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For years, busking on the tube was illegal, because unsupervised performers posed safety problems. But surveys have shown that 80% of customers wanted to hear good music as they traveled on the underground network. This lead to what we now know as the tube busking scheme.
Summer 2003 was no easy feat for the people working on the tube, making sure day to day workings of the underground ran as smoothly as possible. From strikes to repairs, to world records, join us as we get to know the unsung heroes of the Tube.
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@katiejenkinson9521 4 года назад

21:10 “this isn’t someone playing the didgeridoo, this is someone PLAYING the didgeridoo!”

@Hammertime054 4 года назад

Katie Jenkinson pure class 👍

@mynamehappy 3 года назад

UK: "Busking is a safety risk" NYC: "Fight the rats for a good spot"

@chilli-iceolive-abode2447 4 года назад

12:16 _We knew there was a very clever man down there with a didgeridoo_ 😂 And then she said I wonder how a man from Portsmouth got into playing the didgeridoo. *With his mums hoover tube, but he didn't tell you that did he love!* 😂

@scottchristie6734 2 года назад

This scheme is still in use to this day. As of 2021.

@declan5073 2 года назад

Thank you, was looking for a comment like this

@ingridakerblom7577 3 месяца назад

It's a great idea!

@broadway254 5 лет назад

Dude, that harmonica, man.

@chrislaing7153 4 года назад

Shame they didn't follow up on Errol Linton - a very talented harmonica player. Regularly features on BBC Radio 2's Blues show. If you like that sort of stuff have a search on RU-vid for him

@MisatoBestWoman Год назад

I will

@jasminejohnston6393 5 лет назад

I always tip buskers. They’re desperate for money and worked hard to get the permit they needed to even start busking!

@sosteam2797 4 года назад

Jasmine Johnston only the good ones!

@BossySwan 4 года назад

Only the ones that aren’t dross

@Mr_Makina 4 года назад

Nah, get a fucking job, if someone like me who's a dignosed schizophrenic and 55% burned can work a normal life, so can they.

@samwillee4197 3 года назад

@@Mr_Makina Not always desperate, often just an enjoyable way to make a bit more cash :)

@saltmerchant749 3 года назад

@@Mr_Makina That is their job. Arts is a career fam.

@JonsVlogz 4 года назад

21:10 Smashing! It’s Nigel Thorneberry!

@googleuser3163 3 года назад

Haha! Splendiferous

@randomchannel5386 5 лет назад

16:28 the iMac G3 lol shows how old this show is

@joegreenwood6551 5 лет назад

@@wesleyweih112 ohhh no, 2003!

@Mnrr6131 3 года назад

Yeah it’s old. Throwback for young tech nerds

@mikecartlidge5355 2 года назад

I can remember a few years back being on a train bound for Heathrow Airport. The train made a station stop and either three or four guys jumped aboard the train and started playing jazz music, they were brilliant. They played till the next station stop and got off, I guess that was to avoid officials.

@wilfstor3078 9 месяцев назад

Had a similar experience in Toronto last year, guy got on the train at St Clair with a speaker and an accordion, and played lively music all the way to Bloor, when he finished his performance, everyone on the train clapped, I tipped him the equivalent of 4 quid

@DavisBenjaminA 5 лет назад

5:45 wasn’t that harmonica piece in railroad tycoon 3?

@09gdt 5 лет назад

hahaha damn close to it i think

@MazeFrame 4 года назад

Could be Dixieland Train or Harp How-Down

@BossySwan 4 года назад

Lol

@EddiesTech 5 лет назад

I don't understand! They blur the CarlingLIVE logo half the time and the other we can see it clearly! Do they want to blur it or not?!

@adamlacey81 5 лет назад

Alright, calm down the world's still turning.

@theyoutubeguy1 5 лет назад

They company only paid them half the money

@EddieHart 4 года назад

The programme will have been made to be broadcast to TV, on CRT screens with a relatively low resolution. Likely the wider shots the logo wasn’t legible on those screens back in the day but they were in the closer shots so they blurred it then. Now it’s been digitised and we use higher resolution screens, it’s really visible to us.

@farhanwakil3800 5 лет назад

Where's bob Marley impersonator. I would give him a license

@stefanocoppo3949 4 года назад

i would not ;)

@MazeFrame 4 года назад

If I understood his name right (Errol Linton), then he is doing allright, search for "Errol Linton Boom Boom" for example.

@meckcervellone 4 года назад

@@MazeFrame that's not the bob marley impersonator

@joebcfcable 4 года назад

That black conductor has shot him in a field

@The009975 4 года назад

I’m a year late but, 5:27 ;)

@dave1001 3 года назад

That didgeridoo guy is great as its real difficult to learn to play it

@blight4959 10 месяцев назад

I love how in a lot of the Canary Wharf scenes you can just hear the 96 stock in the background

@Turbulencemode Месяц назад

That motor sound never gets old

@DeconvertedMan 5 лет назад

choo choo I love this show. :D

@borderreiver3288 5 лет назад

have heard some amazing buskers on the tube...

