A Musical Battle For Busking Spots In The Underground | The Tube

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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@katiejenkinson9521 4 жыл бұрын

21:10 “this isn’t someone playing the didgeridoo, this is someone PLAYING the didgeridoo!”

@Hammertime054 4 жыл бұрын

Katie Jenkinson pure class 👍

@mynamehappy 3 жыл бұрын

UK: "Busking is a safety risk" NYC: "Fight the rats for a good spot"

@scottchristie6734 2 жыл бұрын

This scheme is still in use to this day. As of 2021.

@declan5073 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, was looking for a comment like this

@broadway254 5 жыл бұрын

Dude, that harmonica, man.

@chilli-iceolive-abode2447 3 жыл бұрын

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!* 😂

@chrislaing7153 4 жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq for him

@MisatoBestWoman Жыл бұрын

I will

@jasminejohnston6393 5 жыл бұрын

I always tip buskers. They’re desperate for money and worked hard to get the permit they needed to even start busking!

@sosteam2797 4 жыл бұрын

Jasmine Johnston only the good ones!

@BossySwan 4 жыл бұрын

Only the ones that aren’t dross

@Mr_Makina 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@samwillee4197 3 жыл бұрын

@@Mr_Makina Not always desperate, often just an enjoyable way to make a bit more cash :)

@saltmerchant749 3 жыл бұрын

@@Mr_Makina That is their job. Arts is a career fam.

@mikecartlidge5355 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@wilfstor3078 5 ай бұрын

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

@JonsVlogz 3 жыл бұрын

21:10 Smashing! It’s Nigel Thorneberry!

@googleuser3163 3 жыл бұрын

Haha! Splendiferous

@randomchannel5386 5 жыл бұрын

16:28 the iMac G3 lol shows how old this show is

@joegreenwood6551 4 жыл бұрын

@@wesleyweih112 ohhh no, 2003!

@Mnrr6131 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s old. Throwback for young tech nerds

@borderreiver3288 4 жыл бұрын

have heard some amazing buskers on the tube...

@dave1001 3 жыл бұрын

That didgeridoo guy is great as its real difficult to learn to play it

@aranstuart566 3 жыл бұрын

great to see people without phones constantly in their hands, good times

@they-call-me-mister-trash847 2 жыл бұрын

Ok boomer.

@Jason-Murillo-2001 Жыл бұрын

Nobody talked to anybody else anyway. The only difference is people aren't so bored because they have phones

@farhanwakil3800 4 жыл бұрын

Where's bob Marley impersonator. I would give him a license

@stefanocoppo3949 4 жыл бұрын

i would not ;)

@MazeFrame 4 жыл бұрын

If I understood his name right (Errol Linton), then he is doing allright, search for "Errol Linton Boom Boom" for example.

@meckcervellone 4 жыл бұрын

@@MazeFrame that's not the bob marley impersonator

@joebcfcable 3 жыл бұрын

That black conductor has shot him in a field

@The009975 3 жыл бұрын

I’m a year late but, 5:27 ;)

@DeconvertedMan 5 жыл бұрын

choo choo I love this show. :D

@EddiesTech 5 жыл бұрын

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?!

@adamlacey81 4 жыл бұрын

Alright, calm down the world's still turning.

@theyoutubeguy1 4 жыл бұрын

They company only paid them half the money

@EddieHart 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Dovietail 3 жыл бұрын

Freakung LOVE serious buskers!

@DavisBenjaminA 5 жыл бұрын

5:45 wasn’t that harmonica piece in railroad tycoon 3?

@09gdt 4 жыл бұрын

hahaha damn close to it i think

@MazeFrame 4 жыл бұрын

Could be Dixieland Train or Harp How-Down

@BossySwan 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@shooshoodemoo2610 3 жыл бұрын

!It never works well sometimes it works, most of the time it works" Have a word love!

