S2-E7: Where Does Everybody Go Swimming?

Anyway, we're both part of the Friends of The Broadway Prestwick, and you can find out more about what that is at either the website, broadway.scot, or by searching Friends of The Broadway Prestwick on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn.

Before we welcome our guest from another cinema that has just succeeded in reopening after closure, Kyle, tell us about what is happening in our Broadway newsreel.

Yeah, of course.

So at the time of recording, again, our favorite phrase, um, we are just about to reopen our, The Broadway cinema experience for our May weekend, uh, pop-up museum only at this stage.

And that format will then follow in the June weekend as well.

We are very hard at work behind the scenes in developing and curating, if you like, an event program for The Broadway cinema experience at The Broadway across the summer.

So there'll be exciting announcements coming very soon on that front.

Um, otherwise, and by the time this podcast goes out, we will have announced this, um, we have...

Well, I don't know if you remember a few episodes back, um, for any regular listeners of the podcast, that we announced that The Broadway is now the only cinema in the U- well, not, not, no, sorry, not the UK, in Scotland to have a cinema organ, um, very specifically a Wurl-

Yes

... um, very specifically a Wurlitzer cinema organ.

Um-

Mm-hmm.

Our epis- our episode with Donald McKenzie.

Yeah.

Thanks again to Donald for coming on.

And you'll remember, if you listened to that episode, that, um, the Wurlitzer is quite a way away from, um, actually being able to play.

Uh, you know, we, we want to bring it back to the original, um, format and construct the full pipe chamber as it was, but in The Broadway, and that of course won't happen until restoration.

But as our, uh, other little coup for the project, we're now not only the only cinema in Scotland to have one cinema organ, we have two.

Goodness gracious.

Tell me more.

Uh, we've, [laughs] we've just welcomed, uh, another donated cinema organ, this time a much smaller Compton cinema organ.

Um, it's a Compton Melotone organ, and I think we're gonna need to leave the nerdy details about that for a future episode, 'cause there's, I'm sure there's lots that I still have to learn about m- the Compton organs and Melotone organs specifically.

But the beautiful thing is about this Compton is that it, yeah, essentially remastered and it's, it's now playable digitally.

So there's no pipework or anything that remains, but, um, which is unfortunate, I suppose.