All Videos Tagged Cambridge (Cigar Box Nation) - Cigar Box Nation

When I Was A Bird - On Cigar Box Guitar, old drum & lager bottle

2016-08-12T23:15:26.094Z

A New Song I played at the 5th Cambridge Cigar Box Guitar Festival.
This song was inspired by my Grandson, who said one day when looking at a tub of fat balls we have in the garage for the birds "When I was a bird, I used to eat fat balls" That stuck in my head and a few weeks later this song came out....

LYRICS

When I was a bird I sat in a tree,
sang my song, feeling free,
mmmm when I was a bird,
mmmm feeling free.

When I was a tree I sheltered you,
watched you play and watched you grow,
mmmm when I was a tree,
mmmm I watched you grow.

When I was you and you were me,
we understood, no need to speak,
mmmm when I was you,
mmmm no need to speak.

You can be anything, if you can just imagine it.
You can be anything, anything that you need, whoo!

Inst

repeat 1st verse

The 4th Cambridge Cigar Box Guitar Festival

2015-09-16T14:09:10.677Z

At The Earl Of Beaconsfield, Mill Road, Cambridge, with:
bemuzic (Belinda Gent), Chipfat Fingerburn Jones (Ricky Tart), Roadkill (John Maw), Mary Harris, Slowpaw Steve T (Steve Trowbridge) Garance Monfort, Brickdust (Steve Parsons), Joe Cribb, Stumblecol (Colin Merry), Dr X (Markus Reeves)
Another great day thanks to Col, and everyone who came : -) A good mixture of music, and amazing South East Asian food from http://www.jalanjalan.co.uk/

GoPro headcam test 2 - Busker's eye view, with Cigar Box Guitar

2015-06-16T20:27:09.052Z

VIRTUAL TIP JAR! https://www.musicxray.com/tip_jars/12975

https://bemuzic.bandcamp.com/album/pass-it-on

Played on a home made Cigar Box Guitar, that you can't actually see much of on this film! If you want to see more go to this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2tqLX_7sY8

On my first try with the head cam I had it pointed too far down. This time I think I got it about right...except it seems to be tilted a bit to one side. Either I put the camera on wonky, or maybe I hold my head tilted a bit to the left??
Filmed at Cambridge Mill Pond. A lovely place to busk...quite a lot of people, but also cows and river. Can watch people trying to get started punting while I sing : -)

The Line - Busking, King's Parade, Cambridge

2015-05-31T22:26:19.190Z

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The Line is from my first album "Playing (No Rules)" available here https://bemuzic.bandcamp.com/album/playing-no-rules

Filmed with a GoPRo 4 Silver, last month. There were lots of sudden gusts of wind that day, which kept things interesting...you can see that my mic nearly blew over at 1.31 and I stopped it with my mouth!
I'm playing a 3 string Cigar Box Guitar that I made myself.
In the background you can see the amazing Chronophage, which I made a video about back in 2008 which you can see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsMwueAj2QU

GoPro headcam test. Buskers eye view! With Canjo

2015-04-27T23:23:35.217Z

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https://bemuzic.bandcamp.com/

My first try at using the head cam while busking. Meant it to show people's reactions to the Canjo, but it was pointing too far down for that : -/
Think I would have felt a bit silly in St Ives or Huntingdon with a camera strapped to my head, but it felt ok in Cambridge, people didn't take much notice....