{"id":15448,"date":"2014-09-28T14:40:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T13:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=15448"},"modified":"2014-09-28T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T13:41:09","slug":"londons-worst-street-performers-do-their-stuff-in-trafalgar-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/londons-worst-street-performers-do-their-stuff-in-trafalgar-square\/","title":{"rendered":"London’s worst street performers do their stuff in Trafalgar Square"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The tourist heaving environs of Trafalgar Square often provide rich pickings for buskers and street performers – but generally some kind effort is required to catch the eye of passers by.<\/p>\n

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Singularly failing to attract the loose change of passing traffic was this gentleman, whose ‘act’ involved him\u00a0unenthusiastically making \u00a0strange noises through a traffic cone. \u00a0You can see his bowl is untroubled by\u00a0any kind of financial reward for his efforts.<\/p>\n

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Close to him was an equally unimpressive man dressed\u00a0in a rubbish\u00a0gorilla costume who seemed to think that sitting on the floor and just waving a banana around be enough to attract the sound of clinkering change. It wasn’t, sadly.<\/p>\n

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Mind you, I think I preferred those two to the lines of ‘levitating’ people that now hover around Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n

I counted eight\u00a0of them, and for most the entire ‘act’ involved sitting on a hidden steel frame which gives the impression that they are floating above the ground. And that’s it.<\/p>\n

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Once you’ve worked out how it’s done – and it is rather clever – there’s not much to be gleaned from seeing the same thing repeated every 20 yards or so.<\/p>\n