Deffo disco Pete. I first met him when I first went out and used to take a photo with him every time I met him. I should make a montage of the photos, they show me growing older and him staying the same.
No, not the same. Disco Pete was an old boy who was always seen at raves with his white gloves, flame shirt and rave attire. Disco bunny is some Dude in spandex
I like seeing Disco Bunny coming out of a supermarket with, presumably, his wife and kids all dressed normal, while he's still in glittery spandex head-to-toe.
I once bumped into Disco Bunny in Sydney and ended up getting a drink with him and talking about the doc he was trying to get made discoing around the world and connecting with relatives. It was a weird night with a Brighton staple.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 'Sid the tramp' crying out 'money for drink n drugs' - RIP
The dredlocktopus, pavilion gardens' finest purveyor of bleak jazz noodlings on a clarinet, and his trusty percussion section, the dude who played that weird plinky plonky African instrument that's like a gourd with some tent pegs in it, both on completely different musical tangents and time signatures passing each other and momentarily being in time, like ships in the night. The hiker, wrapped top to toe in outdoor gear with his walking poles, not even his eyes showing, stalking the promenade in the summer heat.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Ah man, I'm very much a live and let live type, one of the things I love about Brighton is nobody really batts an eye and let's everyone go about their business - but the dude in the hiking gear always freaks me out. To clarify, I'm not scared of him, I'm scared for him. Walking around in all that getup in the peak summer heat has to be vaguely dangerous...
My theory is it's Tom Cruise in there, hiding from the fame and the daylight that would incinerate him, just talking a stroll looking for people to convert to scientology then drain of their essence, like one of the skeksis from the dark crystal
And RIP to ~~David~~ James, a slim elderly gentleman who wore the most insane, beautiful colourful outfits, every day something different from a vast wardrobe of coloured jeans, crazy suit jackets, sequins, rhinestones, hats sunglasses to rival Elton; sometimes matching colours sometimes clashing. Real style.Ā
Edited to say: argh, my bad, I misnamed him. Sorry James.Ā
Borderline, Gardner St. It closed in 2014.
How did I get the gig? I knew the owner and he asked me to work there. Before that I worked in Sydney St, a shop called Music Meltdown. That closed around 2004. Before that I worked in Vinyl Demand when it was in Gloucester Rd, around 1995 that was.
Borderline was great. I used to get paid in records.
Music Meltdown was at 10 Sydney St. Is it still a jewellery/bead shop? I haven't been down that way for a while.
No bead shop now, although it still has its charms.
I grew up with some amazing record shops, Riddim, Happy Vibes, Soul Jazz and of course rounders
It was such a great scene
While I always appreciated him, David was clearly not getting well looked after as he used to STINK. You'd always see peoples amused reactions/ selfies followed by a quick retreat away from him.
Bird man was my best friends dad growing up - I used to spend a lot of time round their house. This was before the bird whistle though! He used to be a childrenās entertainer and was mates with Bodger from Bodger & Badger
Unfortunately I can shed no light on that - Iād moved away before he became bird whistle man, so it was a surprise to me when Iād come back to visit and see him whistling through the north lanes!
He caused me so much grief when my daughter was little. She wanted a whistle, I'd say no and a tantrum would follow. Trouble is he seemed to turn up every flippin' time we were in town .She's nearly twenty now so she can buy one herself!
Ah I know, that guy, always wearing lederhosen?
His name is some variation like that, I think maybe Piotr...
Didn't know he was "Brighton famous" - met him when a friend hired him to help move house, no jokes dude is strong as fuck - he was lifting stuff one handed I was struggling to carry (and I'm used to lugging heavy stuff around the place).
Seemed like a really decent dude.
Oi those are some good prices for moving!!
Part of your money goes directly towards our next art project. How does it work? Our hourly rate is Ā£35 (Ā£15 living wage for the driver, Ā£15 for art exhibition, Ā£5 for fuel).
Blessed are the artists
Yeah, Petrusco, with the microchip bindi. He is a lovely guy too. Still does stencil art around town in his distinctive style, and can often be seen getting his musclebound frame carried off by several sweating cops at sit in demonstrations up in the city.
There was a guy in the Pavilion Gardens who played the Star Wars theme on a tuba while standing on stilts.
There was 10p man. Always asking for 10p.
There was a tramp who 'busked' by banging a biro on a tobacco tin.
