Last Night of the Viruses
"We are delighted to lend our support to such an original and talented group of people" Dan Trotman UK Marketing Manager, Sophos
Opera Anywhere have had a great year performing it's Puccini production sponsored by SOPHOS. Our Sponsor, commissioned us to write and perform a series of opera extracts to fit in with their Anti Virus story. We performed the programme on their exhibition stand at The Sunday Times Business Week Exhibition in the QE11 exhibition halls in Westminster. The Last Night of the Viruses was just one the songs we performed to a ‘popular’ tune!
One performance of our Puccini Double Bill was actually performed at the fantastic new £32 Million Sophos HQ in Abingdon!
Opera Extracts especially written for Sophos
Aida always choose Sophos
Carmen have ago if you think you're hard enough
The helpline of Figaro
The Puccini virus
The last night of the viruses
Advert 5: Last Night of the Viruses:
Main message: A stirring patriotic address expounding the manifest glories and incalculable benefits of Sophos - truly a jewel in the Empire’s crown.
In other words, over the top, fun and making the point that Sophos is British and won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise (not to mention underlining some of the other benefits we address in the series of ads.)
Music: Rule Britannia
When PC’s first went on the net,
There wasn’t much to damage them
There was no need to fret;
These days with spam and viruses,
There’s much more threat.
So we use Sophos,
It’s British and it’s best
It’s like giving your PC a bullet-proof vest.
Hail to Sophos
When Sophos is around
Spam mail never, never, never shall be found.
Hail to Sophos
Best software in the land
Or at least the greatest software on this stand.
Music: Land of hope and glory
Land of RAM and hard drives,
Cables everywhere;
But our network’s protected,
From each virus scare.
Wider still and wider
Shall our bandwidth be,
Sophos will protect us;
It’s the knees of the bee!
(It’s the bee’s knees)
Sophos will protect us,
Most triumphant…
Music: God save the queen (insert)
Be prepared to applaud,
They won the Queen’s award
For Enterprise.
Music: Back into Land of Hope and Glory
(As we were saying...)
Sophos will protect us...
Most triumphantly.
Music: Jerusalem
And did that spam
On Valentine’s day,
Enter our network stealthily,
And did those Trojan horses ride
Infecting most unhealthily;
And was the website under threat,
And was our network quite diseased;
And was complete chaos builded there,
Amongst our company’s PCs.
Bring me my shiny CD-ROM
Bring me my programme to install;
Bring me my software, switch it on,
One click and it just does it all.
Our IT staff may all have fled,
Our hardware’s cheap and Taiwanese,
But we can build security
Amongst our company’s PCs.