@aranstuart566 3 года назад

great to see people without phones constantly in their hands, good times

@they-call-me-mister-trash847 2 года назад

Ok boomer.

@5-Consecutive-Hairpin-Turns 2 года назад

Nobody talked to anybody else anyway. The only difference is people aren't so bored because they have phones

@capitalgoose97 5 лет назад

21:05 😂😂😂

@shirohilight1502 5 лет назад

lol legend

@beauemmerson5809 5 лет назад

i yhink i only saw ONE train out of the full episode at that was here ---> 0:50

@prime6134 4 года назад

beau emmerson u did here train NOISES didn’t u

@Sam-pn2kc 3 года назад

Its a fake underground man did you not know that?

@Dovietail 3 года назад

Freakung LOVE serious buskers!

@maxwellwynne-shepherd7852 3 года назад

I love music! I play the Violin, Piano, Guitar and now learning Ukulele in school.

@sebastiansanchez2776 2 года назад

@adammoorby99 4 года назад

21:18 he looks about as docile as Boris Johnson

@scottishpatriot5908 4 года назад

Adam Games I was thinking the exact same lol

@jduff59 3 года назад

This is how I want to spend my days after I retire.

@shooshoodemoo2610 4 года назад

!It never works well sometimes it works, most of the time it works" Have a word love!

@pumpnix7243 Год назад

The bloke on the didgeridoo played very well!

@Manoj17Patankar 5 лет назад

oh how wonderful! I hope I get to spend some time in London and take the tube for commute..

@bettyboop9897 4 года назад

Manoj Patankar this is like wishing death upon yourself

@pipeqez911 2 года назад

The underground is a pretty depressing place, after literally a day or two you will start to hate it, the heat, the crowds, and these buskers are not so common.

@darkmann12 5 лет назад

COMIC SANS!!!

@danielbtdm 5 лет назад

Generally thought the last episode was the last!

@nathanblake9786 5 лет назад

there's another season i think

@Lastof_ 5 лет назад

From the Wikipedia page, looks like this was a special that originally aired just after season 1. Looks like season 3 aired in late 2005, with another 6 episodes, plus another pair of special episodes that aired just before season 3 about the 7/7 bombings.

@TCWordz 5 лет назад

The Wikipedia page also states that this episode was originally broadcast in February 2003 but the episode itself (claims to be) set in "Summer 2003".

@d.martin7692 3 года назад

Is it still "busking" if you have to jump through official hoops?

@Khaledamrouche11710 Год назад

Cool

@jasminejohnston6393 4 года назад

Popular busking place in Vancouver: Waterfront SeaBus terminal

@skatesneakerlover 3 года назад

This is DEFINITELY different in SO many ways to the buskers I've seen in the past - dirty, disheveled, with flea and lice infested hair, barefoot with filthy dirty feet and overgrown hooks for toenails, 20 year old muck and nasal mucous under their fingernails and then they fix their eyes on you and your every movement and glare right through you as if you are possessed.

@theamericane2655 4 года назад

This week on Busking With The Stars.

@hkinfluenster8713 Год назад

He was really mean towards the violin player.

@Petra44YT 2 года назад

I like the digeridoo. :-)

@RangaNayanajithSilva 3 года назад

Happiness is the prime wealth. සන්තුට්ටී පරමං දනං

@MisatoBestWoman Год назад

The British currency is interesting

@davidpaterson8056 5 лет назад

John is 45!?!?!?!?!? Tough paper round.

@sinkliner3836 4 года назад

My brudda looks about 75 😭😭

@googleuser3163 3 года назад

Dude must smoke felt-tip pens to be looking like that at 45, christ...

@fewgrain4245 5 лет назад

Summer 03??

@OxfordCitaro 5 лет назад

Yes, the programme ran between 2002-06.

@Sam-pn2kc 3 года назад

Good people

@danahsutton101 2 года назад

Win win

@davidphilpott6606 5 лет назад

most entertaining!

@broadsword0072 4 года назад

OurTube on RU-vid.

@ingridakerblom7577 3 месяца назад

The single flutes & esp violones are just annoying in the long run.. But the didgeridoo guy Steven is great! How are those native american flute players everywhere either in groups or alone? They were at least all over europe at one point..

@poochi1877 3 года назад

This show is so old now.

@pedrojuglar 5 лет назад

The next thing you know, they'll all have cash registers and they'll be handing you receipts. :)

@borderreiver3288 5 лет назад

sarcasm is the lowest form of wit

@jamesdavison1786 5 лет назад

Border Reiver is it really?

