Various drinks and flavourings are on the table
Uni: The Plymouth Polytechnic Satique Project, Salcombe and Plymouth - 10th November 1986
We get given an assignment to come up with a new drink and to market it, although obviously not for real or anything. Nosher's mate Trotsky is in the group, as well as Ruth Watson, Michelle Osbourne, fellow Brockenhurst College alumnus Russell Yeatman, and Michael Bey, and we kick off by holding a meeting in someone's kitchen to decide upon flavours. We settle on satsuma as the main ingredient, and 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, however because it's November we have to pretend that it's summer, even though it's freezing. 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.
next album: A Bit of Bracken Way Pre-Christmas, Walkford, Dorset - 24th December 1986
previous album: Uni: A Plymouth Hoe Kickabout, Plymouth, Devon - 20th October 1986
The test drinks are used for their intended purpose
A load more BABS students pile into the kitchen
It's become quite the party
A group photo after the tasting session
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
Hint: you can use the left and right cursor keys to navigate between albums, and between photos when in the photo viewer
Various drinks and flavourings are on the table
Various drinks and flavourings are on the table
The test drinks are used for their intended purpose
A load more BABS students pile into the kitchen
It's become quite the party
A group photo after the tasting session
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