Is this man the best thing in Newcastle?

This Christmas there is only one thing worth looking at in town and it's not Fenwicks window although it is very close by. It is this man.



I know he looks like he hasn't washed in years but do not be put off by this. He is the best street performance in Newcastle if not the UK. He constantly steps his game up. Some people claimed he'd never get past the fame of being the drunken tramp who eats pennies off the floor but in the same way that he has upgraded from a 2 litre bottle of cider to 3 litres of Frosty Jacks, he's also managed to step his show up.

I witnessed today a collaboration of him dancing whilst a man played slap bass. He lit a tab and danced in a circle whilst still including the old classics of eating coins from the floor but this time it wasn't just pennies. He was eating silvers and at one point I think I saw a £2 coin.

Now this guy is obviously making money to be able to survive and get pissed through out winter. Fair enough he'll be dead by spring but at least he probably won't be able to feel the cold as it freezes the sick into his beard in a lasting embrace. What pisses me off is that he gets moved on constantly. Every time I have seen him doing his thing he's been shut down by the police. Why is it? Apparently he's causing a disruption but how is he any different to those tits who put chains on themselves and see if they can get out. In fact how is he different to those tits who pretend to play music whilst dressed up as Native Americans? He's not different at all, except he has talent, if he put a fucking juggling baton down next to him and wore so stupid get up then he'd be left to his own devices.

I'm going to set up a club night where the main act will be him fucking killing it to some sick tunes.