Bellevue suxx0rs
Jul. 27th, 2008 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdAs I kinda suspected might be the case, Bellevue fairs want no sign of buskers. (At least, these don't.) I found the info table at the individual subfair I was most interested in playing and they weren't just GTFO NOW and all that, they looked kinda cranky at me for even showing up to ask, and were generally full of GIR! and mostly looked relieved when I went away. Note to fair runners and info table booth managers: if someone shows up and asks you if it's okay and where they should be, they're probably not the ones who are going to cause problems and fuck up your venue.
So I stood on a sidewalk for a while between two of the outdoor venues far enough away from the official performers not to interfere with them (or vice versa) and played for a while. That wasn't great, but did play for a while until yet an other official venue started up too close to me, closing off the last quiet (ish) area in the general fair area. So then I started looking for another place to play, and this creepy homeless(?) guy who had been hanging out watching me play (and dancing weirdly and talking not very coherently except for asking where I lived, which I obviously did not tell) started following me around, until I got in a very crowded area and told him kinda loudly and obviously to stop following me around, at which point he did, but I was still kinda creeped out, so I said fukkit and came home.
It's kinda too bad; even when the windy location and poor money - it's between two things people would walk to, so people were, you know, walking to those things, not hanging around), it was kind of interesting to play because I was between a couple of buildings in a narrow street and so got some neat resonances going on the flutes. I'd have probably stayed for another set just for that.
FWIW, flute and mandolin did about equally well, or badly, in terms of audience reaction (good) and money (not very good at all really).
So I stood on a sidewalk for a while between two of the outdoor venues far enough away from the official performers not to interfere with them (or vice versa) and played for a while. That wasn't great, but did play for a while until yet an other official venue started up too close to me, closing off the last quiet (ish) area in the general fair area. So then I started looking for another place to play, and this creepy homeless(?) guy who had been hanging out watching me play (and dancing weirdly and talking not very coherently except for asking where I lived, which I obviously did not tell) started following me around, until I got in a very crowded area and told him kinda loudly and obviously to stop following me around, at which point he did, but I was still kinda creeped out, so I said fukkit and came home.
It's kinda too bad; even when the windy location and poor money - it's between two things people would walk to, so people were, you know, walking to those things, not hanging around), it was kind of interesting to play because I was between a couple of buildings in a narrow street and so got some neat resonances going on the flutes. I'd have probably stayed for another set just for that.
FWIW, flute and mandolin did about equally well, or badly, in terms of audience reaction (good) and money (not very good at all really).
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Date: 2008-07-28 03:24 am (UTC)better luck at Juanita, ne?