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Matress Mick

  • 04-04-2012 10:05pm
    #1
    earlyevening
    Registered Users Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭earlyevening


    Has anyone seen the signs all over the northside to check out this guy on youtube? I just did. Its like an even cheaper power city ad - pretty sh*t - but almost funny for a brief few seconds.



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  • #2
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,103 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Mattress Mick is cool. He reminds me of ads they used to show in the 90s on Australian TV for small local businesses. His dancing is classic.

    "I'm not crazy!"


  • #3
    Phizzler
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭Phizzler


    Hes back!!!

    http://youtu.be/Ct7wsTrrgvw?hd=1


  • #4
    Lux23
    Registered Users Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    I thought I was mad when I saw this first, I don't fancy testing out a mattress with him!


  • #5
    snappieT
    Registered Users Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭snappieT


    Bumped into him outside the Padraig Pearse and shook his hand. He's opened a new shop on Pearse street too.


  • #6
    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭worded


    snappieT wrote: »
    Bumped into him outside the Padraig Pearse and shook his hand. He's opened a new shop on Pearse street too.

    Has Matress mick a web site?

    didn't he recently have a correspondence with some twitter English comedian / celeb?


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  • #7
    Faith+1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    Mick is a legend!


  • #8
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,103 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Laughing all the way to the bank. You see him in Bram's in Fairview the odd time for breakfast.


  • #9
    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    worded wrote: »
    Has Matress mick a web site?

    didn't he recently have a correspondence with some twitter English comedian / celeb?

    Stephen Fry wanted to visit after seeing his billboards on a visit to Dublin


  • #10
    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭worded


    dan1895 wrote: »
    Stephen Fry wanted to visit after seeing his billboards on a visit to Dublin

    That was it.

    Does he have a www?


  • #11
    dan1895
    Registered Users Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    worded wrote: »
    That was it.

    Does he have a www?

    He literally looks like a pimp
    http://www.mattressmick.ie/


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  • #12
    whodafunk
    Registered Users Posts: 546 ✭✭✭whodafunk


    Back in the day when I first saw him on billboards I called into his store to see if he actually existed!

    I've seen him a few times in Harry Byrnes pub on Howth Rd. Legend!


  • #13
    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭worded


    Does he have as good a range in the Pearce st store ?

    Sorry where is the other store I'm on a smart phone and eyes bleeding here


  • #14
    Lachlan Ambitious Bungalow
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Lachlan Ambitious Bungalow


    He always has a big billboard in Killester, at the end of Collins Avenue. Beside the college. Had a friend living around there and he had a housemate called Michael who was on the elderly side and a bit sleazy, we called him Mattress Mick. When I was studying in Killester one of the younger lads from my course started laughing the the billboard too, his take was the same as ours - he does seem like a dirty old man with the cut of him and the name! Saw he's done some stuff for charity, and I agree the man is a legend. Definitely a Dublin character.

    We decided to go to his showroom on Pearse St one day but it was all too warehouse-y and felt like we couldn't really go in just for a gawk so we left!


  • #15
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    He's the image of my late granny. I'll be having nightmares tonight.


  • #16
    Lachlan Ambitious Bungalow
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Lachlan Ambitious Bungalow


    FloatingVoter wrote: »
    He's the image of my late granny. I'll be having nightmares tonight.

    Now that made me LOL.


  • #17
    Gavin "shels"
    Registered Users Posts: 17,962 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    He has a big sign at Tolka Park facing Grace Park Road! Scary viewing on a Friday evening!


  • #18
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,032 ✭✭✭✭neris


    that has to be a wig. no one could have real hair that dodgy


  • #19
    worded
    Registered Users Posts: 4,532 ✭✭✭worded


    Sure look at IKEA
    didn't Mr IKEA start off as matrice Malmo

    How do IKEA matrices fair out for quality / price versus micks.

    In fairness he stocks Irish kit and Id quicker keep someone in a job and its not an import. So I could sleep soundly.

    Although there is nothing quite like a Sweedish restless night ;-)


  • #20
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    interesting piece here about the Irish mattress "industry" (in reality they're all produced in just 2 factories).


  • #21
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    worded wrote: »
    Sure look at IKEA
    didn't Mr IKEA start off as matrice Malmo

    How do IKEA matrices fair out for quality / price versus micks.

    In fairness he stocks Irish kit and Id quicker keep someone in a job and its not an import. So I could sleep soundly.

    Although there is nothing quite like a Sweedish restless night ;-)

    I've had 2, both were sh1te, and odd sized. Wouldn't buy another.

    21/25



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  • #22
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Sorry for the bump but Mattress Men is getting its worldwide premiere in Canada.
    Directed by Colm Quinn, Mattress Men shows how Flynn teamed up with aspiring filmmaker Paul Kelly to help his struggling mattress business. Reinventing himself as Mattress Mick - and roping in co-star Brian 'The Mattress Man' Traynor - Flynn used social media and online videos to get the word out.


  • #23
    Jesus.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,794 ✭✭✭Jesus.


    Brian Traynor aka BARABBAS

    The one and only


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