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Why the campaign to Keep Streets Live in York really matters….
It is just over two weeks since my busking badge was ‘suspended’ by York City Council because of my refusal to pay the punitive rate of £40 per day they want from buskers who display their CDs. I had...
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Amanda Palmer Supports Camden Busking Petition
By Philippa Morgan Walker Former street performer turned Dresden Dolls frontwoman and now solo artist, Amanda Palmer has shown her support for our barely-24-hours-old campaign via Twitter. To a million...
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Fundraising To Save Freedom Of Street Culture
Keep Streets Live has just launched a fundraising campaign via the platform IndyGoGo, with a rather splendid five minute video of what we are about and explaining the terrible situation we are fighting...
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The Fighting Fund: Part Two
DONATE to our campaign here This is a follow up to a campaign that recently finished on indiegogo which you can see at this link. We are aiming to cover all of our costs for a historic High Court...
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Busking Laws and the Lords
Lib Dem Peer Lord Clement-Jones, a well-known supporter of live music who brought in the Live Music Act in 2012 as a private member’s bill, has proposed the effective repeal of the law underpinning...
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Bath’s Buskers Under Threat-Keep Streets Live Stands With Them
Busking has been described as an “urban ritual that challenges the way in which we think about public space by promoting spontaneous, democratic, intimate encounters in some of the city’s most...
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Repeal London’s Anti Busking Laws
We have launched a new petition to safeguard London’s buskers from laws that threaten cultural freedoms. Please sign it via this link:...
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Open Letter to Oxford’s ruling Labour Group against their coercive busking...
Keep Streets Live is Campaigning Against Oxford Council’s plans to make ‘noncompliant busking’ a criminal offence Join our all day protest against Oxford’s coercive Public Space Protection Order...
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Stop Swindon Council’s Attack on Street Culture
Swindon’s Public Space Protection Order is an assault on the town’s civic life. Skateboarding ‘or similar’ in an ‘annoying’ way, drawing pavement art with chalk, playing fetch with a dog without a...
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KSL Response to Newcastle PSPO proposal
Please take a moment to complete this short, online consultation about a proposed Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) in Newcastle which the Keep Streets Live Campaign is opposing because it could see...
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Music/Media
The Keep Streets Live album was a project visualised by Nick Broad of The Busking Project. It showcases a number of performers who have supported KSL campaigns across the UK over the past few years, a...
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“Busking It”. Manchester.
The Manchester Busking Convention organised by Keep Streets Live and the Musicians’ Union is the first event of it’s type in the UK. It is aimed not only at buskers of all levels of experience and...
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