Comments on: Lord Mustard http://comics.edpinsent.com/2009/04/30/lord-mustard/ Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:41:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John Enright http://comics.edpinsent.com/2009/04/30/lord-mustard/comment-page-1/#comment-10661 John Enright Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:41:26 +0000 http://comics.edpinsent.com/?p=348#comment-10661 I worked in a pub in Soho in late 1980's, and Lord Mustard would occasionally pop in. He was definitely a presence, with the dingy morning suit (I think it was mustard-coloured with green trim) and hand-painted sign. You could not ignore him, because he was so strange-looking. He usually kept fairly quiet but would engage in small talk if you approached him. By this time he was decrepit and unlikely to dance very well. A customer told me that he had settled a lawsuit with Harrod's some years back, and part of the agreement was that he was allowed to busk (perform) outside Harrod's, whilst the store chased everyone else away. Can anyone verify the story I heard? Makes more sense that he was working on Oxford St. if I saw him in Soho. I worked in a pub in Soho in late 1980′s, and Lord Mustard would occasionally pop in. He was definitely a presence, with the dingy morning suit (I think it was mustard-coloured with green trim) and hand-painted sign. You could not ignore him, because he was so strange-looking. He usually kept fairly quiet but would engage in small talk if you approached him. By this time he was decrepit and unlikely to dance very well.

A customer told me that he had settled a lawsuit with Harrod’s some years back, and part of the agreement was that he was allowed to busk (perform) outside Harrod’s, whilst the store chased everyone else away. Can anyone verify the story I heard?

Makes more sense that he was working on Oxford St. if I saw him in Soho.

]]> By: admin http://comics.edpinsent.com/2009/04/30/lord-mustard/comment-page-1/#comment-26 admin Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:25:40 +0000 http://comics.edpinsent.com/?p=348#comment-26 Hi Richard Many thanks for the info and link! I had no idea Lord Mustard went back to the 1930s, but it makes sense from what I remember of seeing him in Oxford Street in the 1980s. Everything about his act seemed old school, apart from the fact that he was playing his old-fashioned music on a ghetto blaster. Who knows if he would approve my use of his name as a comic character, but I like to think he would have been as tough and resourceful as my imaginary Lord Mustard. Ed Hi Richard

Many thanks for the info and link! I had no idea Lord Mustard went back to the 1930s, but it makes sense from what I remember of seeing him in Oxford Street in the 1980s. Everything about his act seemed old school, apart from the fact that he was playing his old-fashioned music on a ghetto blaster. Who knows if he would approve my use of his name as a comic character, but I like to think he would have been as tough and resourceful as my imaginary Lord Mustard.

Ed

]]> By: Richard http://comics.edpinsent.com/2009/04/30/lord-mustard/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Richard Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:49:20 +0000 http://comics.edpinsent.com/?p=348#comment-25 Hi I had a chat to the real Lord Mustard in a pub in the early 90s - he was fairly incomprehensible. I discovered this evening that he appears in "The London Nobody Knows" with James Mason - his career goes back to the music hall in the 1930s. Died a couple of years ago - http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/search/1931535.Tap_dancing_busker_dies_at_97/ Hi

I had a chat to the real Lord Mustard in a pub in the early 90s – he was fairly incomprehensible. I discovered this evening that he appears in “The London Nobody Knows” with James Mason – his career goes back to the music hall in the 1930s.

Died a couple of years ago – http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/search/1931535.Tap_dancing_busker_dies_at_97/

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