Jade's Music Blog

Firstly this one from Deano:

"Hi Jade, love the page and will return!!!

I've just got my London Underground busker's licence and I love it! I play acoustic guitar and sing my heart out as many times as I can fit in along with my 48 hour a week office job! I first busked in Puerto Banus, Spain.

Some gypsy guys weren't doing so well with the English lager louts so I gave them five euros to borrow their guitar for five minutes.

I played "Don't look back in Anger" and had about 100 people in the second strip singing along...it was amazing...until the police moved me on and made me give the guitar back!!!

Anyway, I busked a bit around Europe and I'm saving up to do a world tour beginning at the end of the year....I'll keep you posted!!! Buskers, a question....do we have a patron saint?"

And then this one, from Alan Wignall, too:

"Hi Jade,

Just been searching through youtube for buskers and came across one of the best buskers in the world and guess what he's a Liverpool lad!!

Ed Alleyne Johnson plays a distinctive and mean purple electric violin which he built himself. Ed was born in Liverpool studied in Oxford and returned to marry and live in Liverpool.

Ed has composed his own modern violin concerto's and covered some of the great pop and rock songs of the last 3 decades from Kylie's Can't get you out of my Head to Lynyrd Skynyrd's Freebird. Ed used to often be seen in Church Street but these days your more likely to see him in York following a magnificent stint in Chester.

This guy just has to be heard to be believed, he's supported New Model Army, busked in Europe and America, appeared on the BBC as a guest of Jools Holland and has played Glastonbury and many other festivals.

I guess Ed just loves music and bringing that love to the public because with his talent he'd knocked spots off most of our pop idol, X factor and We've got Talent winners and no doubt could have made a lot more money.

So hats off to the best busker in Britain, Ed Alleyne Johnson.

Appreciate the music but remember to leave a little appreciation for the musician."

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