Bailing out

[jester]

I love this thread. I haven't bailed yet but I've been tempted to many times. Martins peice is absolutey brilliant and yet again he has made me want to stand up and applaud by my computer.

[martin ewen]

Please...I don't take praise very well (it tends to make me extremely suspicious and I invariably lash out)
People that have never bailed are either mere puppets to proffessionalizm (and I'd like to point out that as a street performer it becomes a proffession only after anyone pays you, before that time you are as much a mental outpatient as the guy with the stained trousers scolding windblown shoppingbags.)
or simply lack the character to fail on their own terms.
(the little engine that could...."I know I'm crap I know I'm crap I know I'm crap.")
People that have never bailed are stateing baldly that in the public domain they have never been beaten.
Some even state as principle that they never will be.
So the authorities have never closed them down?
A passing parade/funeral has never halted their show?
They have never vomited over their audience before dry-retching and staggering away?
A meteor has never plunged into their planet mid-show, killing all the dinosours?
I respect stubbornness in most of its forms but cannot imagine the type of personality that for what-ever reason, can simply carry on regardless.
Some people just have far too much pride. It 's more humiliating in my opinion watching someone who's worldview cannot comprehend failure bulldozing through defensive structures than it is watching some brave naked soul lose everything but the echo of what was once their spirit of adventure. THATS entertainment!

[worldwidese]

Ok, let's approach it from a different angle. If "prime time" lasts till after Zippy's show, I would suggest you hold off with yours and grab his crowd as they walk away. Then you'll have a ready made crowd, added to the ones you've already collected for your "nucleus" and the whole thing should rock.

[Evan Young]

[quote]Originally posted by worldwidese:
<strong>Ok, let's approach it from a different angle. If "prime time" lasts till after Zippy's show, I would suggest you hold off with yours and grab his crowd as they walk away. Then you'll have a ready made crowd, added to the ones you've already collected for your "nucleus" and the whole thing should rock.</strong><hr></blockquote>

You don't know how things work here do you? You go when it's your turn or you forfit back to the end of the line (2hr line). Besides, Zippy wasn't the problem. Did you even read my post before you decided to respond? I wonder about you sometimes.

[Juggalicious]

if you wait in line then why did zippy go at the same time as you - why didnt he go either right before you or right after you?

[Evan Young]

There are factors that make exceptions to the rules. I could explain it all but it's irrelivent to the thread.
If there are enough people (audience) we do multiple shows at once (up to three on the block), but there are still lines and rules (etiquette).

[Evan Young]

yesterday some guy passed out from the heat/dehydration durring my show. He was in the front row and just droped into my circle, smacking the back of his head on the bricks. At first I thought he was a heckler trying to mess with me, but it was very real. Ended my show in a hurry [img]frown.gif[/img] . I felt bad for the guy as he got carted off by the paramedics.

[lukeburrage]

I "bailed out" of a show with probably the biggest street audience I'd ever had. I got right to the end of my act where I had put on a blindfold and was building up my juggling carving knives trick when a policeman walked up to me and told me I was blocking off the entire market square. I took off my blindfold and noticed that while I was blind my audience had somehow tripled in size.

The policeman was firm and wouldn't let me continue where I was, I had to go across the other side of the square... so I was thinking "Do I go and start again or just do my final trick?" I ran across the square, about 50 people followed, I did my finale and I made very little money. Hindsight s 20/20.

On a different note, once when I was very young I did a show at a pensioner's dinner party and one of the old ladies collapsed half way through my show and ended up in hospital. I never found out if she ever left the hospital.