{"id":10611,"date":"2013-01-12T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=10611"},"modified":"2013-01-12T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T20:25:14","slug":"busking-drummer-blasts-out-the-beats-in-brixton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/busking-drummer-blasts-out-the-beats-in-brixton\/","title":{"rendered":"Busking drummer blasts out the beats in Brixton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"busking-drummer-brixton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/busking-drummer-brixton.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m used to being greeted by all sorts of weird and\u00a0wonderful\u00a0noises when I come out of Brixton tube, but tonight the volume\u00a0level\u00a0was a bit higher than usual, with a busker blasting away on a full-sized drum kit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"busking-drummer-brixton-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/busking-drummer-brixton-1.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most buskers use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/puncture-kit-busker-plays-on-a-drum-kit-made-from-a-bicycle-in-central-london\/\" target=\"_blank\">tiny drum kits<\/a>, but this fella had an immense set up, with a substantial array of toms, cymbals, cowbells and twin snare drums, \u00a0supplemented by a laptop, lights, monitor speaker and a generator to power it all.<\/p>\n<p>With that amount of equipment, he probably needs a small van and a roadie or two to lug all the gear about &#8211; and he&#8217;d have no chance of making a quick getaway of the cops get on his case!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Busking drummer blasts out the beats in Brixton \" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/busking-drummer-brixton-2.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That said, he&#8217;s a fantastic drummer and should be known to most seasoned festival goers as he often pops up in at UK events across the summer &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0the last time I saw him he was bashing merry hell out of his kit at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/festivals\/boomtown-fair-2012-photos.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boomtown festival<\/a>\u00a0(see photo below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Boomtown Fair festival 2012 at The Bowl, Matterley Estate, nr. Winchester, Hampshire with music, theatre, comedy and art, Thursday 9th until Sunday 12th August 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/festivals\/images\/boomtown-fair-2012-photos-12.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re after a small drum kit yourself, check out this guide:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/building-an-extra-small-extra-nimble-super-portable-drum-kit-for-gigging-drummers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Building and buying an extra small, super-portable drum kit for gigging drummers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m used to being greeted by all sorts of weird and\u00a0wonderful\u00a0noises when I come out of Brixton tube, but tonight the volume\u00a0level\u00a0was a bit higher than usual, with a busker &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,54,43,17,193],"tags":[1191,506,236],"class_list":["post-10611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-festivals","category-music","category-photos","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-busking","tag-drums"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/busking-drummer-brixton.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2L9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10611"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10617,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions\/10617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}