June 20, 2009: Busker's Bike

[xoxoxoBruce]

Treehugger tells of Australian, newly arrived in Britain, solving his problem of making a living.

A new arrival from Australia, Osborne said he had "no car, no drums, and a need to create beats." He was sitting in a park looking at his bike and "dreaming of ways to build my environmental friend." Not wanting to carry his drums on the subway, he decided to turn his bike frame into a drum kit which would double as a carrying case for his instruments. He made it out of bowls found in a charity shop, children's toys and old drums. The whole kit and kaboodle can be fitted into two carry-bags and a back pack.

He started busking in the edgy east end of London. His first time out he made enough in an hour to cover a week's rent. Then somehow word spread and next thing he knew, he was playing at the chi-chi Milan Furniture fair.

Sure beats commuting for hours, half asleep, or wound up tight from sitting at an IT desk, under-appreciated, surrounded by idiots and taking abuse from all sides.