"i'd text all the musicians i know and we'd start a superband"
THIS is what's annoying me most at the moment, mostly because it's so idiotic. allow me to go off on one:
1) firstly, you in the advert, you don't half bear a striking resemblance to john power...hmm. mind if i call you john? well john, considering how long it's been since cast were around and how visible you've been since then, i can only assume this is a last chance tactic? sorry john, no-one wants to start a band with you. can you blame them?
2) *superband*? i'm guessing aybe you've got around 20 musicians in your phone. let's face it, you get 20 musicians playing in a superband and it's going to end up being like broken social scene. and nobody wants that; broken social scene were bad enough first time round.
3) i notice the tagline for this advert is "what would you do with free texts for life?" so, let me get this straight: you need free texts for life before you can afford to text a load of musicians to start a band. how are you going to afford all the equipment, practice room booking and other costs associated with being in a band? i don't realy think you've thought this through. or, was it that you weren't that bothered too before you got free texts? hmm, i don't really think you've got the commitment to get this band off the ground? sack it off, yeah?
4) once you've texted all these musicians, and they've replied with "sorry, i'm washing my hair?", how are you going to pester them and persuade them? something tells me that your texts will be very easy to ignore. in summary, give up now and stop being on all those adverts on the tube.
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Edible music player my arse
Please
...
...edible music player?
this thread has given me that burrrdehhh burdeh burr burr one2one advert music in my head
before one2one existed
there were adverts for something else called one2one. it might have been a national accident helpline sort of thing, but all i can remember was that their phone number was 0800 121 000, and it said it in a singsong voice on the advert
Telephone and Rubber Band by Penguin Cafe Orchestra?
tune.
ive not heard that particular one
but they all seem like wankers to me.
and im pretty sure 'free texts for life as long as you top up a tenner a month for the rest of your life' doesnt qualify as an amazing deal
i've never understood phone contracts in general.
grr, return pressed too soon
i mean, i send a few texts, make the odd phonecall, spend £6 or £7 a month and that's fine. text messages are so restrictive - we have the internet now - it might cost but it's got more on it than your phone and you can send messages and it's better and easier
contracts seem like a scam to me
but then, i hate mobile phones and the culture surrounding them, so i'm biased
is there any other breed of advert
as laden with arseholery as the mobile phone ad? No, is the answer. I can only imagine that the sort of people they're trying to attract, the sort of people who care about mobile phones, are a bunch of chuffing cunts
they should just confine their adverts to Clapham
^ this
so much
this advert annoyed me because
1) the people in the advert look so happy to have been asked suck a fucking inance question;
2) if i had free texts for life and limited myself to texting "wanna form a superband?" to the 20+ musicians i have the numbers of, that would be rather a waste of what would amount to about £2-3 worth of texts.
also he's a cheapskate for refusing to spend £2-3 on something he obviously wants to do
yes
and anyway, do you think any bands have ever been formed as a result of unlimited texts? Polyphonic Ringtone Spree?
Broken Social Screen
s'O2 Solid Crew
I ignored it once
but I'm not sure how long I can do that for.
u wana b in supabnd wiv me? got free txts innit
WAPdown
SMS-xpress
O2Unlimited
I'd like to add some more, as this ad has also annoyed me
5) why would you need to text them? can't you talk to them face to face or email them or something?
6) you look like a spack
7)i wouldn't want to be in your superband
8) what a lame way to start a band
9) you're getting deleted
i thought roping in a few unknown mates to play music
constituted forming a band. nothing super about it.
lol
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7739/fb1v.jpg
haha
i still maintain we are right though. HOW IS IT A SUPERBAND IF ITS JUST YOUR MATES
WTF?
I'm scared.
Haha
I like Jenna the best :)
what a horrendous cunt
hi
does anyone have this picture without the surnames blocked out? i want them for reference in case i get drunk and get home and my computer's still inadvisably turned on :D
I resent the idea that you'd have to be finished masturbating
to be on this website
brilliant
"How oh how can..."