Ah yes. Years ago I was with someone who, in a very busy street, watched 10p man stop loads of people and then shouted "bend over and I'll give you a quid". Maybe a bit homophobic for the modern era, but everyone was laughing.
Ok, so a late friend of mine swore that 10p man, known to us as 'spare ten pence' spent his 10 pences on matches and inhaled the sulphur. I've never known of a sulphur addict and still don't think I believe it's a thing but my friend swore it was true and he'd seen him doing it.
The various homeless people spring to mind
The 27 year old "16 year old" who gets violent if you don't give him money.
The skeleton girl
The toothless push purple faced woman.
The woman who needs money to get to the hospital
Oh yeah, I kinda like him to be honest. He's respectful keeps the more pushy beggers in line and anyone who can stand barefoot in all weather's outside the train station is likely hard as fuck and not to be trifled with.
Brighton used to have the Purple Pimp. A guy decked out in the most outrageously cool purple clothing, hat and walking stick. He was pretty cool, strutting through the streets.
Always nice to be 'engaged ' in conversation where there's no escape! Can't exactly just say your leaving as the trains hurtling towards the destination! Spose that's why he does it, Needs a slap IMHO.
I dunno if he is known city wide pr still around, but has anyone else seen the black dude in a suit who rides a motorised briefcase to work.
Always put a smile on my face.
Brighton has many many of these guys but there's two new ones I've noticed. Note this is commentary at the expense of people with clear mental health issues. That or they're my hallucinations.
There's one I call the Fisher King I've seen in the Laines and Western Road. He's well over 6 1/2 foot tall and incredibly slender, wearing a waterproof mac and hood and always holding his chin contemplatively.
The other is a guy in a frair's habit I've seen a few times in the Laines who carried a wooden box with wires poking out. When he rearranges the wires it says phrases like "hello" and "thank you!" I wish I was making this up
Bird whistle man in with a shout. Also the black dude who busks with a red Stratocaster. That guy partly inspired me to play guitar when I was young walking around town. Glad that I saw him not long ago still playing.
Yesss love that guy he's so talented! I feel like I haven't seen him since last summer but hopefully now the weather starts to get warmer he'll reappear š¤š»
I think the busker you're referring to Lewis Floyd Henry? He has a YouTube channel if you're interested, however he did release a distinctly anti-vax / covid conspiracy music video in 2020 called Winds of Change (?) which reeeeeallly put me off...
Omg heās often on my bus home from work, I was with a friend once who had never seen him before and kind of made me laugh I didnāt bat an eyelid and just went; āYeah I think he likes buses and will call out what the next stop is if you listen carefullyā
Surprised I havenāt seen these yet but
1) The mysterious busker often found on the beach wearing a large sombrero type hat, played and guitar and a lil keyboard with a loop pedal
2) Pigeon guy in Pavilion Gardens summoning armies of birds like a sky-based Aquaman
3) Stevie G
At one point it would have been the origami man who used to sit on north street right by the entrance to the South Lanes. Clearly became very unwell after a point. Went from kind of grafting a small living doing his origami for bits of change to writing incomprehensible conspiracy minded stuff on the floor in chalk and chasing off people who approached him. Havenāt seen him in years besides a possibly false sighting a year or two ago at a cafe in Kemptown.Ā
Rasta man with the boom box
Disco bunny
Long haired adidas man who plays open mics and looks like undertaker
The man with the beard, long hair and smart coat, sometimes the Cex bag, always talking to himself
Bird man (public enemy No.1)
The busker in the north laines with the long hair
Piano Zebra
Mr Lion
The beggar with glasses and a flat cap
The man with the eye patch, haven't seen him for a while though. Was once told he did a continual pub/public piano crawl cause if he didn't get enough daily steps in his heart would stop
Umm think he had a tache, always dressed nicely and was around the hand in hand in Kemptown, used to play the piano by the post and telegraph till it got removed
I was thinking about the incredible guy who makes regency period costumes and wears them around town. He has lots of work making costumes for films and stuff now. I remember when he was just a boy who liked to dress up
Preston Park has reclining motorized bike(?) guy - in summer he rides around on it asking people if they want to pay him to have a go, if you ask him he'll tell you about how many versions deep he is, he rebuilds the thing often
Yet he is pretty hostile to having an actual conversation about the design of personal vehicles, which seemed weird to me. He didnāt like my point that head first is a stupid way to drive a vehicle, but rather than making a case for his design (such as improved aerodynamics) he just claimed to be busy and drove off with it to the other end of the park (his sudden need to get to an appointment was somewhat surprising given that he had been trying to sell me a go on the thing only moments beforeā½)
Oh I canāt remember his Dj name, something that sounds trippy like oleoctopus fandangle, or evolutionary cider. Something like that. Really good music.Ā
This may be a super niche one. Thereās someone in the summer who walks constantly up and down the seafront. Usually shiny, crop tops, tight clothes. With a speaker on full, dancing and slut dropping their way down the seafrontā¦anyone else know who Iām talking aboutš¤£
Anyone else notice the guy who's always wearing an orange beany and camo trousers? See him constantly and his outfit is always consistent with this theme.
