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The onslaught of beer and music continues with no let up, despite the fact that I’m even less likely to be able to afford to buy a house this year thanks to the bleeding credit crunch - actually, hold that - what better way to drown my sorrows than with a pint of San Miguel…..
So, […]

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Tuborg lager has teamed up with Vice Magazine to run a summer comp to send a Vice reader out on assignment to some UK festivals, with the winner keeping a diary of the experience to go on a blog.
This isn’t a particularly original comp unfortunately; it feels incredibly similar to the Carling Postcard series of […]

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Following recent brand interest in comedy, London is set to have a new comedy event this year courtesy of Pimm’s, that most-English of drinks!
Pimm’s Summerfest will be taking place over five evenings at the end of August in Holland Park, London - a venue that usually hosts opera events, and is therefore pretty impressive. 
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The summer of 2008 will see another addition to the branded one-day ‘festivals’ taking place in London.  Alongside Innocent and Ben & Jerries comes the Subway Picnic Rocks event, taking place on Clapham Common on 5th July.
The line-up includes The Holloways, The Metros and Amy MacDonald and with tickets priced £14.50 I’m sure it won’t […]

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I have it on good authority that Guitar Hero are going to be doing some festival activity this summer with a long-term view, which is kind of good timing what with the recent launch of MTV’s Rock Band, which is also perfect festival-fodder.  And in related news, Guitar Hero is launching multi-instrument support for the […]

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Xfm are planning to put on and broadcast a number of gigs within a 24 hour period, to be called Xfm’s All Day Breakfast.  Which is a great idea.
BUT it does smack ever-so-slightly of Carling’s Live 24 events way back in 2006.  Which as a marketeer does make me think slightly less of Xfm for […]

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Orange have announced some details around their activity at this years Glastonbury festival.
The ‘Chill and Charge’ tent is back, although I’m slightly confused as they’re trialling a charger that uses kinetic energy generated by dancing to charge the phones.  So not sure if ‘Chill and Charge’ is the best name this time round if that […]

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Last year saw a new brand activation launched by Rizla, called the Rizla Invisible Players, which was based on a brand heritage discovery that in the 1920’s Rizla toured around a little van with a music troupe called the Invisible Players.

Anyway, I’m well pleased to see its back again for 2008 (still with the excellent […]

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It used to be that any thoughts of cider during the summer instantly invoked memories of the Strongbow Rooms (in all its guises throughout its long history) at most of the festivals that mattered.
Well, it looks like that reign has well and truly come to an end.
Gaymers Cider, part of the Constellation portfolio, has been […]

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Congratulations to everyone at brand entertainment agency, Cake.  They’ve been acquired by Havas, and will become part of the Havas Media division (which, if I’m not mistaken, includes KLP Entertainment), so expect to see some great examples of brand entertainment popping up in countries I’ve never heard of!

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