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?

It's prety damn hard to read a 20 acre room...

Some bloody awful ones in our town. The main street is pedestrianised with lots of cafes with tables outside. These buskers set up there with their amps and start caterwauling, spoiling peoples coffee and conversation. I always secretly hope some passing chancer will snatch their amp and run off with it 😅😅😅

Hard agree. One set up near us at a beach yesterday - a town beach, so a busy area, but I don't want to hear music at the beach. Of course we could have moved, but we had everything set up and were in a spot that suited us.

She had a tripod and was singing to her phone, so I assume was doing a live on Tiktok? It was a bit weird she was performing to her phone rather than the people around her...

Reminds me of the time we visited Ronda, southern Spain. Early evening we were on the ‘balcony’ viewing spot near the old bullring.

Sun setting on the valley stretched out in front of us, warm evening, stunning.

Apart from the busker with his accordion playing merry jolly tunes ( think Birdie Song )

Equally, if kids start running around and screaming while you are in the park trying to get some peace, you can tell them to shut the fuck up before you call the police
Jeez

Hardly a park then is it? Hardly a garden by the sound of it, so will be noisy with kids and dogs and buskers

And of course, everyone else is delighted to be subjected to your inane one-sided conversation while you are walking in public.
Double standards rule in your mind

The natural sound of children playing or adults chatting is very different to someone who is arrogantly taking over a peaceful park or outside a cafe venue where people have gone for some very much needed calm and relaxation.

Loud, especially amplified singing and playing, cuts into the ability to switch off and think your thoughts. It makes it all about the dominance and desires of one person - the busker, and in my opinion is all about the individual rather than best for the most people.

Hope you can either get Council to make park peaceful spot or find somewhere else another time OP.

You're embarrassing yourself, do you not check before posting? Yoh? Ate?

Or maybe you do eat stupid.

And..

It's metre.

And it's embarrassed.

Duh!

I've been waiting for a thread like this, so I know it's not just me being a miserable bitch! Absolutely not BU OP, agree with previous poster that buskers should never be where anyone might be stationary.

We live in a small touristy city and buskers always pitch up in this beautiful squar, where lots of people sit outside of pubs and restaurants to eat. I'd say a solid 90% of the time, they're singing the most miserable, sad songs, and it totally kills the vibe even if you're just walking past! And all use professional equipment so you can hear it ages away. My husband says I'm being mean, these people are talented and are just looking for a chance. I disagree that this means the misery should be inflicted on us all.

My poor unborn baby probably recognises 'someone like you' now 😂

We are a crowded country, we don't need even more artificial noise and interference.

At least the noises that children and people make are natural. I can't stand the big amps that these buskers use.

Park yourself up next to busker and wail along loudly and out of tune. They'll be offski in minutes.

Bette Midler songs are bad enough sung by Bette Midler, never mind someone's bad cover versions.

YANBU. We have a woman who wails so loudly in our town centre it's hard to escape the noise. She belts out classic wail'y songs like Celine Dion stuff. It's awful and way too loud.

Natural or not, volume and duration count.

I really wish they'd get rid of the bloody amps at least, even in central London it's too bloody much.

It sounds like a comedy sketch. Did she only do Bette Middler?

I've experienced similar, but with families bringing a speaker and blasting out loud music. So annoying when you want some peace and enjoy the park and there's pounding dance songs on full volume.

"Or maybe you do eat stupid."

Cracking up 😆

No

Irritating, but I admit I'd much rather a busker than the people who yell at me to accept Jesus, or get in my face rattling collecting tins and wristbands and crappy books of crappy poetry that they're selling for some charity or another.

It's like my inconsiderate bastard neighbours.
As soon as it's nice and sunny, they put the speakers on, throw the back doors open and everyone in their gardens has to listen to some Albanian gypsy muzak trash. Yesterday they had a birthday party for a 5 year old and that meant the trash muzak on from 10am all the way through to the midnight, with drunk adults whistling, ooooping and shouting over the music.
One of the very rare sunny days to enjoy but they went and ruined it for everyone else.

Without the bastards, there's peace, quiet and birdsong.

My "inane one-sided conversation" is at a very normal volume, no different to talking to someone walking next to me. It's not being blasted out by a speaker trying to drown out the sound of another busker further up the street.
It's hardly double standards when they are very different things.

See I don't understand this.. I would have hist shouted 'Hey, love! I get one childfree afternoon and was enjoying the quiet! Can you fuck off somewhere else! Please!'.

If I was feeling polite.
They're probably not going to want to stay there knowing you aren't enjoying it.