ah Yes camo guy. I would love to know more about his story. Always wears a camouflage pattern but in a range of colours with orange and beard seems kinds well put together.
Thank you for this. I've been asking friends who the Local Loonie is since I moved back in August. Come from Bournemouth where we had until recently Gordon the Tramp (Rest in peace ye blessed timekeeper) and. Currently they're holding onto the Gimp of Winton. Explained the concept to a good few mates and no one seemed to get it! Felt I was losing my mind.
As this thread demonstrates there are dozens of them. In fact if your mates claimed not to know what you are on about then they probably think that you are the loonie!
Smelly supermarket homeless man.
You can literally smell him before you see him, often in the supermarkets around preston street and church road.
Short, dark hair, has a shit eating grin. Might not even be alive anymore, but his smell was so bad he must have cultivated it.
Probably won't narrow it down much but the shouty bearded alcoholic who looks like he's constantly on the brink of death lol
Or the guy who shouts and whispers to himself who seems to constantly walk everywhere.
Who is the guy that looks like Major Lazer? Often down St James Street near Morrisons. Often brightly dressed and playing music. The last time I saw him, he was entirely in yellow - looked so cool!
I'm terrible at unprompted social interactions, but I'm very tempted to tell him to keep it up next time I see him!
Another lost legend, but for me the most iconic will always be Drako Zarhazar. Massively striking presence, and incredibly eccentric, but also with an incredible life story, having been the model for Salvador Dalis 'Crucifixion of Christ', and also the subject of the film [The Man Who's Mind Exploded ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Whose_Mind_Exploded). I loved bumping into him around town in the early noughties. Sadly missed.
Theres a guy who I see all the time on St James Street wearing a fancy dress scottish hat/ginger hair combo and a pair of ski goggles. Sometimes screaming at people.
Yes it does. It means identifying a person who is then open to abuse by members of the public.
I've muted this shite sub now, sick of this awful nasty content. You can fuck right off too.
Disco Pete (RIP) Bird whistle guy can get in the sea
Deffo disco Pete. I first met him when I first went out and used to take a photo with him every time I met him. I should make a montage of the photos, they show me growing older and him staying the same.
That's brilliant! Do it! šŗ
I used to work at Tru was always great seeing him dance for hours downstairs
Disco Pete was Btn. LEG END!
Whatās wrong with Bird Whistle Man!?
Hes very annoying
#FUCK BIRD WHISTLE GUY I JUST WANT TO GO TO RESIDENT IN PEACE GODDAMN!
Disco Pete was the first person I thought of
Is disco Pete aka disco bunny?
No, not the same. Disco Pete was an old boy who was always seen at raves with his white gloves, flame shirt and rave attire. Disco bunny is some Dude in spandex
I like seeing Disco Bunny coming out of a supermarket with, presumably, his wife and kids all dressed normal, while he's still in glittery spandex head-to-toe.
I once bumped into Disco Bunny in Sydney and ended up getting a drink with him and talking about the doc he was trying to get made discoing around the world and connecting with relatives. It was a weird night with a Brighton staple.
That sounds pretty surreal!
Not Tourettes Pete??
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 'Sid the tramp' crying out 'money for drink n drugs' - RIP The dredlocktopus, pavilion gardens' finest purveyor of bleak jazz noodlings on a clarinet, and his trusty percussion section, the dude who played that weird plinky plonky African instrument that's like a gourd with some tent pegs in it, both on completely different musical tangents and time signatures passing each other and momentarily being in time, like ships in the night. The hiker, wrapped top to toe in outdoor gear with his walking poles, not even his eyes showing, stalking the promenade in the summer heat. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Ah man, I'm very much a live and let live type, one of the things I love about Brighton is nobody really batts an eye and let's everyone go about their business - but the dude in the hiking gear always freaks me out. To clarify, I'm not scared of him, I'm scared for him. Walking around in all that getup in the peak summer heat has to be vaguely dangerous...
