Horsham Bass busker

[PainInTheBass]

I heard a person playing some epic slap bass in Horsham yesterday afternoon but I was in a rush to get to an appointment so couldn't stop to watch. By the time I got back they had packed up and gone. A rare thing to encounter a busking bassist, especially of that calibre.

 

Has anyone come across this particularly gifted busker before and knows who they are? If so could you point me in the direction of any Facebook/YouTube/other socials links?

 

Many thanks 🙏 👍 

[BassTractor]

Could that be Isaiah Brown by any chance?
In a YT vid, he plays a lefty Sire Marcus Miller M5.

Edited September 17, 2025 by BassTractor

[tubbybloke68]

I live in Horsham, I saw the kid a couple of years ago and he’s pretty handy! Don’t know who he is but very unusual (and pleasant) to see a bass only busker 😊.x 

[Mykesbass]

Possibly the guy I saw in Bognor a couple of years back. Hugely talented, but what a racket. 

[PainInTheBass]

5 hours ago, BassTractor said:

Could that be Isaiah Brown by any chance?
In a YT vid, he plays a lefty Sire Marcus Miller M5.

Thank you. I looked him up and found a video of him. That could be the guy. Some of the fills he played sound strikingly similar.

[christhammer666]

18 hours ago, Mykesbass said:

Possibly the guy I saw in Bognor a couple of years back. Hugely talented, but what a racket. 

the in-laws have a caravan in pagham, when we trip into bognor i always seek him out. brilliant playing

[Cliff Edge]

Busking. Bass players are a rarity. I’ve seen one in Hastings late last year noodling along to some jazzy backing tracks on a battered Jazz bass. 

[chris_b]

We had a group of Inca pipers at one time, and today there was a young drummer playing to tracks in the main pedestrian area, but never a busking bass player.

[Cliff Edge]

1 hour ago, chris_b said:

We had a group of Inca pipers at one time, and today there was a young drummer playing to tracks in the main pedestrian area, but never a busking bass player.

I’ve seen Inca pipers in various cities across the globe selling cd’s to the tourists. I think it’s an international business. 

[super al]

7 hours ago, chris_b said:

We had a group of Inca pipers at one time, and today there was a young drummer playing to tracks in the main pedestrian area, but never a busking bass player.

I've seen a drummer in Salisbury who wears a Spiderman outfit whilst playing, somehow just a drummer busking seems crazy but wearing that outfit too!

Inca pipers here as well.

We have a bluesy guitarist with a skeleton on drums...the skeleton was talking to the audience last time out.

My guitarist mate used to busk with a fiddle player, they now play pubs, parties, weddings and festivals...sometimes all on the same day! 😂

[PainInTheBass]

I've seen the blues guitarist with skeleton in Chichester a few times.

[tauzero]

I saw a young guy in St Austell in 2019 - not a local, and he got moved on fairly quickly which was a real shame. He had a bass in conventional position and a guitar on his lap, and he was tapping on the guitar with his right hand and on the bass with his left. I got a few seconds of video of him before he was stopped though.

[Downunderwonder]

I did a bit of busking with DB and a drummer. Drum and Bass, geddit? We even did sone D&B inspired musings. I had a few pedals and a battery rig.

[BassTractor]

11 hours ago, super al said:

they now play pubs, parties, weddings and festivals...sometimes all on the same day! 😂

Hehehe.
I fondly remember how I played for funerals and weddings on the same day - playing the same pieces twice: in minor and slow at the funeral, and of course in major and up-tempo at the wedding. 😀

Edited September 19, 2025 by BassTractor

[Woodwind]

On 18/09/2025 at 17:22, Cliff Edge said:

I’ve seen Inca pipers in various cities across the globe selling cd’s to the tourists. I think it’s an international business. 

So much so that The Fast Show lampooned the phenomena back in the 90's

[Steve Browning]

On 19/09/2025 at 00:40, PainInTheBass said:

I've seen the blues guitarist with skeleton in Chichester a few times.

I have seen him regularly in Winchester.