Picturehouse (band)
Picturehouse are a band from Dublin, Ireland. The band are most famous for their "Sunburst" from the album Karmarama in Ireland.
History
PictureHouse is the brainchild of Dave Browne. Originally signed to London Records in 1994, a rather tumultuous time resulted in the band returning to their native Dublin. They self-financed the release of their debut album “Shine Box”. The album produced a number of popular singles such as “Somebody Somewhere”, “The World and His Dog” and the smash hit “Heavenly Day”. With success in their native Ireland the band toured with fellow Irish band The Saw Doctors on their UK tour in 1996. They later supported Bon Jovi in Dublin in the following year. Following this the band released 'Shine Box' across Europe following a distribution KOCH. The band toured the Nordic countries extensively in 1997.
Their second album 'Karmarama' was released in 1998 through the East-West label in Ireland. This release strengthened their presence in their native Ireland. “Sunburst” was the most played song on Irish radio in 1998, a multinational retail group put in the song in their TV campaign and the band played countless sold out shows including the legendary Olympia Theatre and the Point Depot. An award followed with Dave receiving “The Phil Lynott songwriting award” which was presented by Phil’s mother in London.
Karmarama (advertising agency)
Karmarama is an independently owned creative British advertising agency based in London and founded in 2000.
History
Karmarama was launched by partners Naresh Ramchandani and Dave Buonaguidi in May 2000. Prior to Karmarama they had worked together at HHCL and were creative directors of the London office of Chiat/Day before launching the first advertising agency co-operative St.Luke’s. There they created work for Boots No7, Midland/HSBC Bank and the Chuck Out The Chintz campaign for IKEA.
Dave then left to be the Creative Director of Channel 4 before teaming up with Naresh again two years later to launch Karmarama. They created famous campaigns for Selfridges Tokyo Life before merging with Outfit Communications and Ben Bilboul whom they knew from his role as IKEA account director at St.Luke’s. This led to the renewed relationship with the IKEA account. The agency produced three years of work, the most prominent being the Van den Puup campaign that also helped them secure clients such as Unilever and Heineken's Amstel brand. On top of this the agency made the headlines with their own ‘Make Tea not War’ placard for the Anti war March in 2003. The poster which featured Tony Blair with a tea cup on his head and a gun in hand has been exhibited in the Victoria and Albert museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Trento, Italy.
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