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Originally Posted by sonicl
I've always felt really sorry for anyone who works in a shop outside which a busker has set up his pitch. Particularly if the busker plays violin, as the music is always so depressing that it could cause mass suicides. String quartets are okay though.
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Originally Posted by porkmarras
Not the guy i mentioned though.He plays the shit out of the instrument and he's so good the National lets him play in the main foyer too.
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Oh yeah, violinists who play something other than depressing shit are okay, it's just that so many of them do go for the "depress your audience" angle. Ed Alleyne-Johnson, who used to play with New Model Army, is a splendid example of shit hotness in a busking violinist.