Half Alive: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious London Underground Busking Memoir

by Jack Dempsey, David Harrison (Illustrator)

Danny the Demon races into the underground. Beat up old guitar strung across his back, he takes four lightning strides past the ancient wrinkled newspaper seller with the bulbous purple nose and reaches the top of the old wooden escalator. He grabs at a handrail and leaps three at a time down the rickety moving steps. His grubby blond hair flies behind him like a horse’s mane. Matted and greasy, it hasn’t been washed for months. Neither has his body. Neither has his jeans, t-shirt or plimsolls. Danny is a scumbag busker and he’s late for his pitch.This is a fast-paced and hilariously entertaining comedy. Down in the London underground cavorting with the buskers that you’ve always seen and then wondered what they got up to after you had walked past them…

213 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 8, 2012

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