http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Portobello beach man: Police fears for safety" en Thu, 21 May 2026 22:00:37 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=3#post-227262 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 20:55:19 +0000 gembo 227262@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah sorry crowriver, I was not being clear. My point was that pitching a tent and a piano at porty to protest about commercialism of fringe is thirty years out of date.</p> <p>And strangely I have seen some good cheap stuff this year like in the olden days </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=3#post-227248 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 17:55:45 +0000 I were right about that saddle 227248@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oddly I was just mulling over suggesting a CCE ride out and East Lothian weekend beach camp in September.</p> <p>Presumably someone on here will have a clavichord with a trailer hitch? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=3#post-227247 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 17:53:18 +0000 crowriver 227247@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"When did the fringe become some massive commercial set up. "</p> <p>Years ago! Where have you been? </p> <p>I remember Arnold Brown's quip "Comedy is a serious business" back in 1990. Even then folk were complaining the Fringe was over commercialised. Different scale now of course, taking over any public space with "George" in it for a start... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=3#post-227241 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 17:44:13 +0000 gembo 227241@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When did the fringe become some massive commercial set up. Thank goodness this guy is protesting and has enlisted the Mitford descendent chap as advisor,</p> <p>Actually this year saw a really good show for a fiver and another with algo's doppleganger which was free (small donation at end). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-227231 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:48:21 +0000 chdot 227231@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Déjà vu!</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/artist-stays-on-beach-after-being-unable-to-find-accommodation-during-festival-1-4201540" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/artist-stays-on-beach-after-being-unable-to-find-accommodation-during-festival-1-4201540</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-192879 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 14:25:28 +0000 Min 192879@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>They may think they're sticking it to the man, but you can't stick it to Neptune. </em></p> <p>Hehehe. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-192873 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 14:03:45 +0000 kaputnik 192873@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a reasonably high tide about 30 mins before the event is due to start. There's not going to be much beach to party on for a while after that. It will be at low tide around 730PM.</p> <p>They may think they're sticking it to the man, but you can't stick it to Neptune. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-192861 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 12:48:09 +0000 Min 192861@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>promising “BBQ and <strong>sun all day</strong>”</em></p> <p>At least they have a sense of humour. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-192849 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 11:52:41 +0000 chdot 192849@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/illegal-portobello-beach-rave-will-go-ahead-1-3824527" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/illegal-portobello-beach-rave-will-go-ahead-1-3824527</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-165360 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:27:42 +0000 kaputnik 165360@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ARobComp the area is called Gypsy Brae. I don't know if it's a co-incidence, but there's often large traveller gatherings / festivals held there, kind of like an entmoot for caravans. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-165346 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:29:17 +0000 ARobComp 165346@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There was some sort of weird physio/exercise/pilates/other rack outside the tent last night alongside scattered chairs. Doesn't look very nice with it there.</p> <p>There were also 3 caravans (but no cars) along the other end of the promenade near the wee pump track. ASsuming these guys are travellers? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-165263 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:49:37 +0000 chdot 165263@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/portobello-piano-man-hit-with-2000-council-bill-1-3543342" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/portobello-piano-man-hit-with-2000-council-bill-1-3543342</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-163212 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:20:44 +0000 acsimpson 163212@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>He's been down there for a few weeks already. I suspect he moved straight there from Porty. Perhaps he's waiting for the right tide to let him push a piano across the causeway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-163166 Sat, 23 Aug 2014 21:40:36 +0000 gembo 163166@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Monday? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-163164 Sat, 23 Aug 2014 20:50:12 +0000 crowriver 163164@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wonder how long it will take before he is in the EEN once more? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-163156 Sat, 23 Aug 2014 17:34:03 +0000 gembo 163156@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That is the beach dweller for sure, green goatee. He is not on here as he is too ordinary for us. