It's all been a bit hectic Harry, press conference went very very well, and the Sun (I know, I know! but you've got to dance with the devil sometimes) have been all out to promote it. It really is flying off the shelves on the download sites. No figures yet but the 'popularity' level is top of the scale. If it can make top ten this week then we are very hopeful for reaching somewhere in the very high echelons next week.
Back to the conference; The boss (Julian Thompson) turned out and did a superb job with the media as indeed did Simon Weston who attended along with 3 other Welsh Guardsmen. A fair number of other guys were there; Jim Bush - 2 Para and an instructor on Bad Lads Army. John Phillips who lost an arm attempting to difuse the bombs on Antelope. Denzil from SAMA of course, Paul Cunliffe who commanded Diana's burial party.
There have been loads of press coverage predominantly from the Sun who are running a campaign but because of that the other nationals have backed off. Tough decision but if you want mass publicity you don't turn the Sun down. We did the rounds of radio interviews after the conference which we think went well.
Either way, it is selling very well from the major download sites:
www.virgindigital.co.uk and
www.hmvdigital.co.uk along with the iTunes and Napster portals.
There's a video to go with it which is also on the sun's website here:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/section/0,,2007140002,00.html or here
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007 ... 71,00.html
Lots of guys helping out with interviews for the papers, you might have seen Pete Robinson yesterday in the sun and Yorkie Malone is in on I think Friday. Essentially there's a story about a veterans then the last paragraph highlights the record.
Looking good but early days.
