Brighton Fringe

On my little jaunt down to Brighton in May 2011 I thought I would pop along to some of the back streets around the famous lanes of Brighton and near the Brighton Pavillion.
What with there being the Brighton Fringe festival on at the time.
To be honest I must admit that I was a little disappointed with it, I thought there would be more street artists, who I find are mostly brilliant and are extremely talented.
But in all fairness there were a few good artists around that I managed to see.
The first one was a French act called "2 Rien Merci", they performed in a tent and could only allow about 50 people to see the 40 minute show as it involved the three performers walking around a moving disc throughout the show. It was certainly surreal and I got involved in the act when one of the performers (who didn't speak - because they were French or because it's a part of their act? Who knows?!) decided to stare at me, pull faces and go "Urrhhh" at me, which I responded by doing the same back...well it made the rest of the spectators laugh.

Unfortunetly because of their act you couldn't take photos inside the tent, so I had to make do with what photos and a short video I could....



A little way away from 2 Rien Merci in New Street was a fella singing and playing a guitar, I thought I'd saunter over and have a listen.

The fella's name was Lewis Floyd Henry and he was a street guitarist, kind of like a one man band, not like the traditional type with cymbals on the knees, mouth organ and bass drum on the back. Lewis just had his guitar and a little dinky drum to keep the beat...and believe me that was all he needed, he was brilliant.

A mixture of Jimi Hendrix and Lenny Kravitz. If I had my way and if I had the clout to get somebody noticed then I would do all I could to make this fella a star.