A Musical Battle For Busking Spots In The Underground | The Tube | Spark
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- For years, busking on the tube was illegal, because unsupervised performers posed safety problems. But surveys have shown that 80% of customers wanted to hear good music as they traveled on the underground network. This lead to what we now know as the tube busking scheme.
Summer 2003 was no easy feat for the people working on the tube, making sure day to day workings of the underground ran as smoothly as possible. From strikes to repairs, to world records, join us as we get to know the unsung heroes of the Tube.
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This scheme is still in use to this day. As of 2021.
Thank you, was looking for a comment like this
It's a great idea!
Dude, that harmonica, man.
Shame they didn't follow up on Errol Linton - a very talented harmonica player. Regularly features on BBC Radio 2's Blues show. If you like that sort of stuff have a search on CZcams for him
I will
UK: "Busking is a safety risk"
NYC: "Fight the rats for a good spot"
12:16 _We knew there was a very clever man down there with a didgeridoo_ 😂
And then she said I wonder how a man from Portsmouth got into playing the didgeridoo. *With his mums hoover tube, but he didn't tell you that did he love!* 😂
I always tip buskers. They’re desperate for money and worked hard to get the permit they needed to even start busking!
Jasmine Johnston only the good ones!
Only the ones that aren’t dross
Nah, get a fucking job, if someone like me who's a dignosed schizophrenic and 55% burned can work a normal life, so can they.
@@Mr_Makina Not always desperate, often just an enjoyable way to make a bit more cash :)
@@Mr_Makina That is their job.
Arts is a career fam.
21:10 “this isn’t someone playing the didgeridoo, this is someone PLAYING the didgeridoo!”
Katie Jenkinson pure class 👍
I love how in a lot of the Canary Wharf scenes you can just hear the 96 stock in the background
21:10 Smashing! It’s Nigel Thorneberry!
Haha! Splendiferous
have heard some amazing buskers on the tube...
That didgeridoo guy is great as its real difficult to learn to play it
I don't understand! They blur the CarlingLIVE logo half the time and the other we can see it clearly! Do they want to blur it or not?!
Alright, calm down the world's still turning.
They company only paid them half the money
The programme will have been made to be broadcast to TV, on CRT screens with a relatively low resolution. Likely the wider shots the logo wasn’t legible on those screens back in the day but they were in the closer shots so they blurred it then. Now it’s been digitised and we use higher resolution screens, it’s really visible to us.
choo choo I love this show. :D
Where's bob Marley impersonator. I would give him a license
i would not ;)
If I understood his name right (Errol Linton), then he is doing allright, search for "Errol Linton Boom Boom" for example.
@@MazeFrame that's not the bob marley impersonator
That black conductor has shot him in a field
I’m a year late but, 5:27 ;)
16:28 the iMac G3 lol shows how old this show is
@@wesleyweih112 ohhh no, 2003!
Yeah it’s old. Throwback for young tech nerds
The British currency is interesting
This is how I want to spend my days after I retire.
21:18 he looks about as docile as Boris Johnson
Adam Games I was thinking the exact same lol
5:45 wasn’t that harmonica piece in railroad tycoon 3?
hahaha damn close to it i think
Could be Dixieland Train or Harp How-Down
Lol
I can remember a few years back being on a train bound for Heathrow Airport. The train made a station stop and either three or four guys jumped aboard the train and started playing jazz music, they were brilliant. They played till the next station stop and got off, I guess that was to avoid officials.
Had a similar experience in Toronto last year, guy got on the train at St Clair with a speaker and an accordion, and played lively music all the way to Bloor, when he finished his performance, everyone on the train clapped, I tipped him the equivalent of 4 quid
Freakung LOVE serious buskers!
oh how wonderful! I hope I get to spend some time in London and take the tube for commute..
Manoj Patankar this is like wishing death upon yourself
The underground is a pretty depressing place, after literally a day or two you will start to hate it, the heat, the crowds, and these buskers are not so common.
I love music! I play the Violin, Piano, Guitar and now learning Ukulele in school.
Ok
The bloke on the didgeridoo played very well!
Popular busking place in Vancouver: Waterfront SeaBus terminal
This week on Busking With The Stars.
Cool
Is it still "busking" if you have to jump through official hoops?
i yhink i only saw ONE train out of the full episode at that was here ---> 0:50
beau emmerson u did here train NOISES didn’t u
Its a fake underground man did you not know that?
!It never works well sometimes it works, most of the time it works" Have a word love!
great to see people without phones constantly in their hands, good times
Ok boomer.
Nobody talked to anybody else anyway. The only difference is people aren't so bored because they have phones
He was really mean towards the violin player.
