I know I promised to regale our readers with tales of expense accounts and general tomfoolery but unfortunately we haven’t been able to fulfil either of our expectations. The mad rush by all to get things sorted for Sam’s timely holiday at the beginning of the week and then the overflow of workload left by his absence has led to a week of deadlines, pressure and enough frustration to shake a water filled Champaign bottle at.

The arrival of a new high-backed leather office chair made clear to all that all office chairs were not created equal. The surprising benevolence of some was starkly contrasted by thinly veiled envy of others. As in most instances the issue was solved by a mix pilfering from the lofty heights of authority and the placating allusion to leather office chairs for all.

Much of both Sam and Dave’s week was taken up by planning and holding interviews for the new job. Among the hypothetical challenges set to the interviewees was a question on how to market a particular new album. The album, which began as being “incidentally, not very good”, by the end of the second day of interviews, had become “atrocious” and “a creative disaster”: how on earth were these poor candidates going to pick up the pieces? Conversely, a situation hypothetically giving each candidate political influence over the music industry, somehow after seeing a dozen or so candidates came to grant absolute totalitarian power to change everything we hold dear. Such are the ravages of trying to fit all this in around an already busy week’s work.

As we all watched Sam leave the office for the sunny shores of Croatia we were more than aware that we hadn’t quite left us in the lurch. He declared to all that he would “leave his computer behind” as he was in need of a break, apparently his new Iphone 4 has enough computing power to more than keep tabs on the office goings on. In fact John, our de facto/temporary big cheese, was said to have heard an air hostess in the background of one of his conversations pleading with him, “I’m sorry sir, could you please turn off your phone. The flight is leaving”.

Once the banal tasks of filing receipts and updating stat records has been done, most of Nat’s week was dedicated to the telephone, you wouldn’t think it’d be this hard to convince people to jet off to sunny Adriatic coast for a music festival in the drab month of September, but it seems that way; Still plugging away trying to find brands to fly out to the sold out Outlook. Whilst also making sure everyone knows about Ekstravaganza 5 tonight at Corsica Studios, cocktails, BBQ, and the finest cosmic disco, techno tunes is there anything better on a Friday night?

Hugo was very pleased to get involved in nuts and bolts of a PR company from drafting press releases to brainstorming social media solutions for PR campaigns the learning curve doesn’t seem to flattening out any time soon, be he wouldn’t have it any other way.

The week for Mr Power (as he’s insisted we call him for the remaining couple of days) has mostly been spent getting the final bits and bobs in place for this weekend’s Soundwave Festival in Croatia, cursing his now unfathomable decision not to actually go out there and consoling himself with the fact that Corsica Studios summer party tonight should be almost as fun as a weekend on the Adriatic. When not busying himself with client work he’s been celebrating four years of his blog’s existence and poring over around half a dozen books on good social media practice to keep himself razor sharp…

So that sums up another week here at the UK’s most hardworking PR company, wishing everyone a good weekend and week ahead. Especially Sam who shouldn’t worry as we haven’t changed the locks…at all.

Till next time,

The Name team