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'Part Time Lover' plushy trumpeter at Bond St station

 
 
Ganesh
14:41 / 22.07.02
I'd be grateful if one or more London Barbeloids could reassure me that I'm not alone in being bemused by the buskers who're a constant presence at the foot of the escalator in Bond St Tube station. There's sometimes one, more often two; one has a trumpet, one a tambourine. They're playing along to a backing track of 'Part Time Lover'. Always 'Part Time Lover'.

And they're always dressed in moth-eaten Sylvester (or 'Sylvester & Tweetie Pie' fame) pussy-cat costumes, complete with whole-head masks.

They are there, aren't they?
 
 
Loomis
14:49 / 22.07.02
I think you're looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses there Ganesh. I don't recall ever seeing that, but once or twice a week lately I've seen a guy at the foot of the escalators using a big orange traffic cone as a trumpet. He's not that bad either. I don't know what you're imbibing to turn him into an animated feline jazz combo, but pass the pipe this way ...
 
 
Ganesh
14:52 / 22.07.02
Oh, I've seen him too. The mock-feline trumpeter's there today, though...
 
 
Bill Posters
14:52 / 22.07.02
Weeeel, far be it from me to say that they are there - that would be to enter a philosophical minefield. But I too have seen these critters. For what that's worth.
 
 
Loomis
14:54 / 22.07.02
Ah! I look forward to the experience. Shall I pass on your regards?
 
 
Bill Posters
15:37 / 22.07.02
Absolutely!
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:41 / 22.07.02
I've seen them. Through Ganesh's eyes.

My eyes.