@blight4959 6 ай бұрын

I love how in a lot of the Canary Wharf scenes you can just hear the 96 stock in the background

@maxwellwynne-shepherd7852 3 жыл бұрын

I love music! I play the Violin, Piano, Guitar and now learning Ukulele in school.

@sebastiansanchez2776 Жыл бұрын

@jduff59 3 жыл бұрын

This is how I want to spend my days after I retire.

@Manoj17Patankar 4 жыл бұрын

oh how wonderful! I hope I get to spend some time in London and take the tube for commute..

@bettyboop9897 4 жыл бұрын

Manoj Patankar this is like wishing death upon yourself

@pipeqez911 Жыл бұрын

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.

@beauemmerson5809 5 жыл бұрын

i yhink i only saw ONE train out of the full episode at that was here ---> 0:50

@prime6134 4 жыл бұрын

beau emmerson u did here train NOISES didn’t u

@Sam-pn2kc 3 жыл бұрын

Its a fake underground man did you not know that?

@jasminejohnston6393 4 жыл бұрын

Popular busking place in Vancouver: Waterfront SeaBus terminal

@pumpnix7243 Жыл бұрын

The bloke on the didgeridoo played very well!

@capitalgoose97 5 жыл бұрын

21:05 😂😂😂

@shirohilight1502 5 жыл бұрын

lol legend

@davidphilpott6606 5 жыл бұрын

most entertaining!

@darkmann12 5 жыл бұрын

COMIC SANS!!!

@theamericane2655 3 жыл бұрын

This week on Busking With The Stars.

@adammoorby99 4 жыл бұрын

21:18 he looks about as docile as Boris Johnson

@scottishpatriot5908 4 жыл бұрын

Adam Games I was thinking the exact same lol

@Petra44YT 2 жыл бұрын

I like the digeridoo. :-)

@RangaNayanajithSilva 2 жыл бұрын

Happiness is the prime wealth. සන්තුට්ටී පරමං දනං

@Khaledamrouche11710 Жыл бұрын

Cool

@MisatoBestWoman 9 ай бұрын

The British currency is interesting

@Sam-pn2kc 3 жыл бұрын

Good people

@DeconvertedMan 5 жыл бұрын

Neat.

@d.martin7692 3 жыл бұрын

Is it still "busking" if you have to jump through official hoops?

@hkinfluenster8713 Жыл бұрын

He was really mean towards the violin player.

@danahsutton101 2 жыл бұрын

Win win

@danielbtdm 5 жыл бұрын

Generally thought the last episode was the last!

@nathanblake9786 5 жыл бұрын

there's another season i think

@Lastof_ 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@TCWordz 5 жыл бұрын

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".

@poochi1877 3 жыл бұрын

This show is so old now.

@skatesneakerlover 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@davidpaterson8056 5 жыл бұрын

John is 45!?!?!?!?!? Tough paper round.

@sinkliner3836 3 жыл бұрын

My brudda looks about 75 😭😭

@googleuser3163 3 жыл бұрын

Dude must smoke felt-tip pens to be looking like that at 45, christ...

@broadsword0072 3 жыл бұрын

OurTube on KZfaq.

@fewgrain4245 5 жыл бұрын

Summer 03??

@OxfordCitaro 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, the programme ran between 2002-06.

@tender1294 3 жыл бұрын

Did I hear the minutemen radio

@piotrekr 4 жыл бұрын

The next thing you know, they'll all have cash registers and they'll be handing you receipts. :)

@borderreiver3288 4 жыл бұрын

sarcasm is the lowest form of wit

@jamesdavison1786 4 жыл бұрын

Border Reiver is it really?

@gemma-louiseridge2331 4 жыл бұрын

Border Reiver Oscar Wilde 🤗

@samwillee4197 3 жыл бұрын

And the busking scene will survive through a cashless society. :)

@Psevdonim123 2 жыл бұрын

After that, they start to accept contactless...

@transport4hustin426 2 жыл бұрын

I feel bad for that guy with the recorder that people didn't leave money for him :(

@jenlfpotter3870 Жыл бұрын

I'm not very surprised. He'd've given them all a splitting headache.

