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Bill Laws is the author of sixteen books, including Fifty Railways that Changed the Course of History and Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History. He has been busking for a couple of years. www.billlaws.com

Saturday, 30 April 2011

On the street

Street performance - Shrewsbury 2010

Blow, winds, blow. Terry the Teacher learned his craft in the military. He’d blow into a military locker to practise quietly. ‘It meant that when you played in the open you got a good sound.’
Busker Steve plays in the underpass in our city. ‘Takes me about an hour to warm up,’ he says, crouching, guitar on his lap, howling his high tenor voice. ‘The acoustic here, it changes wherever you stand. But it’s good, just in the entrance.’