Best Feature Website @ Qantas Media Awards 2008 A good song can reach a great pitch Help. I am slowly been driven insane by my mate Dave. He’s there when I switch on the telly. He’s lurking down the sides of web pages and I hear him when I walk down the street. It’s not that he’s stalking me, it’s just he fronts a band called Elemeno P and a catchy wee tune he co-wrote called ‘Baby Come On’ is playing somewhere in the country roughly—oh, let’s see—about every five seconds. Dave is tracking me courtesy of Telecom. Last year the telco exhorted us to ‘Come Together’, now it’s giving us the giddy-up with ‘Baby Come On’. (Would it be churlish to point out that we’ve been more than ready for some reasonably-priced, lightning-speed broadband, and that the more salient question to Telecom would be—to paraphrase another ad...
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