We're delighted to see our great friend and fellow blogger Steve Henry has taken up a non exec post at Albion
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Steve joins Mandy Pooler on Albion's board. Mandy is a dear friend of ours too. Not to mention one of the greatest names in media. Years ago when Mandy and Robert both worked at WPP, we did joint speeches at conferences on the future of media. It seems so long ago now.
Anyway, according to Albion's press release, 'Steve's role will be to mentor Albion’s creative
director Nick Darken and his team and help take the agency’s creative
output to a new level.' Excellent.
It's great to see Steve getting back involved and rolling his sleeves up. There is no greater talent than Steve.
However, it seems we've upset Albion recently. Something we said. And for that we're sorry.
Consequently they've been twittering away about what a couple of old plonkers Garry and I are. Someone's even opened a fake twitter account in our name and is sending abusive tweets. (Obviously we can't be sure that's Albion, but understandably we have our suspicions.)
In normal circumstances we wouldn't give a monkey's what Albion said about us. We're big enough, and ugly enough. But as two of our best mates are on their board, it would be a shame for there to be bad blood.
Perhaps once you've got your feet under the desk Steve, you'd like to bring the guys at Albion over to one of our bloggers' breakfasts.
You never know, they might even find they like us.