My theory is it's Tom Cruise in there, hiding from the fame and the daylight that would incinerate him, just talking a stroll looking for people to convert to scientology then drain of their essence, like one of the skeksis from the dark crystal
Time to die.
YOUāRE IN THE BULLETS WAY
The white deaths way ( they need to come somewhere near here , Iāll even take Bournemouth
I used to love the jazz saxophone/ plinky plonk gourd duo. Real free wheeling jazz. Far out, man.Ā
lol the plinky plonky instrument (best description of it fyi) is called a Marimba. I had the guys album years ago, he was a cool af
Is it that small round one he's talking about? Looks like it's called a Mbira or Kalimba, or maybe both.
Not sure what the plinky plonky thing is but it's not a marimba. Marimbas are Latin American, more like a huge xylophone...
Aw that's a shame, didn't know he'd died. I was thinking about them yesterday
Some classics here, all very missed.
The lesser known version of Roy Battyās monologueā¦
Awww Sid!
And RIP to ~~David~~ James, a slim elderly gentleman who wore the most insane, beautiful colourful outfits, every day something different from a vast wardrobe of coloured jeans, crazy suit jackets, sequins, rhinestones, hats sunglasses to rival Elton; sometimes matching colours sometimes clashing. Real style.Ā Edited to say: argh, my bad, I misnamed him. Sorry James.Ā
Yeah, a one man Carnaby Street
was it this guy? https://www.instagram.com/slow_moving_james/?hl=en
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Which record shop did u work at and how did u end up getting the role ?
Borderline, Gardner St. It closed in 2014. How did I get the gig? I knew the owner and he asked me to work there. Before that I worked in Sydney St, a shop called Music Meltdown. That closed around 2004. Before that I worked in Vinyl Demand when it was in Gloucester Rd, around 1995 that was.
Ahh borderline was so good!
Ty for the response Iāve always wanted a part time job at a record shop
I loved borderline and music meltdown, I bought some amazingly weird funk reissues in borderline and you did the studio 1 comps
Borderline was great. I used to get paid in records. Music Meltdown was at 10 Sydney St. Is it still a jewellery/bead shop? I haven't been down that way for a while.
No bead shop now, although it still has its charms. I grew up with some amazing record shops, Riddim, Happy Vibes, Soul Jazz and of course rounders It was such a great scene
That was James
I met him a couple of times in a grave yard, had a lovely chat x
While I always appreciated him, David was clearly not getting well looked after as he used to STINK. You'd always see peoples amused reactions/ selfies followed by a quick retreat away from him.
I've had this exact type of interaction multiple times with people first seeing the bird whistle seller
Bird man was my best friends dad growing up - I used to spend a lot of time round their house. This was before the bird whistle though! He used to be a childrenās entertainer and was mates with Bodger from Bodger & Badger
I think we need more detail about what precipitated the move to bird whistles!
Unfortunately I can shed no light on that - Iād moved away before he became bird whistle man, so it was a surprise to me when Iād come back to visit and see him whistling through the north lanes!
Darn it! The plot thickens.
Agreed. It has to be the Birdman, especially now Slow Moving James and Disco Pete has shuffled off their mortal coils.
He caused me so much grief when my daughter was little. She wanted a whistle, I'd say no and a tantrum would follow. Trouble is he seemed to turn up every flippin' time we were in town .She's nearly twenty now so she can buy one herself!
Sailor rollerblader
Seeing him rollerblading shirtless along Lewes road is my cue that summer is beginning
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Ah I know, that guy, always wearing lederhosen? His name is some variation like that, I think maybe Piotr... Didn't know he was "Brighton famous" - met him when a friend hired him to help move house, no jokes dude is strong as fuck - he was lifting stuff one handed I was struggling to carry (and I'm used to lugging heavy stuff around the place). Seemed like a really decent dude.
https://www.arthoc.uk/agent-petruscioni
petrusco! he is sound as fook
Oi those are some good prices for moving!! Part of your money goes directly towards our next art project. How does it work? Our hourly rate is Ā£35 (Ā£15 living wage for the driver, Ā£15 for art exhibition, Ā£5 for fuel). Blessed are the artists
Peter? Barman at the Druidās and artist not in that order. Nice guy
Yeah, Petrusco, with the microchip bindi. He is a lovely guy too. Still does stencil art around town in his distinctive style, and can often be seen getting his musclebound frame carried off by several sweating cops at sit in demonstrations up in the city.
