If music be the food of love, play on our competition!
6 February 2012

Hello all,

If music be the food of love, play on! This is a famous quote from some bearded dude who was handy with his words. He was kind of like a rapper but without all the guns and bad words. Anyway, I digress. This competition has nothing to do with literature and all to do with MUSIC.

Last week saw the 18th birthday of the album 'Dookie' by the band Green Day. Heard of them? Anyway, I remember when I first heard this album. My mate at school (Alex Bray if you must know) had an import copy on tape and he recorded me a copy to take home. I then saw them play Basket Case a few months later on Top of the Pops and I was sold. I'm showing how old I am but I'm still down with the kids, I love bands like The Strokers, Enter Shakira and Wand Erection. See.

Anyway, this got me to thinking about having a little bit of comp fun for all the AM music lovers. So here we are! The plan is this. I want you to write on our Facebook, Twitter or Google the one album that has changed or influenced your life positively. Tell us the one album you love and the REASON why. I mean it can be anything from your mates band to a big band like Bon Jovi. You may not win if it's Bon Jovi. If anyone mentions Nickelback, you will be ignored. The person who gives me the best answer to why they love that one album will win 250 x custom shaped vinyl full colour stickers. There will be also eight runners up prizes of goody bags. So get social networking! Feel free to post the album art and a link too.

To make this even more fun, I will collate all the answers and do a top ten of albums that you suggest, which I will then blog and we can all hopefully discover some new music! So infact, if you enter this comp you are guaranteed of winning something - even if it's just an album to check out.

Let's make this one a cracker please guys! Use #thefoodoflove tag on Twitter. Winners announced Saturday Feb 11th!

Thank you!

Jhon x

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Other than Dookie, the one album that got me into rock music was 'Earth Vs The Wildhearts' by The Wildhearts. I still love it today. So technically I've had two albums but it's my comp, so there. Now tell me yours!

The Wildhearts

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Jhon's awesome update and February's special offers!
2 February 2012

Hello awesome people.

How are you? Great I hope. Right without further ado, let's get cracking with what's happening on all things promotional at Awesome Merchandise. As you may know by now, we have top secret plans in the pipeline for you all. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to give you any more clues but I PROMISE that these plans are awesome. To coincide with these marvellous happenings, I will be running competitions galore. My brain is working overtime on novel ways to get these comps out to you. I don't want to do simple RT giveaways or 'likes' comps on Facebook. I'm not saying there isn't a place for them but I just want to make you work harder for some AWESOME prizes and make the way we use our Social Media even more interactive. Anyway, enough of this - I'm gonna get my nose back to the grindstone and work on some ideas. It's beneficial as my nose is huge and needs some erosion.

As promised, we will have new items on offer every month. February's offers have just gone up! We have two crackers this month. We're giving you 10% extra free on all orders of over 100 A3 posters. We'll also be giving you 10% extra free on all orders of over 1000 A6 postcards. Two very popular products and we're sure that you'll be more than happy with these offers running throughout February.

Also in February, we have something called 'Valentine's Day' where it's tradition to gived a loved one or even an intended loved one a card. Heard of it? Well if like me, you've never got one other than from your dad (it's different in my family) then you can do something extra special this year. We have some awesome heart-shaped plectrums that will make an awesome present or which can be used as a giveway for your business. Click here and check these bad boys (and bad girls) out.

One thing which I'm really happy about is that AM is now able to show you the real life behind the scenes of our company! We've now got this awesome video by the dudes at Capture Lab which shows you HQ and how we make up all your orders. We've also got a Tumblr which Luke, Charlotte and other team members are using to show you the daily happenings at HQ in picture form. We're also using Instagram to get this across to you. You can follow lukeawesomemerch and charlotteawesomemerch on there.

So if you wanna make me happy (and I know you do) then give all the links a quick click and join the party. As always, please tweet us with what you're up to. I spend a lot of time telling you what AM does but we also wanna know about you. So drop us a quick tweet and tell us about the awesome goldfish picture you've just fingerpainted or even just moan at us about the weather. I'm happy to give you a virtual hug or even fill up your hot water bottle. I know I keep switching between 'I' and 'we' but really they're the same thing at AM. After all there is no I in we.

Okay I'm waffling a bit now but I hope i've got across some of what's happening at HQ! I'm genuinally excited about what's happening here and what we have planned over the coming year. I'm off to finish fingerpainting my goldfish design whilst strapping hot water bottles to my face.

Keep it awesome friends.

Jhon x

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p.s Check out Dave from HQ being all cheeky and modelling the last of our Poster Roast shirt designs. I think he's in thr wrong job. Gorgeous!

Dave

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Awesome London-Dwellers...Check out the Jealous Gallery Pop-Up Print Studio!
1 February 2012

For one week only, Awesome Merchandise customers Jealous Gallery are hosting the
window-space at swanky homewares brand Heals’ flagship Tottenham Court Road store in London - they’re filling the space with a pop-up print shop turning out freshly-screened prints from various artists they work with.

Live Print Studio at Heals' Tottenham Court Road

The artists, designers and illustrators will be on hand to chat about the event, the printing process and their art.  And as well as the original and limited edition artworks they and the Jealous team will be creating during the exhibition, you’ll also have the opportunity to pull your own prints, and even print your own ‘moustache mask’ (we do love a good moustache...)!

Jealous Gallery

Obviously this has tickled our fancy here at Awesome Merchandise HQ...but it’s a bit of a jaunt from Leeds!

If you’re down in London this week, then mosey on down to the Heals’ store on Tottenham Court Road - the pop-up studio is open all week until Sunday 5th February.  You don’t need tickets to get in, or to get involved, so give it a whirl!

Check out the event on the Jealous Gallery website here, and on the Heals' website here...and if you're heading down, have an awesome time!

Charlotte x

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BRAND NEW Heart-Shaped Plectrums!
26 January 2012

Happy Thursday Awesome-ites and Awesome-ettes!

Hope you're having a lovely week doing...whatever it is you're doing this week!

Whether you're working all week, or lazing around watching Jeremy Kyle, you can't miss the fact that there's an awesome card-company-invented holiday coming right up to squeeze a few extra pennies out of your pinched post-Christmas pockets!

Here at Awesome Merch HQ we thought we'd treat all the lovers out there (and the haters...we're not ones to discriminate!) to our newest product - brand spanking new bright pink heart-shaped plectrums!

heart-shaped pink plectrums

Check out these bad boys...they really are something!

We had these delivered before Christmas, and I've been absolutely bursting to get them up because...well, because they're freaking cool!

We can print onto these babies in black, silver or gold...

lots of heart-shaped pink plectrums

So what are you guys waiting for?  Check them out and get your orders in here, already!

Have an awesome day, whatever it is you're doing!

Charlotte x

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Behind the scenes at Awesome Merch HQ - THE VIDEO!
19 January 2012

Hello all,

This really is a quick one today. The dudes over at The Capture Lab have made us an awesome video showing behind the scenes at HQ. Check it out, share and enjoy! It's a cracker! Have an awesome day!

Jhon x

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