(jovial pop music)
- Hello, I am out today at Leicester Square.
I have actually not done shows
for quite a while at Leicester Square.
So I'm really excited to be here.
I've got some friends around I've not seen for a while.
So I'm going to have a nice happy day of doing shows.
Yeah, I'm in a good mood.
Today should be good.
It's gonna be good.
It's gonna be really good, really, really good.
Really, rea--
Ah, it's too many really's, it's not gonna be that good.
Alright, here we go.
Hello, my little Scottish friends.
- Good morning. - [Steven] How are you?
I feel like whenever I see you
it's like weeks and weeks apart.
- I know.
- [Steven] We used to see each other every day.
- But it's just the same.
- [Steven] Oh, I know right?
Where's Hiroshi?
- I've not seen him.
- [Steven] He's in Leicester Square.
- Is he?
- [Steven] Yeah he said he was in prep.
Oh! And I've just been Morf'd.
I'm literally seven seconds ahead of you.
Oh, look at that.
Your hair looks sharp, look at you.
Someone went for an
expensive hair cut. - Hi my name is
Steven Fridges.
- [Steven] Stephen Fridges?
- I do magic.
- [Steven] That's my new brand.
That's my new brand.
- [Murdo] Look what I've got. - What've you got?
- [Murdo] Oh, are you ready for madness?
- [Steven] What is it? Yeah, I'm ready.
I'm ready.
- [Murdo] People of YouTube...
- [Steven] I'm all about this.
- [Friend] Two mice.
- [Steven] Oh my god, what are you doing with mice?
(laughing)
- [Friend] Deobo gave them.
- [Steven] For real?
- [Friend] Yeah.
- [Stephen] Oh my God, they're so cute.
- [Friend] I know, they are so cute.
- [Stephen] Of all the things I expected, that was the last.
Look at this!
He's actually so cute.
I didn't know I liked mice this much.
Feel the love off that.
- It's the weasel circus!
- Oh, hello, hello.
- We got a new busker.
- It's really important to encourage
your busking friends, when they're getting
ready for a show.
Hey, Morf!
Get a real job!
- No!
Ready? - [Stephen] Yeah. Go for it.
Oh my gosh.
What?
No.
Just calm down.
We can't handle this.
We can't handle...
Hey Morf, give everyone musician advice,
you're a really great musician,
you've been viral on the Facebooks,
give us some musician advice.
(laughing)
Come on. Come on.
- Stop. - [Stephen] Many people
are waiting.
- If possible, make...
Make your fingers more lucrative.
- [Stephen] I was touching the mouse with this hand.
- Oh god.
(acoustic guitar music)
Hey if you like that...
If you like anything you're hearing, there is
an album available for...
See the sign, help yourself...
If you wanna come up afterwards and get me
to sign it for whatever reasons,
some people like that,
I'm here with a pen.
Alright we're gonna break it down...
Thank you.
Into five parts, starting with the thing on
the floor which is a stomp box.
It's basically a microphone in a metal box.
(microphone thumping)
(stomp box thumping)
Like that.
So we wanna stamp on it,
gives me a bit of a kick drum.
And the second part, the drums, comes from
being a lonely teenage male with a right hand
and realising it's somewhat rhythmatic
at a quiet young age.
Don't ask me how I figured that out, it's perfectly natural.
(skilled acoustic guitar playing)
(♪)
♪ Want your windows down
♪ Listen to the sound
♪ Control...
- Morf is so good.
I don't know if you guys have seen lap guitar before, but...
It's impressive.
Most of the time, but then when Morf does it, it's like,
next level impressive.
(imitating lap guitar sounds)
That... I don't know what that was.
That was me trying to do... never mind.
(pop music)
(distant acoustic guitar)
Murdo is having a bit of a rough show,
his voice is just totally gone.
Normally he absolutely kills it
but right now he just got out there and started singing
and he's just not doing as well as he normally would,
so I just went over and filmed it just to, like...
Make him feel bad about himself.
It's all fun. It's all fun and banter.
Don't you worry.
(street and city sounds)
Yeah! What's going on?
- You cannot toast the...
- [Stephen] I don't need to toast it!
So I just had the weirdest experience in Pratt.
I've only just sort of started to clock what happened.