Who the fuck speaks like that?!
Sometimes I forget that we're on the internet and other people can see us.
you know it's serious when people on facebook are talking about it
why do you give a shit?
I'd start a revolution
The other one annoys me
the guy with the ginger beard, why the hell is that amazing looking girl hanging around with him?
I'm off to masturbate in a darkened room.
In the words of David Byrne
My god, what have I done.
^ i this this whole thread
My 'truck' is not with the superband man.
It's more with that utter cunt on the television ad who wears his sunglasses tucked into his salmon pink yuppie shirt and reveals that, if given a lifetime's supply of free text messages, he'd 'Yah, I'd, er... probably start a revolution'.
I have a number of problems with this. The first is the implication that he'd only be arsed to start his revolution if he could save, what, £20 on his mobile phone bill. This man's obviously got such an earth-skewering, sun-exploding revolution planned that he can't be arsed to bother with it unless someone gives him £20 off the startup costs.
The second problem I have with this advert is related to the first, in that the man's obviously being rather flippant. I don't think this question demands a flippant answer. I don't think the man in the pink salmon shirt and the stupid sunglasses tucked in should be looking to use the advert as an opportunity to corral whatever cool points people still associate with the word 'revolution' for his own personal gorging.
My third problem is that he's cunt. My fourth problem is that he's got too much money.
<3
All of these issues are completely normal for rational-minded people.
Why is it only cunts who work in advertising?
The "good" news
is that there's going to be a series of ads featuring Josh. For the next twelve months.
Enjoy!
If that happy go lucky tosspot manages to make a 'superband' because of free texts..
I'll gargle his corporate spunk.
Also fucking annoying on that advert, the girls who think 'min boggling' is, like, totally, the most randomly hillarious thing ever. Drown yourselves.
the orange phone advert
with the fish in the ocean and oceansize music for nurses playing was lovely
This guy has obviously been googling himself to find this thread right?
that's so not cool man..
none of this is cool
not sure if this was part of the original advert (i only saw the bus shelter poster of the ad)
but this guy has a myspace page, and t-mobile (or whatever) are going to be following his progress in forming a band.
christmas #37 for sure.
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4200275#r4936722
i think i was more getting at
the fact that i've seen one of the folow-up ads (i think) and that the guy has a myspace page and everything
.
"The ads will follow his progress in forming the band, rehearsing, and eventually performing; and the only way to find out how successful he is, is to watch the ads... At this stage neither he nor we know how it'll all turn out - really!"
I hate our company.
Incidentally, he's on Twitter as well as myspace. JoshWard84 in both cases.
we should bombard his twitter with @'s referencing cast songs
why does he update his twitter from the web
surely he should be using some of his free texts for that.
actually there are a few txt updates there
why does he update his twitter from the web
surely he should be using some of his free texts for that.
So this is a real guy or an actor?
I'm not really that annoyed by any of the responses to the question
I'm more annoyed at the question, or rather, what it is implying- "free texts for life". They're not free, you have to top-up £10 a month to get them. Paying £10 a month for anything is not free, by definition.
TEXT THAT TO YOUR SUPERBAND JOHN. YOU'RE NOT COOL.
well
maybe ppl would want to be in josh's super band because he has free texts. He can like text all the promoters and stuff.. all the time, and it won't cost the band anything! How amazing is that! I'd totally be in a band if the lead singers got free texts. We'd be the coolest band in Staines.
Cooler than Hard-fi even?
My god, they were so cool, you could EVEN go into some trendy bar in London, where they serve one type of alcoholic drink and see nothing but bottles with their logo on, purely an earth shattering event doe everyone that visited.
mindboggling grrrr
i hate that advert
i also hate the one where the girl goes mindboggling haha dick!!!
so
is anyone else gonna join this facebook group...?
http://bit.ly/av1ax
I mean this with every ounce of my mind, body and soul
No.
oh god, it gets worse
i think i do okay at avoiding adverts - i don't have a tv, watching stuff online, and even that mostly bbc. i manage to mentally block out ads that appear on a page, so yeah, they don't bother me.
so what should i see while walking through Victoria Station this morning but Josh "I'm a cunt who looks like John Power" Ward's ugly gurnig mug manically grinning and clapping at me from that huge LED tv thing they've got.
incidentally, i've changed my mind. i'll start a superband with you, Josh. you can be the drums.