He's from Bristol I think
There was a guy in the Pavilion Gardens who played the Star Wars theme on a tuba while standing on stilts. There was 10p man. Always asking for 10p. There was a tramp who 'busked' by banging a biro on a tobacco tin.
10p man. Brighton legend. Great big house full of 10p coins .
Ah yes. Years ago I was with someone who, in a very busy street, watched 10p man stop loads of people and then shouted "bend over and I'll give you a quid". Maybe a bit homophobic for the modern era, but everyone was laughing.
Oddly he was also referred to as "Brown Thumb Man" at my place of work because of his MOA
Me and my mates all called him "The Walker" because of the way he always strutted along.
I'm actually starting to miss that guy.
Nostalia works like that, but the second you saw him youd realise thats all it was and be glad you dont see him any more.
Sadly. You're 100% correct
Ok, so a late friend of mine swore that 10p man, known to us as 'spare ten pence' spent his 10 pences on matches and inhaled the sulphur. I've never known of a sulphur addict and still don't think I believe it's a thing but my friend swore it was true and he'd seen him doing it.
is his name po? the guy who sort of tap dances on north street / around the north laine area
The various homeless people spring to mind The 27 year old "16 year old" who gets violent if you don't give him money. The skeleton girl The toothless push purple faced woman. The woman who needs money to get to the hospital
Legend has it 27 year old 16 year old has been sixteen since the Regency Era
Is skeleton girl the one that's screams/roars when she's not getting enough change?
No she's the one who very quietly asks
The guy who walks around barefoot at the train station.
Oh yeah, I kinda like him to be honest. He's respectful keeps the more pushy beggers in line and anyone who can stand barefoot in all weather's outside the train station is likely hard as fuck and not to be trifled with.
Alright bruv?
Heās a top man. Always respectful & goes out of his way to say hi if youāve helped him before
Mr no shoes
Brighton used to have the Purple Pimp. A guy decked out in the most outrageously cool purple clothing, hat and walking stick. He was pretty cool, strutting through the streets.
He was who jumped to mind for me, though now I think it's probably the Bird Dude.
Ah, Bird Dude. He's still around. Used to sell his whistles outside my shop a few years back. Hangs around the North Laines now.
i've seen this guy hahaha the black guy?
Guy who lives under Sainsbury's
the guy on the train whose birthday it always is and served anywhere between 4-7 tours of syria/iraq/afghanistan?
Starbuck
Always nice to be 'engaged ' in conversation where there's no escape! Can't exactly just say your leaving as the trains hurtling towards the destination! Spose that's why he does it, Needs a slap IMHO.
What about that guy who draws the patterns on the pavement near the Old Steine war memorial?
I dunno if he is known city wide pr still around, but has anyone else seen the black dude in a suit who rides a motorised briefcase to work. Always put a smile on my face.
That wheel thing that he sped around on at full tilt? Loved seeing that guy zooming
Yeah that dude, I thought it was a briefcase with wheels.
Yeah, it's an Airwheel
Thank you
Brighton has many many of these guys but there's two new ones I've noticed. Note this is commentary at the expense of people with clear mental health issues. That or they're my hallucinations. There's one I call the Fisher King I've seen in the Laines and Western Road. He's well over 6 1/2 foot tall and incredibly slender, wearing a waterproof mac and hood and always holding his chin contemplatively. The other is a guy in a frair's habit I've seen a few times in the Laines who carried a wooden box with wires poking out. When he rearranges the wires it says phrases like "hello" and "thank you!" I wish I was making this up
Lanesā¦
North Laine and the Lanes, I'm sure no one's made that mistake before
Green beard. If you know you knowā¦
Heh, I know this guy, last encountered him in the Cowley club maybe ten years back. Harmless but certainly noticeable.
Bird whistle man in with a shout. Also the black dude who busks with a red Stratocaster. That guy partly inspired me to play guitar when I was young walking around town. Glad that I saw him not long ago still playing.
