Never Sass A Busker: Crowd Turns On Man For Trying To Shut Down Live Music

18 April 2016 | 11:36 am | Staff Writer

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If you ever doubted Australia's love of live music then this story will warm your heart — an entire crowd of people have turned on a man complaining about the noise coming from local musician Declan Kelly's performance in Sydney yesterday.

Kelly was busking in Manly yesterday when a man who claimed to live in the area, approached him and demanded the music be turned down.

However, the man was soon forced to walk away (quite sheepishly, mind you), after the entire crowd cheered in favour of the music and Kelly carried on with his set to the delight of those watching the incident unfold. 

"Yep this just happened at manly market , lil ol me playing tunes,then aggressively told mid song to turn the Fff down. I gave him my calm response to step away though he would not," Kelly wrote in a Facebook post yesterday. 

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"One of those stubborn boring complaining types you know the 1% making it difficult on culture and progressiveness. Was gratifying having the crowd turn on him and tell him were its at ... 2016."

Check how it all played in a mobile-recorded video below.