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The city centre manager Andrew Cooper is planning to hold an open meeting with the buskers to discuss the situation with selling CDs. There have been complaints about this, which some people feel amounts to unlicensed trading.
Busking is on the verge of being licenced in Bath and a few of us are keen to work with officials to self regulate and delay the inevitable.
The date and place of the meeting are yet to be confirmed, but most likely be on a Saturday at the 10am buskers meeting. It is in your interests to be there.
You can read more information about this and a personal point of view by a busker here. |
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A Website for Musicians Who Busk in Bath |
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Welcome to the Bath Buskers Web Site
The name says it all: it's a web site by buskers for buskers about busking and street entertainment in Bath, with contributions from many of Bath's local buskers. Please note that this is not the official website of Bath buskers - such a thing would be a contradiction in our view. It is a website by some buskers in Bath.
If you busk in Bath (or elsewhere) and would like to contribute to the site you are very welcome - you can email the site at . We try to be inclusive, although if you would prefer to remain enigmatic, as some people do, then that's fine. However, even if you're not a busker - perhaps a local resident or maybe a visitor to our city - we hope that you will find plenty in these pages to inform and entertain.
You'll find these pages packed full of useful info about busking, and the answers that you always wanted to know to the questions you never dared to ask, such as: how do I get a pitch? Is busking legal? Do I need a license to busk in Bath? Should I give money to buskers? |
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The Bath Buskers Guide is an initiative (like this website) by a handful of local buskers who felt there was a need to remind everybody of the established busking protocol. It is based on the original Buskers Code of Practice (almost word for word). A key message in the leaflet is to encourage buskers to co-operate with each other to keep sound levels down (not just amplifiers) to a reasonable level and maintain a sense of harmony on the streets.
There is a map on the leaflet with all the busking pitches and the established booking system. The only change is that the Council has agreed to 'tolerate' amplification which is a major step forward but we must not abuse this freedom. A lot of effort has gone into creating the leaflet and getting onboard official support without their interference to make it regulation top-heavy so that the buskers both local and visiting can find it easy to read. Thanks to Andrew Cooper,Bath City Centre manager who arranged a meeting between a handful of buskers and the local authorities and also tightened up the design of the leaflet and financed the printing of it.
You can download the guide here.
Jez Broun
Gary Millhouse
Steve Robinson |
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Regular visitors may notice that the site has a new look. This is in response to the continued popularity of the site, and is designed to make it easier to navigate, as well as easier to get involved with.
If you register as a user of the site you can now create your own profile, with information about the type of act you perform (if you are a busker). You will also be able to post to our forum, and make connections with other members.
Membership is open to anyone who wishes to join, you don't need to be a busker or live in Bath. We would like to have members who are buskers who live in other parts of the UK as well as world-wide. |
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There is now a Bath buskers group on Flickr. Membership is open to anyone who wants to join, if you have any photos of buskers in Bath you can add them to the group pool.
You can see a slideshow here. |
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