The one's in the picture?! This is a stock photo I got from Adobe! 🤣😄
@@AugustRadioProject jajaja well, they are actyally active buskers. Ive met them near Barcelona.
Another excellent video thanks. I have never earned anything like your income, but I consider my busking to be a paid rehearsal. I love it.
Thank you Marshlander!! 😃🙌 it's the greatest rehearsal of all time! No disturbing neighbours and earning some £££ whilst at it! So rad!
You’re spot on about it being a rehearsal, my busking tunes are now my best!
It’s so good eh! I can’t believe how quick the improvement happens through busking too! 😃🙌🏻 that’s rad you’re at your best - good place to be!
Great video! Did you see the video where Jason Maher made 1000 dollars in one day from busking? That's some pretty good money for a day's work! He's a magician though, but it's still busking :)
Thank you! 😃🙌🏻 and I haven’t seen it - 1000 in a day is bonkers but just goes to show it’s possible. I’ll check out the video 😊 thanks for the recommendation!
wow. what a lovely video. very encouraging for beginners and experienced alike.
No problem! Thank you for the comment! I honestly want to encourage everyone to busk - it's definitely something every musician should try! 😀🙌
Love this thanks so much ARP 🙏 we only live once so best embrace in the things that excite us and bring us fulfilment - guess it’s whatever floats ur boat! 😄
Thank you Elliot!! Your words are so true, gotta embrace and live every moment!! 😀🙌
A very good and very informative video. Thanks very much.
Thank you
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❤. Dude I’ve had great days busking .. the last time was terrible I mean terrible!! Oh well next time!
They happen! and when they do... they can feel demoralising! BUT it will turn around and then you're back to being back on that Busking High! 😀🙌
Glad someone covered the most effective way to make sure your music and rehearsal are merging. Without the hassle of a regimented hierarchy of the conventional mindset of a commercial record company that doesn't fathom what a real artist is. That narrative you explain is what we need to inspire the lives and LIVELIHOODS of our Musician and songwriting brotherhood. After more than 40 years of busking the best description I've encountered is in this lecture video you have above. Awesome Ray Sunshine...world famous Busker.....
Dang, so well said!! I completely agree - it seems so obvious once you've discovered how much busking improves you as a musician but it definitely doesn't seem to be widely known throughout musicians - definitely something worth spreading! 😃🙌
Thank you for the video matey!
No problem 🙌🏻😃 thank you for the comment!
Love, love, love it, man! Such wisdom here.
I appreciate it 🙌🏻 thank you and stoked you think this 😃
Spot on fantastic video! Thank you
Thank you!! Love the continued support my friend! 😀🙌
Brother thank you for the well presented and to the point information on this world/profession. I’m a guitarist and multi genre producer of 13 years, got a crazy mishmash of music performance and disciplines in my background and I’ve been struggling with the grind crushing me for so long. I recently got completely exploited and conned by a bar which I managed that stopped paying me then closed shop and ran away without paying me and my team a months wages. It’s been financially brutal but a wake up call to the fact that as you’ve said here, I’m just putting my passion on the back burner because I haven’t thought outside the box enough. All for the sake of people who don’t care about any of us in the least too. In researching busking, I’ve watched a few of your videos and they’ve been thoroughly informative and have encouraged me to have a good crack at creating an atmospheric live loop street performance as I was thinking about doing earlier tonight! Your point on free rehearsal really resonates in particular and just having agency over my own path. Lots of love from Glasgow
Dang, I'm sorry to hear about your job and how you were treated but stoked that you're using it as fuel to move into music!! I'm also stoked the videos have helped! 😃🙌 I've heard good things about busking in Glasgow too!
Busking is INCREDIBLE for rehearsal. I can't express that enough! ☺
Sometimes what can feel like the worse thing leads to the very best of things! Good luck out there, I really hope it goes well!
Great video! Thanks for the insight! I did do busking once, and I can't wait to continue doing it!
