Our Creative Assistant and occasional rock star Mel is on tour at the moment in the USA with her band The Clientele. She writes:

Hello!

Sorry it’s taken so long to send a hello to everyone; it takes a while to get settled into the strange pace of life of staying up till 4am, sleeping in, then spending the whole day in a smelly van until the next venue appears. It’s been great fun so far. Every gig is so different – we’ve had rowdy crowds, oh so quiet ones…one we even managed to blow up the sound system….well, I stamped on a cable in time to the music and blew a fuse! We’re in Memphis at the moment on our first gig free night since arrival. I think we’re off on a tour of Ardent studios where Big Star recorded – that band is so great. The record seems to be going down well, we’ve sold lots of merch and apparently are today number one download on emusic. Wahoo! Had great fun in Nashville, I knew more people in the venue we played than I do in London, Lampchop guys were there too, which was nice.

Creative people get awards. Planners occasionally get awards. But account people never get awards. Well, almost never. Pizza Hut created a special ‘Marketing Pride’ award for account director Rebecca Tickle, for service above and beyond the call. Nice job. I bumped into Darryl from Pizza Hut in our reception as he gave Rebecca the award (cuddly lion on plinth) and persuaded the pair of them to pose for a commemorative photo.

Note to any advertisers out there – this is the kind of surprising and thoughtful gesture that really does mean a lot to the team at your agency.