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Thread #148936   Message #3463022
Posted By: bubblyrat
08-Jan-13 - 05:30 AM
Thread Name: Will old beer adverts become folksongs?
Subject: RE: Will old beer adverts become folksongs?
Ah ! Titbread Wankard ! That brings back memories ! And drinking vile Watneys Red Barrel in Gibraltar after a year on Tiger ,Swan, Castle,and San Miguel ( what songs / tunes of they ,pray ?? ).

         But I digress ! What of cider ,say I ? Every time Nicola (for such is her name ) says " We're going shopping ; let us get our coats " , I inexplicably burst into " Coates comes up from Somerset ,where the cider apples grow !" ---- such is the subliminal power of advertising . The major success story ,of course , is the Magners advertisement ; I often watch it on "youtube" , performed by the great man himself ,with Sharon Shannon ,Donal Lunny , and other Irish luminaries --marvellous !And definitely established in the folk world , I feel ?