This Guy ...

[joggerjayne]

This is Disco Pete.

Hello!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scarycrow/3947211910/

On the seafront, there's a bar called the Brighton Music Hall. It's just a bar, but they have live music all day, every day. So, obviously, it's a pretty jolly fab bar.

Anyway, Disco Pete is this guy in his 70s who goes there every day, and just stands there, doing this weird dance with his hands. He doesn't get any money, but people sometimes buy him a beer.

He is, by far, our jolliest, and most famous person.

[anneasquith]

ok :)

[jno]

there are old people in Brighton? Or just the one?

[mushroom25]

you might find him rather distasteful, but i'd venture more brightonians have heard of gus poyet than disco pete......

:-)

[tonyav]

Well I've heard of disco duck but never heard of disco pete.

[Tilly2]

He looks like a fun bloke.

[anneasquith]

ive heard of disco lights.

[joggerjayne]

Well, two, I think.

Normally, we send them to Hove, or Eastbourne.

But Disco Pete is a bit weird, so we let him stay. We like eccentrics.

Also, behind the Thistle Hotel, there's a tiny shop, about six feet wide, which sells hippy stuff like bead necklaces, and woollen bags. The old hippy guy who runs it, he's allowed to stay too.

[askyourgran]

We had a Dopey Dan the Drunkie, no-one ever gave him any money, he used to get up and sing 'My Way' his way, lasting half an hour if someone didn't get up and push him off the stage. He wasn't nearly as well dressed as Disco Pete. Just goes to show the difference between a happy Brighton seaside bar and a dreary pub in a Leeds suburb. :(

[joggerjayne]

Gus Poyet.

Gus Poyet.

Thinking, thinking ... nope, never heard of the nasty little rat.

Not that I'd know that he was a nasty little rat.

Gus who, did you say?

[tonyav]

!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORJbSXsMPqM

[joggerjayne]

Dopey Dan sounds jolly.

[tonyav]

Pete and a Mexican !.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ_5PLh1Qlc

[joggerjayne]

Crikey, tony ... that's the place!

And, obviously, that's Disco Pete.

He must actually be quite fit, because he can stand there all doing doing that weird arm waving dance.

[tonyav]

Hey jj, he moves his feet as well with that Mexican.

[joggerjayne]

He doesn't usually move his feet.

[Tilly2]

JJ, I like the sound of the little shop behind the hotel. Do they sell Dream Catchers there?

[tonyav]

Oh gawd.

[Ratty2E]

And all we've got is Gordon the tramp, who actually isn't a tramp at all.

[joggerjayne]

Dream catchers?

I don't know. Probably.

But there's a shop in North Laine that sells all Native American type of stuff, and they definitely have loads of them.

[joggerjayne]

I like the sound of Gordon The Tramp.