I thought that when I got there and I put the food
on the till to pay for it, she was like...
"Nope, can't have this" in like a joking
"No, I'm not gonna sell you this food" kind of way,
but retrospectively, then she started telling me
to go get a ham and cheese toastie, and I was like
"What?"
Retrospectively I think I must have said something
when she thought I said "Can I get this toasted?"
And then she was like "No, I can't toast that,
but you can get this toasted."
And we went through this whole weird conversation
where I was like, "I don't want it toasted!"
She was like, "Que?"
That was retrospectively
quite an embarrassing awkward moment.
Alright, now it's my time to do a show.
I'm gonna pass the camera to Murdo, so he's gonna film
some lovely shots of the show.
Here you go.
Great job.
Please don't drop it. - I look good, don't I?
- [Stephen] Please don't drop it.
- Oh I look good. - Really?
You sound awful though, so...
(laughing)
(jovial pop music)
What happened to your YouTube channel,
is that still a thing that exists?
- Eh, yeah probably yeah, it does exist,
it's going to be a...
I'm gonna be onboard... - Yeah?
- As soon as summer comes, yeah.
- He's a very good musician, but not today.
He's kind of lost his voice a bit...
- Not today man, not today.
- Filmed a tiny bit of you just playing to no audience,
- Please don't do that.
- I know.
So I took to walk to get a good coffee
and I just fancy a really good coffee.
- Yeah, if you want a good coffee
I would say not to go to the EasyCoffee.
- Yeah.
- But a cheap coffee, go to EasyCoffee.
- Yeah.
So in that show I just did, I...
That's never happened to me before.
Knocking the cup off the table and the lemon appearing
just a tiny bit to early for the impact,
so it just looked like a mistake...
- Then you dropped the lemon again...
- But it was a mistake.
Then I dropped it again.
But made the second one appear more on time.
But... the trick to deal with those moments is just
to downplay it.
I was like, hey more!
And move on to the next thing real fast...
- What?
- Oh my god is it closed down?
No.
No!
This doesn't look good.
They are in.
- It's a bit disappointing.
- [Stephen] This is my favourite coffee place!
That's... Yeah, there's no sign.
That's horrifying.
Luckily for you, Murdo,
I have another coffee shop that's just from the...
Yeah.
(upbeat music)
Murdo, we're just gonna use a few cards.
Point to one.
Nice.
Look at it, remember it.
- [Murdo] Okay.
- Got it? - [Murdo] Yeah.
- Take those.
And can you spring them to me? - [Murdo] I can, yeah.
- Alright Murdo, I want you to spring the cards
right in the middle of the headphones, on three.
Ready? One, two, three.
- [Murdo] Oh that's sick!
- Seven of diamonds?
- [Murdo] Yeah, that's cool.
- Yeah!
Someone famous is here and none of us know who he is.
- [Murdo] Might go ask him for a photo.
- [Man] Neighbours! - [Stephen] Neighbours!
- [Man] Let's give it to Neighbours!
(laughing)
- [Man] Or if you do this one...
(rapping and mumbling)
- What's going on?
I don't understand.
Alright so, I don't know.
Apparently the guy from Neighbours,
the guy from the TV show Neighbours?
He looks famous, I don't know who he is.
And then, Steve was just...
Having a great time singing the Neighbours rap.
I'm gonna end this video with that.
What is going on with today?
What's going on?
I mean, we can't peak from...
We hit Neighbours.
We gotta end it now.
Alright.
Cheers for watching.
Oh yeah, one last thing, one last thing before you go.
Oh you've left already.
Drums.
Yeah, so one last thing.
A lot of people have been asking me about busking advice
and people want to start street performing.
I've put together a tiny little...
Just a tiny little thing on busking amps
and the best amp to get,
because I think you need an amp when you start busking.
If you're interested in that at all,
check the link in the description and click on that.
You can see the amps I recommend
especially when you're starting out.
One of the amps is only less than thirty dollars,
so that's pretty cool.
Because people ask me about, "What amp do you use?"
"What amp should I use when I busk?"
So link in the description if you're
interested in that at all,
and that is literally the end now.
Thank you!
(upbeat acoustic guitar)
♪ So give me one good reason why I...