One new trend is corporate tie-ins with street musicians and buskers like this one from AdAge…
Coca-Cola has signed up buskers to sing its familiar festive jingle “Holidays Are Coming” to a captive audience of the London Underground’s 3.5 million daily Tube riders.
In a deal with the London Underground, Coca-Cola will sponsor the licensed busking scheme in the run-up to Christmas. Singers and musicians at stations around the network will be given sheet music or CDs so that they can perform the official holiday song.
It will not be compulsory for the buskers to perform the song, but Coca-Cola is planning to provide incentives to the entertainers to sing “Holidays Are Coming” as often as possible. The song will also be heard on TV spots throughout the festive season.
Note: photo is of a random busker not, an officially licensed Coca-Cola busker.
Seems like a pretty sweet deal.
I have considered the idea of doing a little busking for extra dough but traffic out my way mostly consists of drunk house framers, drunk fishermen and senior citizens with poor eyesight all whizzing through the curves at 60 m.p.h.
Here is an article about the new trend in nightclubs; inviting patrons to show off their Guitar Hero and Rock Band skills as the the game’s sound is pumped through the house system and the graphics are displayed on big video screens.
It got me thinking and maybe somebody has already tried this; why not have karaoke for guitar players? I mean real guitars. Have a good sounding rig on stage, some tracks of familiar songs, with the solo spots left open, and players could take turns having a whack at their fave tunes. For that matter, you could do it with other instruments as well. Instrument karaoke.
Just a thought.
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