Looks like we're going to be playing aboard this lovely ship that we pass by on our daily commute to busk at South Bank. It's just past London Bridge near the Globe Theatre and it's a replica of Francis Drake's Golden Hinde which circumnavigated the world from 1577-1580. Drake called her the Pelican but she was renamed The Golden Hinde after Drake's patron Sir Christopher Hatton's family crest. This particular replica of the Golden Hinde is berthed at St. Mary Overie Dock and once sailed around. It was used in the tv mini-series SHOGUN which made Bianka swoon since that series greatly influenced her child mind with romantic dangerous adventure lust about that particular era of history. The show will be as part of a regular monthly edition of the Tiller Flat Folk Club. It's on August 2nd just before we leave London. Wish us luck. South Bank has become our regular haunt since coming to London because it seems to be the only place with truly clear rules for performance and great crowds.
There seems a regular group of performers who brave South Bank's tourist population. Here's Gregory with two of his favorites
We also have been having new song writing and rehearsal in this park in front of the Tate Modern Museum which might seem a strange place but we saw another band of three doing the same thing later in the evening too. It's just too hot to be indoors and London homes being so close together make us practicing feel like we are in the neighbor's living room. Gregory also ended up playing for quite a bit of our tube ride home after some fun Irish fellows were pretty insistent that he should and they even polled all the other passengers to make sure it was ok with everyone. It was a good way to break up the sweaty trapped feeling one gets taking the tube from central London back home. He wasn't busking but a very nice man gave him 20 quid just for playing.
Our favorite set of buskers are these guys and that link is a video from them yesterday when we danced to them and watched them with glee that the crazy hot weather here had given us all a temporary reprieve.
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