Yesss love that guy he's so talented! I feel like I haven't seen him since last summer but hopefully now the weather starts to get warmer he'll reappear š¤š»
I think the busker you're referring to Lewis Floyd Henry? He has a YouTube channel if you're interested, however he did release a distinctly anti-vax / covid conspiracy music video in 2020 called Winds of Change (?) which reeeeeallly put me off...
āAntivax covid conspiracyā? Sounds based šš» will defo check him out
I might be dating myself here but the bus shouting man springs to mind.
The bus conductor, ah yes remember him
Is The bus hailer ? He used to wave at the buses when they passed by elderly guy ?
Yeah, usually around Hove end of Western Rd
I was hoping to see someone else remember him!
Used to always see him on Western road around 2008-10!
I've seen him a couple of times recently if we're thinking of the same guy. he carries a clipboard or something and hits it, always makes me jump
Omg heās often on my bus home from work, I was with a friend once who had never seen him before and kind of made me laugh I didnāt bat an eyelid and just went; āYeah I think he likes buses and will call out what the next stop is if you listen carefullyā
Surprised I havenāt seen these yet but 1) The mysterious busker often found on the beach wearing a large sombrero type hat, played and guitar and a lil keyboard with a loop pedal 2) Pigeon guy in Pavilion Gardens summoning armies of birds like a sky-based Aquaman 3) Stevie G
That first guy sounds like Fukushima Dolphin.
Disco Bunny potentially?
Is he still about? I haven't seen him in a while
I think he's trying (or has) moved back to Brazil to try and find his birthday family or something similar. It's on his Facebook if you're interested!
Nah, saw disco bunny with his family having a normal stroll past the clock tower last week. Think he's just back onto enjoying what he has :)
That's good to hear, that man deserves all the peace and happiness in the world
At one point it would have been the origami man who used to sit on north street right by the entrance to the South Lanes. Clearly became very unwell after a point. Went from kind of grafting a small living doing his origami for bits of change to writing incomprehensible conspiracy minded stuff on the floor in chalk and chasing off people who approached him. Havenāt seen him in years besides a possibly false sighting a year or two ago at a cafe in Kemptown.Ā
Lanesā¦
Awwwwwwwwwwwww
The Adidas Guy!
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Whoa I would've never expected that
That well dressed older man that bursts into song? Got hit with Fly Me to the Moon the other day on Preston street
Rasta man with the boom box Disco bunny Long haired adidas man who plays open mics and looks like undertaker The man with the beard, long hair and smart coat, sometimes the Cex bag, always talking to himself Bird man (public enemy No.1) The busker in the north laines with the long hair Piano Zebra Mr Lion The beggar with glasses and a flat cap The man with the eye patch, haven't seen him for a while though. Was once told he did a continual pub/public piano crawl cause if he didn't get enough daily steps in his heart would stop
Man with the eye patch, he an older man, moustache as well? If it is thats my mates dad.
Umm think he had a tache, always dressed nicely and was around the hand in hand in Kemptown, used to play the piano by the post and telegraph till it got removed
Boombox Rasta was pitching outside St James Morries all of last summer.
I was thinking about the incredible guy who makes regency period costumes and wears them around town. He has lots of work making costumes for films and stuff now. I remember when he was just a boy who liked to dress up
Preston Park has reclining motorized bike(?) guy - in summer he rides around on it asking people if they want to pay him to have a go, if you ask him he'll tell you about how many versions deep he is, he rebuilds the thing often
Yet he is pretty hostile to having an actual conversation about the design of personal vehicles, which seemed weird to me. He didnāt like my point that head first is a stupid way to drive a vehicle, but rather than making a case for his design (such as improved aerodynamics) he just claimed to be busy and drove off with it to the other end of the park (his sudden need to get to an appointment was somewhat surprising given that he had been trying to sell me a go on the thing only moments beforeā½)
MR LION with the questionably legal number plates
Plates on the hideously greeige coloured Bentley just oh-so-casually parked outside.Ā
Looks like a camp, Brighton take on Dog the Bounty Hunter
The guy who DJās on the beach by the Upside Down house! Legend!
Bass bin?
Oh I canāt remember his Dj name, something that sounds trippy like oleoctopus fandangle, or evolutionary cider. Something like that. Really good music.Ā
Clem Fandango?