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-163154 Sat, 23 Aug 2014 17:23:59 +0000 recumboris 163154@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is he on this forum? Just been out along Cramond foreshore. His tent appeared has appeared here, did not look closely to see if there was a piano, also spotted man with green goatee in a car going down the hill past Cramond Inn. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-162856 Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:07:07 +0000 recombodna 162856@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a punk festivsl every year on cramond island.<br /> Has been since the late 80s. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-162746 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 22:03:58 +0000 gembo 162746@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also on that London 24 site in the side bar, chaos at Liverpool street as man carries golf clubs and pushes bike up the side of the track. And cyclist seriously ill after being hit by hackney cab on Oxford st. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-162744 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:57:22 +0000 chdot 162744@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A different sort of piano story -</p> <p><a href="http://www.london24.com/news/plans_to_drop_a_piano_off_26_storey_east_london_flats_blocked_by_concerned_residents_1_3678981" rel="nofollow">http://www.london24.com/news/plans_to_drop_a_piano_off_26_storey_east_london_flats_blocked_by_concerned_residents_1_3678981</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-161466 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:56:05 +0000 gembo 161466@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lucky they took the sound system as the rats did not like their banging tunes and left them alone. The rats out there are huge. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-161409 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:49:55 +0000 chdot 161409@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>MANY years ago ECA students organised an all night party on the island. </p> <p>People walked out before the tide came in, but the sound system was delivered by boat. </p> <p>The coastguard was warned that people were happy to be 'stranded'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-161408 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:14:20 +0000 I were right about that saddle 161408@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The far end of Crammond Island must be about a mile from the esplanade. Perhaps he could be helped to get the piano into one of the disused gun emplacements there?</p> <p>Sea view, passing tourists, not bothering anyone much...he might become the urban equivalent of Skye's now retired Leopard Man. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-161407 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:10:48 +0000 Stickman 161407@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Council chiefs said the musical tent breached the city’s management rules which prohibit camping within one mile of a public road.</em></p> <p>An interesting piece of selective application of the rules by the council there. </p> <p>They don't seem to enforce that particular rule too strictly on the kids who often camp down at Cramond foreshore or the campsite further east at Silverknowes. </p> <p>A convenient way of moving along a troublesome eccentric. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-161390 Thu, 07 Aug 2014 09:17:21 +0000 chdot 161390@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Council chiefs said the musical tent breached the city’s management rules which prohibit camping within one mile of a public road.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/portobello-piano-man-ordered-to-leave-the-beach-1-3501368" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/portobello-piano-man-ordered-to-leave-the-beach-1-3501368</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-160565 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:01:37 +0000 chdot 160565@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>"We're supposed to sit here and pontificate," Romilly tells Treuhaft when he arrives late on a bicycle, looking like a big, robust kid with his head covered in a Japanese scarf.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Great-writer-But-as-a-mother-Jessica-Mitford-s-2484696.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Great-writer-But-as-a-mother-Jessica-Mitford-s-2484696.php</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-160533 Mon, 28 Jul 2014 19:09:31 +0000 gembo 160533@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Pi-anarchy or public nuisance?</p> <p>There is a piano in st pAncras station that you are encouraged to play, maybe Haymarket could have one too? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-160522 Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:38:33 +0000 crowriver 160522@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The tent was still at the beach on Monday, and on Friday. No harm done I suppose, but probably time he moved on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-160503 Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:27:32 +0000 chdot 160503@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/portobello-beach-man-leaves-piano-at-haymarket-1-3490496" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/portobello-beach-man-leaves-piano-at-haymarket-1-3490496</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12418&page=2#post-152922 Sat, 10 May 2014 18:52:20 +0000 dg145 152922@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OK, so this helps me clarify my thinking on this. He's just a self-publicist out to squeeze the maximum from his 15 minutes.</p> <p>What a complete waste of time.</p> <p>Meanwhile, the serious business of real eviction from real homes continued at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday with over a 100 cases Calling in the 'rent' and 'mortgage' arrears Courts.</p> <p>Those are the numbers every week. That's the real story. </p>