@TaurusSpace 3 жыл бұрын

There are beggars and buskers operating aboard this train please do not encourage there presence by supporting them (I swear I heard this somewhere)

@djmpvae27091978 Жыл бұрын

Classical, rock, metal, doom metal, black metal, death metal, atmospheric metal, symphonic metal, doom metal, gothic metal, gothic rock........

@shaunpierce4174 5 жыл бұрын

45 years old??? And the rest.

@ameia9335 3 жыл бұрын

Haha

@RobMcGinley81 5 жыл бұрын

I give that episode two 👍 👇

@canadajointops 4 жыл бұрын

Why?

@Vaper.22 3 жыл бұрын

1:46 bring Simon Cowell instead

@tomwaldron5643 4 жыл бұрын

15.06 thats not £8. my guy had the coppers.

@chilli-iceolive-abode2447 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@TerryTheNewsGirl Ай бұрын

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.

@googleuser3163 Ай бұрын

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.

@maxwellwynne-shepherd7852 3 жыл бұрын

What “they say” may not be true lolz

@rutabuga 3 жыл бұрын

your dinner is in the dog? when was this a saying?

@broadsword0072 3 жыл бұрын

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'

@chilli-iceolive-abode2447 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@edwardholmes91 2 жыл бұрын

Once they have a license, they book a 2 hour slot at a specified spot on a specified station.

@JustinRichards 3 жыл бұрын

The London underground has always been the unofficial home for those not talented enough for x-factor

@googleuser3163 3 жыл бұрын

I'd rather listen to the recorder lad all day int tube than watch X-Factor, can't lie...

@Khaledamrouche11710 Жыл бұрын

0:45

@Khaledamrouche11710 Жыл бұрын

3:50

@tapup708 3 жыл бұрын

3:04 that's clearly a green screen

@battytec 3 жыл бұрын

They blurred out the background behind him because it had logos on

@tapup708 3 жыл бұрын

@@battytec Lmao you can see the logo like 3 seconds before during the interview in the back clear as day

@qwertyuhi8221 5 жыл бұрын

5th

@reidgibbs 5 жыл бұрын

7th

@tezdiz9133 3 жыл бұрын

Kick um out

@pridenprejudice2004 4 жыл бұрын

Loved the opera singer. Can't stand the recorder.

@giuseppenero110 4 жыл бұрын

I don't even consider the recorder a musical instrument.

@Quibbla 4 жыл бұрын

@@giuseppenero110 Sorry bud, its an instrument. And a bloody good one.

@prime6134 4 жыл бұрын

7:57 did that narrator say the b word?

@Boypogikami132 4 жыл бұрын

It sounds like ‘bitches’ but he is supposed to say ‘pitches’

@prime6134 4 жыл бұрын

@taraelizabethdensley9475 3 жыл бұрын

I zoom past buskers as quick as possible as the music echo hurts my ears

@jamesdawes2845 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@jorgedefreitas1 5 жыл бұрын

the most boring episode ever zzzZZZzzzZZZ

@Erik-ou3tl 5 жыл бұрын

you have no music in your soul, sir.

@reidgibbs 5 жыл бұрын

@Erik Ensing LOL! 😝

@andmos1001 5 жыл бұрын

Its boring yes, but it is what the tube is sometimes

@jorgedefreitas1 5 жыл бұрын

@@knownothing5518 might be, a love dramas 💁‍♂️

@paulanderson79 4 жыл бұрын

it didn't grab me personally but no one is forcing you to watch it.

@rogerbixley791 4 жыл бұрын

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

@jamesdavison1786 4 жыл бұрын

roger bixley you weirdo

@dholispikesingh01 4 жыл бұрын

@@jamesdavison1786 hes right

@rogerbixley791 3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesdavison1786 any guy that didn´t look down her cleavage must be gay...wehe for big tits...