@gemma-louiseridge2331 4 года назад

Border Reiver Oscar Wilde 🤗

@samwillee4197 3 года назад

And the busking scene will survive through a cashless society. :)

@Psevdonim123 3 года назад

After that, they start to accept contactless...

@djmpvae27091978 Год назад

Classical, rock, metal, doom metal, black metal, death metal, atmospheric metal, symphonic metal, doom metal, gothic metal, gothic rock........

@shaunpierce4174 5 лет назад

45 years old??? And the rest.

@ameia9335 4 года назад

Haha

@BM13590 3 года назад

I feel bad for that guy with the recorder that people didn't leave money for him :(

@jenlfpotter3870 Год назад

I'm not very surprised. He'd've given them all a splitting headache.

@DeconvertedMan 5 лет назад

Neat.

@Khaledamrouche11710 Год назад

0:45

@Khaledamrouche11710 Год назад

3:50

@tender1294 3 года назад

Did I hear the minutemen radio

@TaurusSpace 3 года назад

There are beggars and buskers operating aboard this train please do not encourage there presence by supporting them (I swear I heard this somewhere)

@Vaper.22 4 года назад

1:46 bring Simon Cowell instead

@chilli-iceolive-abode2447 4 года назад

I wonder who they have to sleep with to get the best pitches. I know in my town many a fight happens between people begging and busking and trying to lay claim to pitches.

@edwardholmes91 2 года назад

Once they have a license, they book a 2 hour slot at a specified spot on a specified station.

@tomwaldron5643 4 года назад

15.06 thats not £8. my guy had the coppers.

@chilli-iceolive-abode2447 4 года назад

Well normally you pocket the 50ps, £1 and £2 coins and only leave the shrapnel out so people feel inclined to give you more. Not always, but I know some people play it that way.

@TerryTheNewsGirl 5 месяцев назад

So, begging is illegal on the tube, but legalised begging (Technically what busking is), is okay)? No, begging is begging. I won't give to any beggers, buskers included.

@googleuser3163 5 месяцев назад

Busking isn't begging. They're providing free music to the public and accept tips but don't solicit. Shame you have such a nasty outlook on a very honest way to make a bit of money.

@maxwellwynne-shepherd7852 3 года назад

What “they say” may not be true lolz

@RobMcGinley81 5 лет назад

I give that episode two 👍 👇

@canadajointops 4 года назад

Why?

@rutabuga 4 года назад

your dinner is in the dog? when was this a saying?

@broadsword0072 4 года назад

When the husband came home late from work, she thought he was maybe shagging someone, so out of anger gave his dinner to the dog. Went out and left a note on the fridge ' your dinners in the dog'

@JustinRichards 4 года назад

The London underground has always been the unofficial home for those not talented enough for x-factor

@googleuser3163 3 года назад

I'd rather listen to the recorder lad all day int tube than watch X-Factor, can't lie...

@reidgibbs 5 лет назад

7th

@prime6134 4 года назад

7:57 did that narrator say the b word?

@Boypogikami132 4 года назад

It sounds like ‘bitches’ but he is supposed to say ‘pitches’

@prime6134 4 года назад

@pridenprejudice2004 4 года назад

Loved the opera singer. Can't stand the recorder.

@giuseppenero110 4 года назад

I don't even consider the recorder a musical instrument.

@Quibbla 4 года назад

@@giuseppenero110 Sorry bud, its an instrument. And a bloody good one.

@tapup708 4 года назад

3:04 that's clearly a green screen

@battytec 4 года назад

They blurred out the background behind him because it had logos on

@tapup708 4 года назад

@@battytec Lmao you can see the logo like 3 seconds before during the interview in the back clear as day

@tezdiz9133 3 года назад

Kick um out

@jamesdawes2845 3 года назад

I can tell you the didgeridoo is not the fairest instrument. The fact that non-aboriginals and women cannot play the instrument in nomadic aboriginal traditions goes to show that no one race is perfect. Just my two cents, and something to think about.

@hunterhoegemeyer67 5 лет назад

5th

@jorgedefreitas1 5 лет назад

the most boring episode ever zzzZZZzzzZZZ

@Erik-ou3tl 5 лет назад

you have no music in your soul, sir.

@reidgibbs 5 лет назад

@Erik Ensing LOL! 😝

@andmos1001 5 лет назад

Its boring yes, but it is what the tube is sometimes

@jorgedefreitas1 5 лет назад

@@knownothing5518 might be, a love dramas 💁‍♂️

@paulanderson79 5 лет назад

it didn't grab me personally but no one is forcing you to watch it.

@taraelizabethdensley9475 3 года назад

I zoom past buskers as quick as possible as the music echo hurts my ears

@rogerbixley791 5 лет назад

maybe the ladies should open their blouse just a little bit more….like the lady singer angelina….that will attract the guys more than the music….and as everybody knows…..sex sells

@jamesdavison1786 5 лет назад

roger bixley you weirdo