Nah
He looks more like a member of Northern Uproar. The bass player I think.
^ knows
I didn't realise the cunt from Toploader was in Northern Uproar
He's now in Chelsea's back four
they're going on your! the crazy cunts.
*tour
All I remember of these ads
is some really attractive woman who is with a guy (and she is way out of his league) and he says he'd text his grandmother or something.
yeah, and thank her for all the presents she'd ever given him.
What a wanker for never saying thanks to his nan
i know
nothing says i love more than a call made on free network minutes.
I know this guy
he's in an Oxford band called Alphabet Backwards
and we have a last.fm
http://www.last.fm/user/joshward84
and, look at his blurb:
"I was about to play a gig with my band (I play the bass) on Brick Lane in London, and they were filming little clips of people for t-mobile adverts. I reeled off a stream of consciousness about starting a superband (with the promise of £500 if I were to get on an advert!). Now I'm on posters all over the place, and they've just said that if I do start a band, they'd very much like to follow me around with cameras to see how I do :0) Today they've given me a little camcorder to film when they're not around. All in all, I'm having a really good time of it!! I'll still play in my other band but this is another project, a bit of an experiment. I'd love to meet as many of you as possible if you think we can play together! Just get in touch, I check myspace every day."
He likes thisGIRL AND Skindred?
<3
Don't take it to heart,
brusma's just annoyed because josh kicked him out of the SUPERBAND.
i'm a bit more at peace than two months ago when this was an issue
due to me not having to stare at his gurning face every time i'm walking through victoria station to work in the morning any more
It irks me even more
now that its been turned into a series of ads. They're awful.
Does anyone else think that Josh looks like an extended wheelbase version
of Zapsta?
I hate those adverts
I'd just text my pals, for free. And probably do one huge spam text to my whole phonebook so the novelty of megafreetexts would wear off.
hmm, you signed up to post this, eh?
which one of these are you: http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7739/fb1v.jpg ?
404 Not found?
That's not a great choice...
....
God aren't those people who stand on the left of escalators arseholes / *looks other way* / brusma you stink of BO
Someone at work has just informed me that she will be in Josh's superband tomorrow
Apparently she knows someone who is bestest friends with our Josh.
did anyone see charlie brooker's rant about this in screen burn on saturday? great stuff
for those of you who didn't, here it is:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2009/dec/05/charlie-brooker-screen-burn
Good news everybody!
The single was released this week! Available through iTunes, Amazon and Play (amongst others). It was playing on a loop yesterday in reception at work.
*sigh*
i'm going to kick josh in the ovaries
and you waited this long to tell us?
I was busy trying to gouge my ears out.
The next bloody logical step...
"T Mobile UK is to air a new user generated music commercial tomorrow as part of its ongoing 'Life's for Sharing' campaign. The commercial is a culmination of recently running ads which highlighted the use of free texts for life through one musicians venture to create a band. The song 'Come with me' is performed by the 1107 strong group Josh's Band which has been crowd sourced via text messages. The song is to be released as a single by Universal Records:
www.marketingweek.co.uk"
This really grinds my gears.
He's a goddamn liar too
He says on the new ads that all this was achieved by ONLY using his free texts.
What about all the fucking adverts on TV and the internet then, huh? So they didn't help at all, hmmmmm?!
I know!
And on the side of buses the ad tells you to get involved by going to his myspace site.
i hope he falls off a wall and breaks various bones, Luke Haines-style
I hope he falls asleep on his legs, Mark Linkous-style
Saturday night palsy?
