TfL Tube busker auditions held for first time since Covid

Transcript

00:00 [Music]

00:12 I'm at Southwark Tube Station, not normally where you'd come to hear live music, but just behind me

00:19 down these escalators, Transport for London is owning its first additions since well before

00:24 the pandemic, as it helps us for the next generation of tube buskers.

00:30 [Music]

00:37 I just hope and I hope that it went well, everyone seemed nice, some people walked by and enjoyed it,

00:42 no one said they hated it or anything, so I think it went well.

00:45 I'm really blown away with the quality of the music I've heard so far,

00:48 this is the first time the busking audition's ever been since the pandemic,

00:53 we've had about 450 people apply, so really like great can of energy for busking to get back on the underground.

00:59 About 280 buskers will perform to a panel of judges over the next 10 days at a number of

01:06 different tube stations, at stake is the right to win a pitch to perform to Londoners as they

01:13 make their way across the tube network, but there's an even bigger prize at stake, the cherry on the

01:19 cake if you like, because for the first time busker pitches will also be available on the Elizabeth Line,

01:25 the busiest rail line in the country.