No Beer Comes Near

Colour television advertisement for Draught Guinness starring The Chieftains. Advert opens with close-up view of bodhran skin followed by close up view of foam on top of a pint of Guinness as a voiceover begins: ‘The beat of the bodhran, the cream of the head, the unmistakeable taste, the unmistakeable sound’. Shots of the Chieftains playing a daytime concert under a tensioned fabric structure at the Knoxville World's Fair and playing as a group in a studio interspersed with shots of the band enjoying Draught Guinness in O'Neals Balloon Bar and Restaurant in New York. Martin Fay is recognised by and signs autographs for two ladies, one of whom is wearing a Guinness t-shirt, outside the bar. Individual to-camera pieces by Paddy Moloney, Matt Molloy, and Sean Keane. Advert concludes with view of a pint of Guinness in a branded tulip glass bathed in a spotlight. Caption and voiceover: "No beer comes near". Agency: Arks Ltd Production companies: Arks Advertising, Morris, Russell, Avis (Windmill Lane), Ads On Film Director: Tiernan MacBride Producer: Ward Fleming Camera: Bestick Williams, Victor Purcell, Seamus Corcoran Make up: Toni Delany, Joan O'Hare Filmed 24 July 82 (Slane concert); 8 & 10 Sept. 82 (Church of Ireland Hall, Rathmines); 9 Sept. 82 (Windmill Lane studio; Knoxville World Fair; O'Neals Baloon, New York City; 12 Jan. 83 (Film Lighting Facilities Studio, Sandyford Industrial Estate [Sean Keane & Kevin Coneff]) Cast: The Chieftains Isabel Grandin - bar girl (New York) Greg Bauer - bar man (New York) Tom Cashin - bar customer (New York) Jan Stickley - girl on street (New York) Sonja Stuart - girl on street (New York) Diane Erickson - bar customer (New York) Doug Stark - older counter customer (New York) Voiceover: Niall Toibin Music: specially composed by The Chieftains

Colour television advertisement for Draught Guinness featuring the band, Clannad, in a concert setting and composing the song "Into the Dark". Advert opens with views of Amsterdam at night before camera zooms in on exterior shot of the Concertgebouw building with a Clannad banner hanging outside. Dissolve to view of band onstage as Pól Brennan introduces the next song by saying: "This song is about a famous pint, it's called 'Into the Dark' and we hope you like it". Stage morphs into a pint of Guinness, with the band standing on its head. View of Clannad members on a bridge in Amsterdam before they make their way to a nearby bar with a Waterford tankard Draught Guinness sign hanging outside to join Ciaran Brennan sitting at the bar. Brennan voiceover "You never know how good a pint can be until you've had a pint of Guinness." Brennan picks up a pint of Guinness in a branded tulip glass, saying "Now that's what I call a pint, beautiful" before taking a sip. Advert concludes with view of band finishing performance on stage as Pól Brennan turns to the other members and says "I think they'll like it". Final caption and voiceover: "No beer comes near". Filmed: 8 July 1985 (Wicklow Head), 9-12 July 1985 (Amsterdam, concert) & 17 January 1986 (band at bar) Director: Gerry Poulson, Productoin company: Gerry Poulson Associates, Camera: Brendan Maguire (Wicklow Head, Amsterdam concert) & B. Williams (band at bar), Special effects: Geoff Axtell (GAX) Laboratories, February 1986, Sound: Windmill Lane, 4 March 1986, Music: Clannad, Voiceover: J. Ryan, Agency: Arks Ltd.

