Thank God adverts don't stay on TV forever!!
Why?. Well, I've always liked Lucozade, the energy drink. It was my fuel of choice during my school football team playing days (we got to the U-18 Yorkshire Cup final and lost).
However, months after it finally got taken off, I am still horrified by their advertising campaign and the thought it actually happened, which featured a band of smug gits performing a song whilst rolling down a hill on skateboards. Now this wouldn't be too outrageous if it weren't for the fact that the song they were 'performing' is my absolute favourite song of all time; Buck Rogers by Feeder.
I couldn't escape this stupid bloody advert. It was everywhere. Every ad break these talentless hipsters shown up and butchered one of the greatest British Indie anthems of all time. So sod them. Sod them and sod Lucozade. It was and still is a crime against music, the only thing that satifies me is that this band are screwed to high hell, they will always be remembered as "that ad break band".
Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to sell crap between TV shows, by ramming it in our faces via our TV's though short films that are annoying as possible?!.
ANYHOW...... I read on a message board forum, which contained somebody's post who heard from a reliable source that Feeder were invited to appear in that ad, but they turned it down as they didn't want it to ruin their image. Grant Nicholas the band's frontman said at a gig in London "They ruined the song". If they did appear in that advert, I bet it would have done exactly the same thing CBB did for The Ordinary Boys, although record sales went up, their credibility soon went down to it's lowest ebb.
I also heard that the sh*te band in the advert, didn't pick this song and instead the advertising team at Lucozade did. Still, Feeder not wanting to appear must have been a huge blow to the campaign!hahaha!!.