To think buskers should read the room

[Rolson77]

Set up my picnic blanket in lovely local park. Brought my book. Rare couple of hours without my 5yo. Bliss. Until the fucking busker turns up. Average singer blasting out Bette Midler songs ridiculously loud to a cheap sounding piano backing track. A few moans. It's fucking annoying. Totally understand in places where people walk by but not in a park. She's now singing the first time ever I saw your face and I want to poke needles in my eyes!!

AIBU?

Give them £10 for 15 minutes silence

Go and sit somewhere else?

Normally you need a permit to busk, I know it’s different everywhere but I’d be surprised if the council let her do it in the park.

There is nowhere else in walking distance.

YANBU. I don't think buskers should be somewhere where people can't escape.

Tell her to fk off and take her shit with her before you ring the police and report her.. peaceful park ruined with shit karaoke! I feel your pain...

This. Shouldn't be there.

If she takes requests ask her to sing "over the hill and far away"
Hopefully she'll get the point!

Tell her to go away

Oh cmon, yoh think we ate stupid? Your park is a meter square, embarassed for you

My local park is a rectangle, containing a rectangle of grass and a children's playground. If a busker were playing at one end of the grass you'd absolutely hear them from the other end. It's not Hyde Park, there is nowhere else in my park you could go and escape the busker.

I'm my local town park you'd hear a busker wherever they were, same where my parents and brother live, OK they areny a metre square but they aren't Central Park either

Same thing happened a few weeks ago on a night out with friends, lovely evening catching up then a singer set up in the pub and that was the end of conversation, very annoying

Er, noise carries.

I’m embarrassed for someone.

Just not the OP.

Oh cmon, yoh think we ate stupid? Your park is a meter square, embarassed for you

@Sillyjane having a hard day? (Or are you perhaps the busker in question?)

@Sillyjane I'd surely the Busker 😂 we have a large and small park in town and in the smaller one you defo wouldn't be able to escape a busker

I’d put buskers into Room 101 if I was a guest on the show. I fucking hate them. When I walk past one, I’m thinking “I didn’t ask you to inflict your noise on me you egotistical show off. I’m trying to remember what I need in Boots, and I can’t think straight with you screeching Wonderwall in my ear. I know your mum and your gran told you you were amazing when you put on little shows as a kid. But they should have told you that the rest of the world doesn’t feel the same. Now shut up.”

Really ruined my chilled afternoon. I love sitting in the park and reading my book. Especially when it's so warm. I don't understand why people think it's OK to inflict their music choices on people who don't ask for it. If I want a gig I'll pay to go to one. The ego you have to have to set up in a park.

And yes it's a small park. You could hear it from the other side as she had a speaker.

I'd ban them from using amplifiers. Acoustic instruments only.

How exactly was she stopping the OP from leaving?

You're in a public space , so is she . So what .

I actually like buskers, but this one does sound very annoying. I always think, if you’re going to have a backing track (rather than playing an instrument or just vocals), you’d better be REALLY good and sing something people actually want to hear!

I hate buskers!
They're up and down my high street and so loud! Literally can't walk and talk on the phone down the high street!

Every town should have a designated space for buskers, so that people who wanted to hear them could actually seek them out. Though I doubt that anyone ever would.

yes, but one of them is producing noise pollution and the other isn't.