This was my "wanting to run away to join the circus" moment.. and I kinda did...

Read chapter one of TEN GIGS at https://matricardo.substack.com/p/ten-gigs-chapter-one

#circus #busker #busking #streetperformers #streetperforming #whitby #festival #whitbyfolkweek #storytime #writer #substack

This month in my newsletter:

New writing about 50 years of street performing at Covent garden, and how a computer incorrectly predicted my future life when I was a kid, along with photography, videos and other stuff!

Hope you love it

#substack #writer #blogger #newsletter #streetperforming #jiigcal #essay

https://matricardo.substack.com/p/you-can-really-hear-the-distance

You can really hear the distance

I was listening to a podcast about short wave radio this week - because I'm just *that* scintillating - and they mentioned something that has stuck with me.

The Penny Gaff
Elias Rod In Copenhagen

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Is art allowed to break the law?

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NEW VIDEO - Is art allowed to break the law?

Pretty happy with how this one turned out

#art #graffiti #busking #streetperforming #Hacking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmnDPxmA_Tw

Is art allowed to break the law?

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Thanks so much to everyone who came to my show last Saturday night and helped make it such a fun, packed out room. Hope y'all had as good a time as I did.

Here's my little speech from the end of the show, where I got to say thank you to one of the people who got me where I am.

Salami brothers forever!

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My only brief interaction with the former President when I was street performing with my A-Cappella group!!
#Trump #DonaldTrump #StreetPerforming #ACappella
https://phildutra.com/blog/the-day-donald-trump-fired-me
The Day Donald Trump Fired Me!

Looking back at the day my A-Cappella group had an encounter with the our 45th President

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