Tune stations

Footsteps and music walk together. Many million people, many tube stations and those familiar tunes thankfully not through your ear plugs.

Everyone seems to be caught in a swirl – like one in a tea cup.

And like powdered sugar, music sweetens the journey.

They’ve been written about to death, but every single time I pass a busker I feel invigorated. It must take real love for music to play at a tube station like this.
If it didn’t the music would never be so enchanting.

To me, these tunes are motifs of struggle in the face of opposition. An ode to playing music with lyrics that announce: If you love to do something you’ll do it anyway.

I think it represents purity amidst the pathos, strength in the middle of disaster and the idea that adversity can be enjoyed.

It announces melodiously that the world is not sold out to greedy businesses and that everyone needn’t be institutionalised.

A penny for their music and a pound for the message.

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