You'd have to be a real idiot to do that...
as i said elsewhere
well done, josh. you used your free texts to form a super band and recorded something that sounds like noah and the fucking whale.
...
So you bought it then, huh?
The full cut of the new Josh ad is being broadcast tonight
9:30, Channel 4. T-Mobile've bought the entire ad break. Preliminary news suggests that Come with Me is selling quite well - as it should be with all the advertising it's getting.
I'm guessing it's not a cover of the Daddy/Page classic?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvA26p6wMYc
Without even looking, I'd be surprised
I'm not sure that Diddy aligns with T-Mobile's core brand values.
You know 'Come With Me'. It's the rap he did over Led Zeppelin's Kashmir
from the Godzilla stoundtrack. It's IMMENSE.
In that case, definitely not
Josh's song is more wet than IMMENSE
yeah with josh playing the powerchords halfway up his bass
jesus fucking christ
jesus fucking christ
jesus fucking christ
question: has anyone from DiS reviewed the single yet?
has anyone even /heard/ the single yet?
Yes, I enjoyed brusma's maraca solo
oh god you guys had a massive thread on this :D
josh, t-mobile and the concept of a trustafarian superband were for a good three months my Most Hated last year
Yeah
they looped it for a day in reception here back when it was released. It was shite and failed to break the top 40.
Here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMkm80GWDKM
shameless JAGGING
I don't work for T-Mobile any more*
*technically.
oh, so you just like the song?
:D
Couldn't possibly comment.
T-Mobile & Orange are now merged into a company called 'everything everywhere'. Still using both brands mind you, and it's pretty clear which one of those is targetted at most of DiS.
the new ones are even worse!
the 'all your sisters' one :S
I THINK HER NAME'S DEBRAAAAAAA
update
http://www.myspace.com/joshward84/blog
"
The whole advertising thing is over- it's been amazing fun, but now I'm out on my own! It's a good job I have you lot to help me out.
I'm actually escaping for a bit in a couple of weeks time- 5 weeks in India to check out the food, dance and theatre, all things that I'm a little obsessed with! The good thing is that I can bring back a rejuvenated self and plenty of ideas for the next project.
Next on the cards for Josh's Band isn't quite a musical venture, although it will play a part. I'm organising a complete arts festival that will take place in Hillingdon (London). The theme of the festival will keep the themes that were so popular in Josh's Band, and so involvement from whoever wants to be involved will be key!
It's in seriously early stages of planning at the moment, but I have confirmed a very nice outdoor venue, and have a head full of ideas. Expect singing, dancing, creative lighting, online hook-ups with friends from far away, live music stages and local food. Perhaps even some cider.
I'm looking forward to working with you all again, and finding new people to become involved!
xx"
JFC.
Josh is going to be head of HMV one day
I can just sense it.
CIDER
He MIGHT have CIDER! I'm in.
it's like IBM built a supercomputer with the sole purpose of designing
someone for me to hate and this is what it came up with.
Thanks IBM. Thanks FOR NOTHING.
...
"Expect singing, dancing, creative lighting, online hook-ups with friends from far away, live music stages and local food. Perhaps even some cider."
we have our zonino replacement, guise
Creative lighting
?
he's going to stand there in the dark
with a toch shining up from below his chin
and he's going to shout "I'M THE LEPRECHAUN!" over and over again..
^i'd quite like to see this
.
"The theme of the festival will keep the themes that were so popular in Josh's Band, and so involvement from whoever wants to be involved will be key!"
THEME
INVOLVEMENT
He's doing the most middle-class version of White Lines ever?
took me a while to get this
but :D
Date: 15 Feb 2010
I wonder how this big plan of his got on?
He's kind of blurred with Hamfatter in my mind.
In fact he should join Hamfatter if he hasn't already.
good lad
:D
Last seen on last.fm: Nov 2009
what happened to this lad
Old Blue Last, Tuesday 7pm, £5/£4adv