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Extreme decibels from Street Performer at TGT

Good street performance can add colour and vibrancy to local neighbourhoods and help people support themselves. But the lady who is singing boosted by a huge set of speakers is drowning out conversation, affecting residential areas nearby and some of the local shops. Hammersmith has already taken firm action against this type of entertainment. Is it time Hounslow followed suit?

Jackie Elton ● 289d23 Comments

Have you heard Kings and Queens?It showcases their talents wonderfully .

N V Brooks ● 288d

Have you heard Kings and Queens?It showcases their talents wonderfully .

N V Brooks ● 288d

Some great recommendations on this thread. Many thanks.I agree Nigel that Lestyn Davies is special ... I'm particularly fond of his pairing with Alison BALSON the trumpeter.Maybe that patch on TGT will evolve as Chiswick's answer to Speakers Corner!with musical interuptions of course!

Jim Lawes ● 288d

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Alastair Banton ● 288d

At least she wasn’t blocking the psychopath…..imagine …. The inhumanity ?

Madeleine Hazard ● 288d

As to jackie Elton's post I agree it is way way to loud. If your sitting on the benches relaxing or sitting over the road with a coffee your not want those decibelles. The guy who sat with a guitar playing  Flamenco / Merengue is ok in volume and in my opinion easy listening and relaxing adding to the athmosphere where the singing women who after about 5 mins is a pain and needs to move on

Julian Pavey ● 288d

I believe that I have now acquired almost all of David's recordings on vinyl and/or CD.  Despite growing up with rock and soul there is something about his works that transcends musical genres. I shall be forever grateful to my darling wife for introducing me to his music.It is to music's eternal loss that his grieving widow, Jill, destroyed every one of his Pied Piper tapes and much of his music library.

N V Brooks ● 288d

Ah, David Munrow, what a tragic loss! I listened regularly to his Pied Piper programme on Radio 3, even though I was well past the age range of his target audience. His enthusiasm for early music was utterly infectious.

Robert Fish ● 288d

So sad when James died, he was a lovely man and along with David Munrow was a stalwart of the Hinckley Music Club where my wife grew up. His counter-tenor voice 'soared' that's for sure.

N V Brooks ● 288d

Hi Jim!Another fine countertenor is Daniel Taylor from Canada.One of my favourite CDs is "Lie Down Poor Heart" which he recorded with Sylvain Bergeron, the Quebec born Lutenist.You can hear it all on Youtube now but here is an excerpt.Sending you my best,Marlene

Marlene Plimley ● 288d

I agree about Iestyn Davies - a wonderful countertenor. James Bowman, sadly no longer with us, was also very fine, if perhaps a little hooty at times. It's amazing how many first-rate countertenors there are these days. For over twenty years Alfred Deller was the only English countertenor soloist until Bowman and Paul Esswood appeared in the late 60s. Apart from his pioneering this falsetto style of singing, Deller also made a great contribution to the revival of interest in Elizabethan lute songs. Jim, you might like to look for a recording of him singing Thomas Morley's setting of 'It was a lover and his lass'.

Robert Fish ● 289d

Jim, please listen to James Bowman and Iestyn Davies. Superb vocal instruments.  Andreas does have a wonderful purity to his voice.

N V Brooks ● 289d

It's only in recent times Robert,that I have begun to appreciate thesound of male countertenors ...Andreas Scholl / Stabat Mater and so on.Can you Handel that? :)

Jim Lawes ● 289d

I too though it was too loud, especially in nearby residential streets. The quality of the singing is surely irrelevant.

Philip Hodgson ● 289d

Yes, Jim. I didn't see the singer, but the voice sounded like that of a male soprano. With apologies to the lady!

Robert Fish ● 289d

Both of the counter-tenors I know are very happily married :-)

N V Brooks ● 289d

Is there a homophone in there somewhere?

Denis Ian Fox ● 289d

There's laws against counter tenorism these days.

Mark Frost ● 289d

A young girl was singing there this lunchtime with her guitar and microphone.Not too loud and it looked a good sight.I was interested to hear that yesterday's lady singer might have been a counter-tenor. I had thought that male voices only had that talent.

Jim Lawes ● 289d

She was indeed a fabulous singer but even as a confirmed rocker I must admit that she was too loud. Perhaps she would have earned more money if people could actually approach her to give her tips without having their heads blown off?

Chris Blackwell ● 289d

I hope she isn't eating in the street as well. The inhumanity.

Paul Campbell ● 289d

I heard but didn't see. I thought 'she' was a countertenor! Not a bad one, either.

Robert Fish ● 289d

Although I was struck by how loud the speakers were I thought she was a very good singer. That close to the rail bridge conversation is difficult at the best of times so you can understand why she has turned the volume up.

Mark Evans ● 289d