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  • A slap in the face

          I went to Albion the other day to do a bit of honest non-execing and found the door locked in my face. Hang on, I thought. Have they finally figured out that I'm a useless fraud and decided to keep me out of the agency at all costs ? Would there be people with placards saying “Go Home Henry” ? Well as it ...
    Posted to Steve Henry's Blog (Weblog) by steve henry on 16 Nov 2009

  • Schad

       Schadenfreude’s a lovely word , isn’t it ? I was reminded of it, reading Robert Harris’ review of Gyles Brandreth’s autobiography recently. Seeing the failure of Brandreth’s career to take off, Harris remarked that “even Richard Dawkins might start to believe there is a God”. I wish I'd said that. In a similar vein, a lot ...
    Posted to Steve Henry's Blog (Weblog) by steve henry on 09 Nov 2009

  • Seedy thoughts

     A few years ago I was thinking of setting up a club called  “Five Creative Directors Behaving Badly”. The idea was fairly explanatory in the title. I think the members were gonna be me, Robert Saville, Trevor Beattie, Dave Droga  and Robert Campbell. But rather than just getting p*ssed, there was another agenda, which was ...
    Posted to Steve Henry's Blog (Weblog) by steve henry on 02 Nov 2009

  • How to win agency of the decade

    Can I first of all congratulate Campaign’s picture editor for their work in last week’s issue ? The front page showed two images of Peter Mandelson - holding a bunch of bananas in one, and minus the bananas in the other. Where did Mandelson’s bananas go ? That’s got to be worth a Question Time in itself. Secondly, in the piece on awards ...
    Posted to Steve Henry's Blog (Weblog) by steve henry on 26 Oct 2009

  • Multiple ideas

      The best advice I can give you about pitching is this - brush your tongue as well as your teeth. Because 75% of the microbes which cause bad breath are on the tongue. And 75% of pitches are about personal chemistry, not about ideas. I remember when we used to get the intermediaries in to HHCL to talk about pitching. One of them told a ...
    Posted to Steve Henry's Blog (Weblog) by steve henry on 18 Oct 2009

  • Life's a pitch and then you die

    I was fascinated by the story of Tom Williams, the Harlequins winger who went off with a fake injury, to allow another player on. We once pulled the planner Dave O'Hanlon out of a pitch with a fake ruptured colon. Because there was a fear that his statistical analysis of the market would be too provocative. We didn't have any blood ...
    Posted to Steve Henry's Blog (Weblog) by steve henry on 12 Oct 2009

  • Young Bucks

      A journalist in Creative Review (who went on to write for the Sunday Times, so he was no mug) once described me as having the worst dress sense of anybody in advertising. It was a fair point, and one I was reminded of when I went to talk to Bucks College in High Wycombe last week. Because students are always scruffier than you ...
    Posted to Steve Henry's Blog (Weblog) by steve henry on 05 Oct 2009

  • MM

      I think the mistake I made in the last blog was in trying to talk about something very complicated while under the influence of very strong dental anaesthetics.   The blog was a complete mess.   And I apologise to my loyal readership of one man and his dog. (Apparently the dog in question is the one which featured on X ...
    Posted to Steve Henry's Blog (Weblog) by steve henry on 27 Sep 2009

  • Confused ? You should be

    A flyer is lying on my kitchen table, which reads like this. “Hosted by Jackie Brambles, the event celebrates inspirational women. Attendees will include ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star Brendan Cole”. Now that has confused me. Which is appropriate really – because this blog is about confusion. Partly because I’ve got an abscess on my tooth ...
    Posted to Steve Henry's Blog (Weblog) by steve henry on 23 Sep 2009

  • What is wrong with this picture ?

       I'm thinking of bringing out a t-shirt which reads "Polly Perkins is a tw*t". Although the asterisk is only there for Campaign's lawyers. You may know who Polly Perkins is. She's been in the papers a bit recently, because she was the reader at Faber who turned down Lord of the Flies for publication, ...
    Posted to Steve Henry's Blog (Weblog) by steve henry on 15 Sep 2009

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