{"id":17229,"date":"2016-07-22T14:15:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T13:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=17229"},"modified":"2016-07-22T14:20:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T13:20:03","slug":"the-fire-breathing-tuba-of-tottenham-court-road-unique-london-busker-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-fire-breathing-tuba-of-tottenham-court-road-unique-london-busker-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fire Breathing Tuba of Tottenham Court Road &#8211; unique London busker in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/fire-breathing-tuba-london-01.jpg\" alt=\"The Fire Breathing Tuba of Tottenham Court Road - London busker, July 2016\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve been methodically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/?s=busker\" target=\"_blank\">documenting the assortment of buskers seen on the streets of Brixton<\/a> in south London, but this fella with a fire-breathing tuba surely trumps the lot.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/fire-breathing-tuba-london-02.jpg\" alt=\"The Fire Breathing Tuba of Tottenham Court Road - London busker, July 2016\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spotted just off Tottenham Court Road in central London, the top hatted musician parps along to a vintage soundtrack while fire pumps out of the tuba&#8217;s horn &#8211; I first saw him in action on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-incredible-fire-breathing-tuba-on-londons-south-bank\/\" target=\"_blank\"> South Bank in 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although perhaps not quite as much fun as Cambridge&#8217;s legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/busker-in-a-bin-cambridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Busker in a Bin<\/a>, I enjoyed watching this fella and was happy to throw some coins into his hat.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some photos of him in action.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/fire-breathing-tuba-london-03.jpg\" alt=\"The Fire Breathing Tuba of Tottenham Court Road - London busker, July 2016\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/fire-breathing-tuba-london-04.jpg\" alt=\"The Fire Breathing Tuba of Tottenham Court Road - London busker, July 2016\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/fire-breathing-tuba-london-05.jpg\" alt=\"The Fire Breathing Tuba of Tottenham Court Road - London busker, July 2016\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/fire-breathing-tuba-london-06.jpg\" alt=\"The Fire Breathing Tuba of Tottenham Court Road - London busker, July 2016\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/fire-breathing-tuba-london-07.jpg\" alt=\"The Fire Breathing Tuba of Tottenham Court Road - London busker, July 2016\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brixtonbuzz.com\/?s=busker\" target=\"_blank\">Buskers of Brixton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve been methodically documenting the assortment of buskers seen on the streets of Brixton in south London, but this fella with a fire-breathing tuba surely trumps the lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17231,"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":[194,43,456,17,193],"tags":[477,971,10,1197,476,984],"class_list":["post-17229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-music","category-news","category-photos","category-places","tag-busker","tag-buskers","tag-london","tag-music","tag-tottenham-court-road","tag-tuba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/fire-breathing-tuba-london-01-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-4tT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17229","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=17229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17235,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17229\/revisions\/17235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}