Welcome to the Busking Chase!

If you have just joined, welcome to the Busking Chase, where I look left, look right, look left, look right (pun intended), for busking performances.

The previous season, which lasted between 18 December 2023 to 18 January 2025, began with Evan Goh's busking session at Fusionopolis@one-north, and had covered over 20 buskers, young and old, from guitarists to keyboardists, and from aspiring musicians to well-known competition participants, at around 20 locations from Woodlands to Marina Bay, and from Holland to Paya Lebar. These buskers may be seeking a brighter career path in music or just want to share their art with the public. Over 100 reels have been shared through my Instagram profile, from the classic 60s to the latest hits.

In 2025, I made a bold move to move the Busking Chase and the Gig Chase over to blog form for new seasons. It's not that I am quitting social media entirely, it's just that I have become more disillusioned with social media today. Simply put, the era where you can safely scroll through posts, feeds or stories, I feel, has passed. To me, social media is gradually degrading to the point where misinformation, "rage bait" and AI slop can appear on social media feeds almost every day. And social media, at times, can be distracting and addictive, with loads of content that can quickly get buried by new ones.

That is why I created this blog to share my busking and gig chases straight to you. Here, not only you can view reels of songs I have chosen, but also photos from each chase. Each blog post will, no doubt, be longer than the Instagram post, but also more in depth. Also, I would like to slow down a little, move away from the pressures of social media, and publish blog posts at my own time and own pace.

What to expect?

• Short snippets will still be featured on my Instagram profile (@wj_teng_200), though a handful of reels will be posted in full. The main action, however, will now move to this Ghost blog, where I continue looking left and right for busking performances, or showing up at gig performances.
• Season 2 has featured its first-ever guzheng performer, and hopefully we might cover other buskers performing other instruments other than the common keyboard or guitar. We will also cover other buskers not featured in Season 1, some of which are famous in their own right, in addition to newer buskers.
• For the first time, buskers specializing movement, street theatre as well as visual arts will be on the Busking Chase. Not all buskers are musicians themselves - you might find the occasional circus performer or caricaturist performing at a busking spot near you. Back on Instagram, I have not featured a non-musician busker, though this time we are going to look at them and find out what they can do.
• After filming mostly portrait reels for my social media (where the main action is moving away from), some reels will be filmed in landscape. Landscape reels are better for group shots, and can accommodate busking groups with two or more members.
• The aim is to run Season 2 for at most four years, all the way until latest January 2029, with signature songs (those "first impressions") put in the front, happier and not-so-emo songs in the middle and very emo ballads later on.

So, join me in the new season of the Busking Chase, where no song request is considered too high!

DISCLAIMER: I am not the one responsible for the audio in the video; this audio is made by this guy named Nashrul Merza, who made this hit remix made famous by the Straits Times. If you followed the 2025 General Election coverage, you may have seen/heard this "Left Right" (originally performed by XG) remix featuring two rather well-known politicians - one with off-key singing but went viral for his rendition of a hit Chao Chuan song, and another who can beatbox (which I feel, he can be a busker himself if he weren't a politician) and later became an NCMP.