Hear Music a ‘natural next step’ for the coffee behemoth and music retailer, says Starbucks boss. Sir Paul McCartney rumoured to be the first artist to sign to label Rosie Swash: Guardian Unlimited http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2032739,00.html
Just as a thousand liggers sharpened their patter to pass the clipboard test to slither into post Oscar parties, four days later in London I suspect the wannabes will try to assemble at Matthew Freud’s send off hurrah for his arch lieutenant, Kris Thykier. Tonight’s bash promises to mimic some of the sumptuous parties that…
Flyposting is a thing of the past. Thanks to Camden Council. Pete Strange, the oddly titled Boulevard Project Manager, Camden Council, managed to get Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) served on those heroic street guerrillas a couple of years ago that made our streets less interesting According to the Guardian at the time ” Camden employed…
From th Scotsman. PR expert Mark Borkowski said he believed the public appetite for such shows had not been sated. “The freak show was common in Barnum’s time and circuses were popular in the Coliseum,” he said. “This format has got the mixture of circus freak show, public humiliation and curiosity. As long as they…
I notice that David Brain, President and CEO, Edelman Europe has passed comment on his blog about who he would prefer to be the talking head for the PR industry. “No disrespect to Mark Borkowski or Max Clifford, but I’m so much more comfortable having the industry represented by a character who is as good…
Barack Obama’s presidential nomination campaign looked like it was steaming ahead perhaps a bit too smoothly. The headlines this weekend, “Obama ancestors owned slaves, a researcher found” http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/03/04/obama_ suggest that some dark force had a reason to throw a spanner in the bandwagon. Pals of mine in the U.S. had suggested Obama would be an…
The sexiest dude of the silent movies hyped by non other than the great Harry Reichenbach. How I would have loved him as a client, but unfortunately the publicist and the star fell out. Its suggested that there was a mighty crash of egos.
A full on PR meltdown, somebody with extraordinary image management should be employed to try and turn around the mess Italian football finds itself in, the scenes after last night’s brawl further exasperates the issues. Watch the scenes at last night’s game between Inter and Valencia. This clip shows the fighting that broke out after…