I like the digeridoo. :-)
21:05 😂😂😂
lol legend
John is 45!?!?!?!?!? Tough paper round.
My brudda looks about 75 😭😭
Dude must smoke felt-tip pens to be looking like that at 45, christ...
Good people
Neat.
Happiness is the prime wealth.
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Summer 03??
Yes, the programme ran between 2002-06.
This show is so old now.
most entertaining!
The next thing you know, they'll all have cash registers and they'll be handing you receipts. :)
sarcasm is the lowest form of wit
Border Reiver is it really?
Border Reiver Oscar Wilde 🤗
And the busking scene will survive through a cashless society. :)
After that, they start to accept contactless...
The single flutes & esp violones are just annoying in the long run.. But the didgeridoo guy Steven is great!
How are those native american flute players everywhere either in groups or alone? They were at least all over europe at one point..
COMIC SANS!!!
I feel bad for that guy with the recorder that people didn't leave money for him :(
I'm not very surprised. He'd've given them all a splitting headache.
Generally thought the last episode was the last!
there's another season i think
From the Wikipedia page, looks like this was a special that originally aired just after season 1. Looks like season 3 aired in late 2005, with another 6 episodes, plus another pair of special episodes that aired just before season 3 about the 7/7 bombings.
The Wikipedia page also states that this episode was originally broadcast in February 2003 but the episode itself (claims to be) set in "Summer 2003".
OurTube on CZcams.
Did I hear the minutemen radio
Win win
45 years old??? And the rest.
Haha
15.06 thats not £8. my guy had the coppers.
Well normally you pocket the 50ps, £1 and £2 coins and only leave the shrapnel out so people feel inclined to give you more. Not always, but I know some people play it that way.
There are beggars and buskers operating aboard this train please do not encourage there presence by supporting them (I swear I heard this somewhere)
I give that episode two 👍 👇
Why?
This is DEFINITELY different in SO many ways to the buskers I've seen in the past - dirty, disheveled, with flea and lice infested hair, barefoot with filthy dirty feet and overgrown hooks for toenails, 20 year old muck and nasal mucous under their fingernails and then they fix their eyes on you and your every movement and glare right through you as if you are possessed.
your dinner is in the dog? when was this a saying?
When the husband came home late from work, she thought he was maybe shagging someone, so out of anger gave his dinner to the dog. Went out and left a note on the fridge ' your dinners in the dog'
So, begging is illegal on the tube, but legalised begging (Technically what busking is), is okay)? No, begging is begging. I won't give to any beggers, buskers included.
Busking isn't begging. They're providing free music to the public and accept tips but don't solicit. Shame you have such a nasty outlook on a very honest way to make a bit of money.
What “they say” may not be true lolz
Classical, rock, metal, doom metal, black metal, death metal, atmospheric metal, symphonic metal, doom metal, gothic metal, gothic rock........
1:46 bring Simon Cowell instead
Kick um out
0:45
3:50
I wonder who they have to sleep with to get the best pitches. I know in my town many a fight happens between people begging and busking and trying to lay claim to pitches.
Once they have a license, they book a 2 hour slot at a specified spot on a specified station.
7:57 did that narrator say the b word?
It sounds like ‘bitches’ but he is supposed to say ‘pitches’
K
7th
3:04 that's clearly a green screen
They blurred out the background behind him because it had logos on
@@battytec Lmao you can see the logo like 3 seconds before during the interview in the back clear as day
Loved the opera singer. Can't stand the recorder.
I don't even consider the recorder a musical instrument.
@@giuseppenero110 Sorry bud, its an instrument. And a bloody good one.
The London underground has always been the unofficial home for those not talented enough for x-factor
I'd rather listen to the recorder lad all day int tube than watch X-Factor, can't lie...
5th
I can tell you the didgeridoo is not the fairest instrument. The fact that non-aboriginals and women cannot play the instrument in nomadic aboriginal traditions goes to show that no one race is perfect. Just my two cents, and something to think about.
I zoom past buskers as quick as possible as the music echo hurts my ears
the most boring episode ever zzzZZZzzzZZZ
you have no music in your soul, sir.
@Erik Ensing LOL! 😝
Its boring yes, but it is what the tube is sometimes
@@knownothing5518 might be, a love dramas 💁♂️
it didn't grab me personally but no one is forcing you to watch it.
maybe the ladies should open their blouse just a little bit more….like the lady singer angelina….that will attract the guys more than the music….and as everybody knows…..sex sells
roger bixley you weirdo
@@jamesdavison1786 hes right
@@jamesdavison1786 any guy that didn´t look down her cleavage must be gay...wehe for big tits...
5th