Wednesday 14 April 2010

My Dream Job.

I've decided that my dream job would be to become an inventor of new and interesting ideas for band merchandise. I reckon I'd be really good at it. I've come up with some ideas, and I would appreciate it if you let me know what you think of them, coz I'm thinking of going on Dragon's Den's next series to try and get some funding. Here are my ideas so far:

For Spiritualized - 'Spiritual Eyes'.
'Spiritual Eyes' are contact lenses that when placed upon the eyes make everything look like it's a ghost.

For Radiohead - 'Radio Heads.'
DAB Radios that look like each band members head. They would have open mouths where the sound would come out.

For Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Untitled Toy'
You know those toy cars that you pull back and let go and they drive off? Well, this would be like one of those, only instead of it being a car, it would be a figurine of a man who is an emperor. And black. And when you've pulled back and let go, it moves really fucking quickly (at the speed of God if you like).

For Sweep The Leg Johnny - 'Leg Broom.'
The leg broom would be just like a regular broom, but the staff would be fashioned to look like a leg, and the bristles of the broom would protrude from the bottom of a shoe at the end of the leg.

For TEETH!!! - 'False TEETH!!!'
'False TEETH!!!' would basically be a porcelain figurine of the band at a gig. There would be a button on the base of the figurine that when pressed would cause a recording of a TEETH!!! song to play, but the recording would be of ANOTHER band covering TEETH!!! rather than the original itself.

For Portishead - 'PortaSheds.'
Like a portaloo, but a shed.

For Youthmovies - 'Youth Movies.'
Did you ever see the film 'Son Of Rambow'? If not, you should. It's great. Anyway, in it some kids film their own recreation of the film 'Rambo'. This idea is basically stolen from that. Famous films, remade starring only kids. Alongside a remake of Bugsy Malone starring only adults.

For The Young Knives - 'Young Knives.'
Safety knives for kids.

For Holy Fuck - 'The Holy Fuck.'
Sex dolls made to look like famous religious figures.

For The Dubliners - 'Dubliners.'
Basically what would happen is, I would take someones copy/copies of any album/s anyone had by The Dubliners, smash them up, and give the person a copy of James Joyce's 'Dubliners' to read instead, because its far far better than anything that shite band have ever done.

For Yeasayer - 'Naysayer.'
An album of covers of Yeasayer songs by people who don't like Yeasayer.
(And before anyone says anything, I DO like Yeasayer.)

That's what I've got so far. What do you reckon?

4 comments:

BITCHES said...

ALL SOUNDS EASY - WHAT YOU GOT FOR BITCHES?XXXXXXX

Pipsywoo said...

Definitely interesting. I've sent it to the merch company we work with...you never know, Radio's shaped like band members' heads, might happen?!

Pipsywoo said...

P.S. a response from Waste/Sandbag:

Hehe. That's genius and a perfect example of post irony. You must put him in touch with our production team!

Mr Axl said...

HA! Sweet! That's awesome.