Grafton Street's got talent

Took a stroll up Grafton street and the amount of talent there would put any ITV/TV3 bollox to shame. And no, I’m not talking about the ladies. At BT there was the string quartet and the guy that plays the dulcimer, further up, a group of kids playing trad, the Romanian accordion/trumpet Polka combo and the guy that dances with the shop dummy, all excellent and talented people but the further up Grafton St you go, alas sadly, the talent dimishes.

There’s any amount of students who’ll stand there and play their one or two good songs on the guitar over and over again (I was that soldier once), then we have the lowest form of entertainment on the planet, the mime.

Fuckers who don’t even bother to do anything to entertain you, they just stand there, on a box, and when you give them money they do a half arsed ‘80s Robotica dance for a couple of seconds and then stop. Four years in uni and a degree in performing arts and this is the best you can come up with? And the tourists go mad for them!!

Then it hit me!! Why the fuck haven’t the Simon community latched on to this. Instead of passing out sandwiches and blankets, hand out sparkly costumes and bucket loads of face paints, clean up the image of the optionally residential, put them on boxes and give them a career doing what they do best, tapping money!!