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"Bad busking in Killarney has driven local workers to distraction, so quality control is being imposed. But judging Dublin’s street entertainers is a tricky business, writes KEVIN COURTNEY
THEY’RE A FIXTURE on our streets, working in rain or shine (but mostly shine). They pitch up in alcoves, in front of hoardings and shop windows or on strategic corners, strumming Beatles classics, standing like statues for the afternoon or gyrating to ghetto blasters. Many of them no doubt dream that one day they will be spotted by a record-company mogul, and be swept off to play at the O2, but the rest of the time most are just hoping to go home with enough money to buy dinner, a few drinks and perhaps a new E string.
They add colour to a busy street for many of us. But, as they tunelessly bash out the same handful of songs day in and day out, they irritate a lot of us, too – including Killarney Town Council, which is to introduce bylaws to get rid of bad buskers from its streets after complaints from local businesses...
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0122/1224288063551.html
THEY’RE A FIXTURE on our streets, working in rain or shine (but mostly shine). They pitch up in alcoves, in front of hoardings and shop windows or on strategic corners, strumming Beatles classics, standing like statues for the afternoon or gyrating to ghetto blasters. Many of them no doubt dream that one day they will be spotted by a record-company mogul, and be swept off to play at the O2, but the rest of the time most are just hoping to go home with enough money to buy dinner, a few drinks and perhaps a new E string.
They add colour to a busy street for many of us. But, as they tunelessly bash out the same handful of songs day in and day out, they irritate a lot of us, too – including Killarney Town Council, which is to introduce bylaws to get rid of bad buskers from its streets after complaints from local businesses...
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/0122/1224288063551.html
