CONVERSATION EVENT & BROADCAST / 2015 - present
Broadcast Bartender is a conversation event that borrows from the traditions of the public house - a building which caters for ordinary people to meet and talk - to provide an alternative to the more formal modes of hosted conversation.
Initiated by artists Toby Lloyd and Andrew Wilson in 2015, Broadcast Bartender invites 5x Guest Drinkers and 1x Guest Bartender to talk freely for approximately 2hrs from a fabricated public house environment.
This recorded conversation is then released as a radio broadcast.
Broadcast Bartender (installation), &Model, 2015
“Like most pub talk, Broadcast Bartender is intentionally improvised, enabling the conversations to veer off into surprising or unsuspected areas, at any time”
SNAP Broadcast Bartender (Installation), East St. Arts, 2017
Below: Listen to Broadcast Bartender podcasts:
DO WE NEED A NEW PUBLIC HOUSE?
&Model / Leeds / October 2015
Guest Bartender: Angela Gabriel, Labour Councillor for Beeston & Holbeck
Guest Drinkers: Deborah Davies, Primary Teacher
Lester Drake, Assembly House Director
Julia Heslop, Artist and PHD Candidate
Nicola Greenan, East St. Arts Director
Mike Love, Together for Peace Founder
FABRICATING THE SOCIAL
&Model / Leeds / October 2015
Guest Bartender: Nick Malyan (Empty Shop Co-Founder, Durham)
Guest Drinkers: Amelia Crouch – Artist and Writer
Christie Hill – Arts Producer and Souping Founder
Derek Horton – Curator and &Model Co-Founder
Tim Jones – LS14 Trustee
Karen Watson – East St. Arts Co-Founder and Artistic Director
EU Broadcast Bartender: East St. Arts, 2016
EU Broadcast Bartender: East St. Arts, 2016
LISTEN: click image to listen to EUBB
EU BROADCAST BARTENDER
East Street Arts / Leeds / June 2016
Guest Bartender: Mick Ward, Gad about Town
Guest Drinkers: Geofrey Brown, EUCLID Director
Mark Hill, Green Leaves Campaign
Bertie Russell, Research Fellow at Centre for Sustainable Futures
Pauline Mayers, Choreographer and Theatre Maker
Isabel Mota-Quinn, Political Scientist
Constructing a Blind Pig: The NewBridge Project, 2016
LISTEN: click image to listen to CABP/Holbeck
CONSTRUCTING A BLIND PIG
The Holbeck WMC / Leeds / 2016
Guest Bartender: Nicola Greenan, East St. Arts Director
Guest Drinkers: Simon Bradley, Artist and Oral Historian
Martin Dean, Council Area Leader for South-East Leeds
Ruth Granger, Support Worker
Kenny Saunders, Chair of Hunslet Carr Residents Association
Julie Tomlin, Journalist
LISTEN: click image to listen to CABP/NBP
CONSTRUCTING A BLIND PIG
The NewBridge Project / Newcastle / 2016
Guest Bartender: Shon Faye, Writer, Presenter, Artist, Comedian and Activist
Guest Drinkers: Victoria Armstrong, Disability North Chief Executive
Nini Ayach, Collaborative Theatre and Puppetry Artist
Ellie Stamp, Artist and Theatre Maker
Maxine Davis, Writer
Chris Erskine, Political Activist
SNAP Broadcast Bartender: The NewBridge Project, 2017
SNAP Broadcast Bartender: East St. Arts, 2017
LISTEN: click image to listen to SNAP BB
SNAP BROADCAST BARTENDER
East St. Arts / Leeds / 2017
Guest Bartender: Alaric Hall, Lecturer at School of English, Leeds University
Guest Drinkers: Onno Bockhove, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at University of Leeds
Rose Gibbs, Artist
Jessie Jacobs, Political Activist
Sanchez Payne, ex-footballer and Radio Leeds Presenter
Jack Simpson, Hyde Park Book Club founder
LISTEN: click image to listen to SNAP BB
SNAP BROADCAST BARTENDER
The NewBridge Project / Newcastle / 2017
Guest Bartender: Lester Drake - Assembly House Director
Guest Drinkers: Rene McBrearty - Artist
Sheena Revolta - Photographer, Writer, Performer, and Curator
Lauren Conway - Education undergraduate at Durham University
Maggie Etheridge - Maggie has a account former Lecturer at New College Durham
Gordon Douglas - Artist
Solidarity Economy Network Broadcast Bartender: Newcastle University, 2019
SOLIDARITY ECONOMY BROADCAST BARTENDER
Newcastle University, Newcastle 2019
Guest Bartender: Alison Merritt Smith, Dirctor Shieldfield Art Works
Guest Drinkers: Rebecca Huggan, Director, The NewBridge Project
Phoebe Bachman, Philadelphia Assembled
Kai Javed, Sexual Harassment Adviser, The Angelou Centre
Pippa Kendall, Trustee Comfrey Project
Roweena Russell, Byker Community Centre
Below: listen to Toby Lloyd and Andrew Wilson talk about Broadcast Bartender in it’s first outing at &Model, Leeds
