Anti-consumerist reverend Billy, of NY's Church of Life After Shopping, was banned from going near Starbucks' American outlets. So last week he took the protest across the Atlantic. Until an irate coffee drinker hauled him up
Anti-consumerist reverend Billy, of NY's Church of Life After Shopping, was banned from going near Starbucks' American outlets. So last week he took the protest across the Atlantic. Until an irate coffee drinker hauled him upControversial New Yorker the Reverend Billy aka Billy Tallon came to UK's Norwich with his Church Of Life After Shopping to spread his message of anti-consumerism to the customers of Starbucks and was greeted with a clear message of where he should stick his dog collar.
Banned from going near any of the coffee chain's outlets in the United States, he descended upon the cafe yesterday afternoon, accompanied by his green-robed acolytes the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir to shout out his message through a megaphone to bemused and irritated customers.
However, one young man did not take too kindly to having his afternoon coffee disturbed and, far from seeing the funny side of it, confronted the comical preacher as he shouted out his message dressed like an evangelical Elvis.
The customer grabbed Billy by the lapels and shoved him out of the store, much to the delight of onlookers.
The Church of Life After Shopping is a project of The Immediate Life, a New York-based arts organisation "using theatre, humour and grassroots organising to advance individuals and communities towards a more equitable future".
