Colin
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | PR Consultant |
| Location | Croydon, Surrey, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Working mostly in biz-to-biz PR since 1992, Colin has other strings to his bow: technical advertising, direct mail, internet copywriting ... internal and external events, corporate and product literature, newsletters... speechwriting, media analysis, product launches... His main focus has always been PR, but typically within integrated marketing communications: talk to him about ATL, EDM or SoMe and he responds intelligently. Still, with client coverage from countless trade and technical publications to radio, television and national press, media relations through smart content is probably still his specialist subject. Life before PR? After six years' military service (in signals intelligence), he earned a mature BSc (Hons) in IT from Salford University before three years at McGraw-Hill, where he had well over one million words published as writer and editor, in 30+ countries. Since 2007, he has worked for a specialist communications agency serving the building, construction and building services sectors. He directs the PR elements of integrated client programmes, but is increasingly introduced as 'Head of Content' rather than anything else. |
| Interests | Reading, cooking, television documentaries, driving, music, Daily Telegraph crossword, barbecues, Bath City FC, St Louis Cardinals, Manchester United, following a chocolate Labrador around the country park... |
| Favorite Movies | Casablanca, GoodFellas, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Shawshank Redemption, the Producers, Road To Morocco, The Cruel Sea, Jailhouse Rock, Zulu, The African Queen, The Green Mile, The Great Escape, King Creole, The Italian Job, The Blues Brothers, The Caine Mutiny, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, National Lampoon's Animal House, The Untouchables, Full Metal Jacket, Cool Hand Luke, The Wild One, The Cincinatti Kid, In Which We Serve, Airplane!, The Ipcress File, Loving You, A Matter Of Life And Death, Shane, Genevieve, Papillon, Hans Christian Andersen, In The Heat Of The Night, Four Weddings And A Funeral, Saving Private Ryan, Jungle Book, Dirty Harry, School For Scoundrels, Men In Black, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Fiddler On The Roof, Reach For The Sky, The Girl Can't Help It, Glengarry Glen Ross, Rebel Without A Cause, Field Of Dreams, Chicken Run, 12 Angry Men, Some Like It Hot, The Bucket List, Blazing Saddles, King Creole, Carry On Sergeant, Good Will Hunting – and they’re just the first 50 or so that came to mind... |
| Favorite Music | Dale Watson, Elvis, Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Merle Haggard, Sex Pistols, Stiff Little Fingers, Eagles, Johnny Cash, Meatloaf, Undertones, Elgar (esp. the cello concerto), Slade, Matt Monro, Hal Ketchum, Dwight Yoakum, Edith Piaf, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bon Jovi, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Bruce Springsteen, Seekers, Bob Dylan, Louis Armstrong, Dvorak, Ella Fitzgerald, Ruts, James Taylor, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Garth Brooks, Mamas and Papas, Aretha Franklin, Simon and Garfunkel, Platters, Drifters, Rolling Stones, Tom T Hall, Joe Brown, Z Z Top, Dr Feelgood, Squeeze, Joan Baez, Meat Loaf, Carpenters, Fleetwood Mac, B B King, Rod Stewart, Bee Gees, Glen Campbell, Specials, Four Tops, Queen, Madness, Andy Williams, Frankie Laine, Tony Bennett, Brook Benton, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Dr Hook, Statler Brothers, Lonnie Donegan, Buddy Guy, Doobie Broothers, Marty Robbins, Elvis Costello, Conway Twitty, Bobby Darin, John Denver, U2, Luciano Pavarotti, Elton John, Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music, Ray Charles, Righteous Brothers, Ben E King, Alvin Stardust, Santana, Dolly Parton, Eddie Cochran, Roger Whittaker, Monkees, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Beautiful South, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Eric Clapton, J J Cale, T Rex, Willie Nelson, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Kenny Rogers, Jam, Police, Billy Joel, David Allan Coe, Chuck Berry, plus another 100 or so without difficulty, if pushed... |
| Favorite Books | Favourite books is a moveable feast, but there are a handful I've read many, many times each: 'Tiger Squadron' by Ira Jones, 'Up The Organisation' by Robert Townsend, 'Papillon' by Henri Charriere, 'Chickenhawk' by Robert Mason... But, favourite books? 'Favourite authors' would be a more meaningful and possibly shorter list, so here goes with the first 50 or so to pop up: Stephen King, Raymond Chandler, John Mortimer, Bill Bryson, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Stephen E. Ambrose, Douglas Adams, R. F. Delderfield, John Steinbeck, Tom Sharpe, John Grisham, Jeremy Clarkson, Michael Connelly, Frederick Forsyth, John Le Carré, A. J. Cronin, Lee Child, Joseph Wambaugh, Michael Dobbs, James Lee Burke, John Lescroart, Ed McBain, Scott Turow, P. G. Wodehouse, Gerald Seymour, Val McDermid, Guy Bellamy, Linda Fairstein, Denis Lehane, Jonathan Kellerman, Lisa Gardner, Thomas Harris, Michael Chrichton, John Sandford, Robert B. Parker, Mike Ripley, Robert Crais, Isaac Asimov, Mark Billingham, James Patterson, Jeffery Deaver, David Baldacci, Karin Slaughter, Nevil Shute, George MacDonald Fraser, Alex Kava, Nelson DeMille, Steve Martini, John Irving, W.E. Johns, Len Deighton, Greg Iles, many others... |