(above: Barry does Dali on BBC3's Upstaged, photo by Deb Weinreb)
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We put Barry the Badger into a talent show called Upstaged run by Endemol and BBC3 describing him as 'a mad, musical, painting, stunt animal artist'. And to everyone's surprise he took it by storm. Acts needed to perform for 6 hrs inside a glass box and people voted online.
It is a rare event for such an offbeat act to do so well in a 'talent' show. Barry beat a down with it hip-hop act, a trendy cooking show and a heavy rock band. 95% of his lyrics and stunts were censored so the show was improvised from start to finish. That is 24 hrs inside a glass box in Bristol 'talking about nothing forever' (so the BBC are now getting all existentialist on our arses!)
The Arts council could not pay for it but BBC3 sure as hell could and did.
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