Yes!! Thank you - keep at it! 😃🙌
awesome list! wishing you many successful busks in the future 🎉 keep sharing the positive vibes ☺️🎸👍🏻
Thank you thank you!! To you too!! 😀🙌
Well explained, I love your videos a lot .ur smile is very nice
Thank you so much!! 😀🙌✌
Human Connection is Powerful
Great video ❤
The most powerful!! Thank you 😃🙌🏻
You are amazing mate. Thank you for your contribution to the musical world. I will try it 👏👏👏👍
Thank you so much for the kind words, I appreciate it 😃🙌🏻
Soli Deo Gloria! Thanks for the encouragement man. God bless you and your craft.
Soli Deo Gloria
-Ronnie
Thank you Ronnie! 😃🙌🏻 I really appreciate it ✌🏻
Fantastic video, thankyou!
..yep, best job in the world!!! 😄🤘🎶 I look forward to every new day and the joy it brings ❤️
Ps. I love your vids of the different towns too, some I've played in too (Horsham today 😁👍) ...thankyou for your generosity in sharing with your fellow buskers and potential new buskers...here's to keeping live music out there on the streets! 💃🕺😁👍
Thank you so much 😃 that’s so rad to hear! I love knowing more and more of the busking community - it’s so awesome 🙌🏻 stoked you played in Horsham - I love that town. Thank you so much for the comment - keep the streets live! ✌🏻
Just got yourself one more subscriber bro! Great video.
Thank you so much!! I appreciate it! 🙌😃
Thankyou. !! X
Thank you! 😀🙌
Very nice ❤
Thank you 😃🙌🏻
You are not unemployed, you're self-employed - a one-man company.
Exactly! 😃🙌🏻
Great energy. I'm inspired! - also what is that black jacket you have on at 0:33?
Thank you! The jacket is a BDG jacket from urban outfitters 🙌🏻😃
off to do some busking tomorrow with a better attitude
It took me a long time to start making decent money. So it was low-pay for some time. But, in contrast, I actually went to college which I had to pay for, and that not only didn't pay, but it actually kept me poorer by quite a bit than if I'd stayed the hell away from the college scam. At least in my own experience, busking is 1000X better than college.
I hear you! Busking is definitely one of the best things I've found for getting a return for your put in! 😃 Sorry to hear about your college experience but stoked you're out there busking!
Great points and I appreciate your upbeat energy but you are in a place where busking is embraced on the whole, in small towns and cities. I have done street gigs in London, Denmark, Germany and it is more appreciated there than USA, well near Boston. Ok so in Boston, I made a bus kn the Commons (there is a busking scene! but it is very clositered and loud had a horn player nearby) it was not much at all for tips, but Cape Cod I made 4xs the amount but still it was not what you get in quid for an hour or 2! I live in a sea town with tourists but they frown on busking bigtime in the smaller places between Boston and Cape Cod, shame. You have any thoughts? keep rocking and cheers :) 🎸
It's true, I'm grateful the UK is so receptive to buskers and that it's a respected (by most!) thing here. I'm definitely interested in heading out to the US for a busking road trip though. It's definitely on the plan!! 😀🙌 It's intriguing that it perhaps isn't as well received there... my suggestion would be to maybe be clear on your message - perhaps a put out a sign? Maybe people in that area of the US frown on the idea of busking as they don't quite realise what it is and what it's for... It's hard to frown upon somebody who is playing music to spread positivity and good energy, maybe write something like "Music to spread Love & Positivity" on the sign, then "Donations Welcome" underneath at the bottom? Let me know if you try and if it makes any difference ✌
@@AugustRadioProject Boston knows busking they just don't tip as well as the Cape! maybe too many buskers in a concentrated area? (the US tube / the "t" you need a license for a pitch but its free to busk in the Public Gardens or the Commons etc. Hyannis/Cape Cod you need a license but you get much better tips or I did.) That is a cool idea about the "Music to spread Love & Positivity" sign which my songs certainly are as thats the aim! I will tell you how that goes if I try once again when it warms up and more people are about. Thanks cheers 😊 🎸
Like your videos, i'm thinking about busking at the seaside in Poland this summer. Got my equipment, now i'm working on repertoire, got 5 or meybe 7 songs prepared i think i'll start with 10-12 songs. I have a question or maybe an idea for a video - how do you know that you are good enough to busk?
