The frustration of Sergeant Pepper

Posted by Simon Parke, 20 Jun 2017

Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band is now fifty years old.

It tops most charts as ‘The greatest album ever’...a remarkable achievement of both song writing and production.

But for The Beatles, it was born out of frustration rather than excitement…

Now that's what I call satire

Posted by Simon Parke, 19 Jun 2017

Some satirists deliver gags; Frankie Boyle also delivers gags, but they are hollow-eyed and bleak, with a back drop of existential terror and despair.

Laugh, by all means. But you may also want to shoot yourself.

His work reminds me of the 17th century philosopher, Thomas Hobbes…

Peter the seagull ups his game

Posted by Simon Parke, 19 Jun 2017

Did Peter the seagull train in marketing?

There’s something about his ability to stay in my eye line, to keep the product - him - endlessly visible.

(He does have two small children to support.)

So I’m aware of him now on the woodpile looking at me through the study window, I have mentioned this before…