"underground" music

through a drab, touristy day in London, this guy provided an uplifting highlight!



imagine if:

you didn't get a guaranteed salary every month

you didn't have enough money to have a bank account

you had to perform all day in a dark corner of a london tube station to earn a sandwich at the end of the day

and if this is what we call the "developed world", imagine the millions back home in India and everything they need to do.

through last week, there's been a major uproar in the UK about children "as young as 10" working on clothes sold by Primark and how this was "exploitation" and how they should be at school instead.

who's going to pay for their education?
who's going to pay to feed them every day?
who's going to provide the shelter in the summer, monsoon and winter (well, all through the year, actually!) etc.

after all this bleak stuff, why was this guitar guy a highlight? because he had a smile on his face, he enjoyed what he was doing, and he hailed me with a "cheers, mate!" when i was done filming him and dropped a few pence into his box...

cheers!