{"id":15377,"date":"2014-09-15T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T08:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=15377"},"modified":"2014-09-15T01:54:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T00:54:06","slug":"the-incredible-fire-breathing-tuba-on-londons-south-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-incredible-fire-breathing-tuba-on-londons-south-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"The incredible fire-breathing tuba on London’s South Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With London’s\u00a0South Bank full up with competing buskers on a Sunday afternoon, the challenge for entertainers is to come up with something fun and unusual enough to catch the eye (and hopefully the wallets) of passing tourists.<\/p>\n

There’s no doubt that this fire breathing tuba player managed\u00a0to create a suitable stir, and hopefully his imaginative efforts were suitably rewarded by passers-by.<\/p>\n

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There wasn’t a great deal to his act – he basically played along in time to an old fashioned track, with bursts of flame accompanying each parp. And that was about it.<\/p>\n

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The bursts of flame were impressive and rather mesmerising to watch.<\/p>\n

See below for two more photos of his wonderfully eccentric act, which was a great example of the kind of street performance\u00a0that has been seen on the streets of London for decades\u00a0– see:\u00a0London placard carriers and ‘sandwich men’, 1820 -1840<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also: Lone fire eater, South Bank, London<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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