That's awesome!! I hope it goes well - I'm sure it will! 😀 would love to make it over to Poland at some point for Polish busking adventure! 🙌 It's a great question and very valid. I'll maybe go into it on a video but my brief answer is this: You won't know until you try. The best thing about busking is it's a self-fulling prophecy because through going busking you rehearse and improve. You might not be making waves when you first begin but just keep getting out there and over time you'll see that it starts working. The more you go, the better you get, the more successful busks you'll have! 😁 my advice is to just get out there, and then keep heading out. It'll likely surprise you at how quickly you'll improve!
Just get out and do it. There is a busker here (I won't say where) that when she started out a few years ago she once received a fiver and a comment, "Use this for singing lessons." She is now very good. The ONLY way you become good is to keep doing it. Of course you have to practice at home, learn new songs, etc but the only real "practice" for live performance is...live performance.
Forget the concept that if you practice a song enough it home it will be perfect the first time you play it live. It won't. The only way it becomes perfect live is to keep playing it live!
So this is such a great concept and I'm glad there are other young guys like me who have a good head on their shoulders and dont plan on conforming to the standard 9-5, now I am curious, I have a very good voice and can scream gritty lyrics, also sing melodically like chester bennington, do a mid kind of grit like layne stayley from alice in chains, trying to kinda describe my voice is hard lol, but I mostly like to sing loud rock kind of music, I can do softer but that doesnt really showcase the extent of my talent very well, I cant play any instruments as of right now but I still write lyrics and am really good at it, I also write raps and ive been using free instrumentals on youtube to write songs and raps to, but so I'm curious, lets say for example I bought myself an amp and microphone for singing, and bought a bigger sort of Bluetooth speaker for the youtube instrumentals, would there be a limit to how loud I could sing? I know some areas have decibal limits from some other videos I've watched, I live in the USA in Minnesota but want to travel when I get the chance, I'm really sick of Minnesota and want to see more of what the world has to offer, but yeah is there any places where I could busk without sounds limits? Sorry for the long winded question, I hope it makes sense, great video btw!
Sounds epic dude - Chester Bennington’s voice has got to be one of the greatest ever rock voices! 🎤🤩 you can definitely get yourself a speaker and busk using backing tracks - there are many that do. As for for volume limit… it’s hard to say as I’ve never busked in the US but here in the UK you can definitely be ‘too loud’, things vary depending on where you are and the make up of the street but generally a kind of just above the ‘street ambience’ is best practice 😊🙌🏻
@@AugustRadioProject hell Yeah brother, thank you for the response! Wishing you the best in your music journey 😊
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Or you can get fined like me. I don't do it for money or for fame, I do it because it's a stress relief. I'm not professional and I don't exactly want people to hear me. But I get fined for trying to play on my downtime. I record myself but I do it to better myself.
My town also has a nasty noise ordinance where it is solely up to the police officer and judge whether they can cite you. There is no time limit and they legit call on anyone that isn't some established artist. Doesn't matter if it's on the weekend either.
I grew up 3 blocks away from a Catholic church that threw a polka fest EVERY summer. I didn't wanna listen to that sh1t! But god forbid I play some Slipknot or Fit For A King on some drums, or actually God Forbid, and I'm the devil.
As a drummer too, repetition is everything. If I don't play for a long time, of course I'm sloppy and miss notes. But when you can't play without risking citation or even having a legit place to play, it makes it difficult.
muy cierto todo lo que dice, a pesar de ser joven sabe muy bien como es la vida de un busker y yo lo soy y tengo 41
¡Muchas gracias! 😃🙌