Being in marketing sometimes comes with amazing perks, such as my recent opportunity to see one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers, and Imagine Dragons from the front row at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

Paul McCartney released his and Linda’s 1971 album “RAM” today, and to promote it  came up with this really cool “Percy Thrillington” campaign.  The name Percy Thrillington traces back to a fictional character he created in 1977 for the album “Thrillington“, an instrumental cover version of the album “RAM”.  There’s all sorts of cool stuff included with the re-release including a documentary about the album called “Ramming”, a snippet of which is posted above.

As a part of the campaign they’ve set up both a Facebook page and a Twitter account for Percy, which I’ve been attempting to interact with quite a bit. We even invited him along to our wedding 🙂

@P_Thrillington Ms. Kelly B. and I would be honored if Percy Thrillington & Clint Harrigan joined us on our wedding day bit.ly/JdweBR

— Sean Henri (@SeanHenri) May 16, 2012

Kelly and I went to see the Avett Brothers last Wednesday night at Terminal 5 in NYC. Amazing, amazing show and a great band. Definitely worth seeing if you ever get the opportunity. Below is a video from that night of Scott Avett singing “Murder in the City”.

I love the song N17 by the Saw Doctors. It’s about an Irish emigrant longing to be back home on a road in Ireland. I’ve never been, but it’s on our to-do list for our next trip to Ireland along with most of counties Galway, Mayo, Sligo and Donegal.