Nostalgia and Alcohol Adverts

Right, so here's a bit of nostalgia for you - and we all love a bit of nostalgia...

10 years ago, when growing up with my mum and brother, my elder brother and I realised there were an abundance brilliant adverts on TV. Not just that, but we noticed they were all for alcoholic drinks.

We christened this ( say, 6-month period) the "Golden Age" era of adverts, purely because there were just so many high quality ones doing the rounds. All of them extremely funny, too.

So a few weeks back now, I decided to try and hunt down some of these adverts, which I thought would be an impossible task, due to the shift from crackly old VHS tapes to glimmering DVD discs - I was afraid no one would have kept any of these tapes and they would fade away in the endlessness of time...

To my joy, however, I actually did manage to find not one, but 6 of these adverts online through YouTube. This wasn't easy; since I didn't know exactly what adverts I was looking for - or indeed the year until I found them - I had to rely heavily on trawling through literally hours of uploaded ad breaks that had found their way onto the internet.

This video below is my personal favourite and brought a smile to face when I remembered this beauty:

I will upload the other 5 in a countdown fashion when I have the time, but now would like to show you my current favourite ad on TV at the moment.

This advert isn't funny as such or even witty in any way; it's just very stylish and cool. I think I secretly want to the the guy in it:

The fascinating thing is that alcoholic adverts still seem to have it, even 10 years on...