Meanwhile, In Montrose

From RTE:

Awesome one-take music video to promote RTÉ Big Music Week 2012. This video was filmed on the grounds of RTÉ on Saturday 29 September 2012. Shot in one continuous take, featuring a cast of hundreds lip-synching to the classic Irish rock song by The Stunning, ‘Brewing Up a Storm’.


84 thoughts on “Meanwhile, In Montrose”

  2. Deadly ad! Looks like great craic!! And not to put a dampner on it but the amount of “high profile” presenters there on the RTE books…. Ahem…. enough said!

    • Fantastic ad – would not have expected that standard from RTE!

      There was a lot of “dad dancing at a wedding” going on but it was funny!

      Aoibheann Ni One Eye looks pretty foxy.

    • The video looks about 20 years old. Using a song from an upcoming Irish act would have helped. I have a serious hate for that song. The Stunning, a prime example of a band surviving on one song.

  6. Baywatch girl is Tubridy’s girlfriend I think. Is there a cock up with the weather girl at about 0.20?

  11. Not a fan of The Stunning or RTE but I think it’s very good. Credit where it’s due

  12. the AOL france office did this a few years ago to celebrate the office closing and their redundancy, maybe I’m biased but I like theirs better…

  14. That’s just cringe worthy. Hate the “Stunning”, they’re anything but…

    Agree about lovely girl though, she is stunning!

  15. RTE needs to stop making it all about themselves. This ‘Montrose’ cocoon is nauseating.

    • Sky and BBC (all TV stations even, bar euronews as they are faceless) do ads featuring their presenters. Why not RTE?

      It’s a humorous effort that’s well done.

      My first thought was, wait until the Broadsheeters get a hold of this and they’ll rip it apart… but it’s been pretty positive for them judging by the majority of comments so far :)

    • +1

      how does this serve us as a people?!? tried to point this out on their youtube page, but my comment is awaiting moderation.

  17. Jesus wept. From the outside RTE looks like a cold glass/concrete block Now plants, trees, covered walkways, an atrium any self respecting shopping mall would be proud of are shown. What a working environment,
    Can’t wait to pay the licence fee.

  22. Ah lads! You’re being a bit unfair here. This obviously took a load of effort and planning, not to mention so many people giving up their time to get involved.

    More to the point, it’s a bit of fun on a Monday morning!

    • “Giving up their time?” – it’s an ad for their employer. (Unless they rehearsed after hours?) – not knocking the ad, I think it’s great fun

        • “so many people giving up their time to get involved”

          It’s a f**king PR exercise for RTE. They benefit from it FFS.

          • That would be a point well made if RTE were the only ones benefiting from the Big Music Week.. And if all those people getting involved were employees of RTE.

  23. Fair few people with a case of “the mondays” in here then. I like it, and that lady is another great way to brighten a dull Monday. Fair play to the positive folk here, and cheer up the rest of you – Just one thing to note, those of you criticising the fact that it’s not exactly “original”, none of you posted to actual original.

  25. I quite like this actually. Anything with Aonghus McNally is usually excellent to be fair. Bring back the Irish Open at Goffs RTÉ

    • RTE sold her to a Emirates Sheikh for 15 million euros. Next time you see a Craig Doyle show, know that its been funded by Ann Doyle’s rigours.

  29. This is what you get for €380 million per year. Enjoy.

    5 minutes of the girl in the fitted pinafore would be better.

  30. A knock-off of a 5-year old idea presented by the same woeful hacks. That’s the credit that’s due.

    Also the “stars” were probably paid appearances fees on top of their six figures, if not you can be sure they got taxis.

    Of course their freshest star is the son of a millionaire whose “bit” is to dress up as a lower class person. Watch him dancing about in the video. The same man child who did a Cribs type sketch in his own mansion, in blackface and now gets paid by the taxpayer to mock the people who made his daddy’s fortune.

    RTE needs to be shut down.

    • The Damo / Ivor character (not sure which is which) is awful simply because that character is awful. That ‘comedy sketch’ on Republic of Telly is one of the worst things ever to infect my TV, I’ve had funnier hangovers.

    • Brought up on bad money made from the malingering of directionless inner city kids.

      Not a nice legacy to have.

  34. jaysus, that’s brutal

    judging by their past output, its a sh1tstorm they’re brewing up.. woeful

  35. Great camera work. The camera person must have been sprinting.

    Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin always looks very lovely and all that but Jaysus she is wasting away. Eat something woman, don’t be starving yourself on our accounts (you’ll still look pretty, you might even be gorgeous-er.)

    • Also Emma from the kids show, we only saw you for a second but you were very pretty also.

  38. The RTE LIPDUB is very good. But not GREAT. The best LIPDUB ever is from the German University who created the very first one. Great song. Great choreography. Here it is….