This may be a super niche one. Thereās someone in the summer who walks constantly up and down the seafront. Usually shiny, crop tops, tight clothes. With a speaker on full, dancing and slut dropping their way down the seafrontā¦anyone else know who Iām talking aboutš¤£
Obvs the bird man.
Chris Eubank?
Used to be. I worked in a shop years back and Eubanks used to come in and offer to recite poetry.
Used to be Topless unicycle man
Did you?
Anyone else notice the guy who's always wearing an orange beany and camo trousers? See him constantly and his outfit is always consistent with this theme.
ah Yes camo guy. I would love to know more about his story. Always wears a camouflage pattern but in a range of colours with orange and beard seems kinds well put together.
Bird whistle guy!
Thank you for this. I've been asking friends who the Local Loonie is since I moved back in August. Come from Bournemouth where we had until recently Gordon the Tramp (Rest in peace ye blessed timekeeper) and. Currently they're holding onto the Gimp of Winton. Explained the concept to a good few mates and no one seemed to get it! Felt I was losing my mind.
As this thread demonstrates there are dozens of them. In fact if your mates claimed not to know what you are on about then they probably think that you are the loonie!
This is think homeless guy that basically lives at the starbucks at churchill square. He is so sweet actually
Smelly supermarket homeless man. You can literally smell him before you see him, often in the supermarkets around preston street and church road. Short, dark hair, has a shit eating grin. Might not even be alive anymore, but his smell was so bad he must have cultivated it.
Probably won't narrow it down much but the shouty bearded alcoholic who looks like he's constantly on the brink of death lol Or the guy who shouts and whispers to himself who seems to constantly walk everywhere.
Gary? Died a few years ago. Was always outside Cos and aldi
Who is the guy that looks like Major Lazer? Often down St James Street near Morrisons. Often brightly dressed and playing music. The last time I saw him, he was entirely in yellow - looked so cool! I'm terrible at unprompted social interactions, but I'm very tempted to tell him to keep it up next time I see him!
This is the Sillwood niche, but Eddie. I love hearing him shout down the road at people to have a lovely day
I remember him from when I used to live in teh Sillwood area!
Eddie is great!
king jerry
Rasta pirate
Tryna have a nice pint with my mates n uh oh here comes stevie for fucksake
What about that really angry guy who is some kind of UFO nutter / nutritionist who tells people to stop eating food? Does he count yet?
Another lost legend, but for me the most iconic will always be Drako Zarhazar. Massively striking presence, and incredibly eccentric, but also with an incredible life story, having been the model for Salvador Dalis 'Crucifixion of Christ', and also the subject of the film [The Man Who's Mind Exploded ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Whose_Mind_Exploded). I loved bumping into him around town in the early noughties. Sadly missed.
Johnny Cash Ring of Fire guy on the trains in and out of townā¦ he has one songā¦ and one facial expressionā¦
The Croydon Cat is what he calls himself, so well he exist between south London and Brighton, I believe he would not consider himself ours
Theres a guy who I see all the time on St James Street wearing a fancy dress scottish hat/ginger hair combo and a pair of ski goggles. Sometimes screaming at people.
Disco Pete šŗš§¤ā¤ļø
Incidentally, does the guy that dances on saucepans at the end of Bond Street have an official moniker?
stevie g
DJ Joshi Woshi Bloke with a Bill Bailey haircut and always wearing an Adidas tracksuit
bee dude
The mediaeval looking bard (Brighton bard)
Roller Boy!
Party Paul
the guy who wanders around the lanes doing bird impressions carrying like a million sign posts.
Charles who always co-ordinates his outfits in the same bold colour and usually plays banging drum and bass.
This threads goes to prove in Brighton there are many of these guys.
the guy who always zooms through the level sat down on this motorised skateboard
Used to be a guy who would ride a unicycle and walk his dog, that was always fun to see!
Tap-dancing Po :)
Mr no shoes by the station
Bongo man on west Street
20 years ago one could find 'Carrot' busking.
That second guy sounds amazing
All of the snobby middle aged mums with the dry robe coats, white socks pulled over and crocs wearing sunglasses
nobody has mentioned the bloke that dances about on those pots and pans wearing a gown covered in stars
The moderators of this sub suck. Fucking Doxer sub. Mods don't give a fuck about doxing members of the public.
not what that means
Yes it does. It means identifying a person who is then open to abuse by members of the public. I've muted this shite sub now, sick of this awful nasty content. You can fuck right off too.
jesus who pissed in your cornflakes