Colour television advertisement for Draught Guinness starring Elkie Brooks. Advert opens with view of jet's nose emblazoned with the signature of Elkie Brooks followed by brief view of Brooks singing at a microphone. Freeze and cut to image being pasted up as outdoor posters. Cut to view of Brooks descending from private jet alongside a man holding a dog on a leash and greeting fans. Shots of pints of Draught Guinness in tulip glasses and bottles of Guinness Extra Stout interspersed with shots of Brooks leaving the Shelbourne Hotel, shopping, and drinking with friends. To-camera piece by Brooks saying: "Two things come very naturally to me. Singing the blues and sinking a Guinness." Advert concludes with shot of Brooks drinking Guinness from a goblet. Caption and voiceover: "No beer comes near". Director - Tiernan MacBride Producer - Ward Fleming Camera - Seamus Corcoran Make up - Toni Delany, Joan O'Hare Filmed 13 Dec. 82 (Peppermint Nightclub & Flamingo Night Club, Parke's Hotel Stillorgan; Dublin Airport); 14 Dec. 82 (Film Lighting Facilities Studio, Sandyford Industrial Estate; Shelbourne Hotel; Powerscourt Shopping Centre); 12 Jan. 83 (Film Lighting Facilities Studio, Sandyford Industrial Estate [poster pasting scene]) Cast: Elkie Brooks Jean O'Reilly - friend Nicholas O'Brien, Anthony Head, Sharon Murphy - friend & band Jerry Coyle - friend & roadie Vincent McDonnell - manager John Delahunt - barman Leo Donnelly - older man Sean Gaule - poster paster Fionnuala Monks, Marie Gilmartin, Grainne Maguire - Elkie Brooks stand-in Donald Hounan, Eileen Moore, George Keegan - journalists Tom Collins, Johnathon Heshan, Tony O'Shea - photographers Paul Ashe Brown - chauffeur Jackie Hutchinson - sophisticated lady Jean Rutledge - shop assistant James McHale - band sax Denis O'Reilly - band drums Brendan Hederman, Candido Blazquez - rehearsal roadies Production companies: Ads On Film, Morris, Russell, Avis (Windmill Lane) Agency: Arks Ltd.

Colour television advertisement for Draught Guinness. Advert opens as man enters room full of boxes labelled 'same' before taking off his yellow jacket and throwing it on the floor. A hatch slides open and he slips on a black jacket before passing through. From the other side of the hatch he is seen ascending a staircase into a room full of people dressed in identical yellow jumpsuits. He makes his way through the crowds to a stack of vinyl records, the cover sleeve of which reads "More of the Same. The Imitations". Cut to view of a door flinging open to reveal a sky imitating the surge and settle of a pint of Guinness. The people wearing yellow jumpsuits are swept away by gusts of wind and the man, along with a few other people dressed in black, are seen walking along paths towards the horizon. Advert concludes as paths transform into the Guinness word mark and harp emblem on the outside of a pint glass. Visual of man drinking a pint of Guinness reflected in the condensation. Voiceover: "Guinness, you'll never look back." Filmed: 1988-07-13; Production companies: Gerry Poulson Associates (GPA), Windmill Lane Productions, Agency: Arks Ltd.

Colour television advertisement for Draught Guinness which depicts the surge and settle of a pint of Draught Guinness and the letters of the 'Guinness' word interspersed with images of leisure activities. Advert opens with two aircraft flying above the clouds with vapour trails behind them, to the sound of electric guitar music. As the aircraft veer away from each other the vapour trails dissolve to an extreme c oose-upf the letter ‘N’ in the logo of a pint full of swirling Guinness. An early morning mist surrounds a dolmen. Pheasants fly through a ray of sunlight shining through the stones, which dissolves to an extreme c/u of the letter ‘I’ in the Guinness logo. Two speedboats race at sea. They turn, leaving a curving wash behind them, which dissolves to an extreme c/u of the letter ‘S’ in the Guinness logo. A golfer hits a shot from a bunker. From another angle, the bunker forms a crescent shape, which dissolves to an extreme close-up of the letter ‘G’. Rocks tumble down a powerful waterfall, which dissolves to the letter ‘E’. A band performs in a nightclub. A musician moves into the foreground playing a saxophone, which dissolves to the letter ‘U’. A woman and man stand on a rope bridge between two sea cliffs, which dissolves to the Guinness harp logo, as a voiceover says ‘There’s only one word for it – Guinness’. Zoom out to show the full logo on the top of a full pint, with the caption ‘No beer comes near.’ Producer: Gerry Poulsen of GPA Ltd, Director: Martin Lambie-Nairn, Agency: Arks Ltd.