Uni: The Plymouth Polytechnic Satique Project, Salcombe and Plymouth - 10th May 1986

We get given an assignment to come up with a new drink and to market it (obviously, not for real or anything). Nosher's mate Trotsky is in the group, as well as Ruth Watson, Michelle Osbourne, Russell Yeatman, and Michael Bey, and we kick off by holding a meeting in someone's kitchen to decide upon flavours. One of the group has bought along a range of odd and exotic flavours, and we settle on satsuma as the main ingredient. Once that's decided, the session turns into an impromptu party. A week or two later we drive over to Salcombe to do a "photo shoot" for the sales blurb that we've come up with. It's something along the lines of a story about some young, trendy things discovering the taste of "Satique", which is a portmanteau of Satsuma and mystique. We also commandeer the bar of the James Street Vaults for a while, as Nosher was a regular there and could get such favours, in order to shoot the "in the bar" scenes. It looks like another of our sales pitches might have been that "it's the drink to drink when you're driving", without the gin in it, maybe.

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Various drinks and flavourings are on the table

Various drinks and flavourings are on the table

A group photo after the tasting session

A load more BABS students pile into the kitchen

The test drinks are used for their intended purpose

It's become quite the party

A fishing boat trundles up the river at Salcombe

A Cokin 'tobacco' filter gives a mood shot

The Mini burns around Salcombe

Michelle and Ruth pile out of their Mini

The storyboard unfolds

There's a bit of disagreement about the plot

The 'young things' walk into Salcombe

At the top of the stairs

Michelle and Ruth stroll down the steps

A pub is sought out: it's the Ferry Inn, Salcombe

Ruth and Michelle enter the pub

A group photo after the Salcombe photo shoot

Do you want Plymouth Gin in your beverage?

A bottle of Satique is selected by the barman

Satique looks so much nicer than everything else

The deputy landlady of the JSV looks on

Ruth pretends to have a sip

Ruth, Michelle and 'the barman'

Satique and a set of car keys: it's a cliché alright

Our product on the shelf, complete with a PMT-printed label