What Voiceover Artist Skoda, Bluebird Care, Wiltshire Farm

Pandybelly

Hi,

Does anyone know who the voiceover artist is for the Skoda, Bluebird Care, Wiltshire Farm Foods ads is?

He’s god damn awful with his low smooth delivery. I just want to throw the radio as far away as I can.

Radio Gold

Pandybelly wrote: »

Hi,

Does anyone know who the voiceover artist is for the Skoda, Bluebird Care, Wiltshire Farm Foods ads is?

He’s god damn awful with his low smooth delivery. I just want to throw the radio as far away as I can.

Brian de salvo is the voiceover for all the Skoda adds.

ITV2

https://vimeo.com/40875670

jeremyj1968

I never understand how companies overlook a local voice and try to sell to their customer's with an English accent.

Always makes me think that the company was just too cheap to localize the ad.

check_six

There are a few voices that crop up regularly in Ireland. One fellow in particular has done tens of thousands of advertisements. He can do a big range of accents, as you'd expect, but he said in a interview that companies ask for a similar style to another ad they heard and liked. The most popular version is that smooth baritone with the anglo/neutral accent. Once you notice it, you will hear it everywhere!

withless

I hate his spit mouth warble. PUKE

applehunter

He was a goalkeeper in his day.

He used to do a radio column on their old League of Ireland coverage.

He was a big fan of Pat Devlin (Bray Wanderers former manager) IIRC.

More Music

jeremyj1968 wrote: »

I never understand how companies overlook a local voice and try to sell to their customer's with an English accent.

Always makes me think that the company was just too cheap to localize the ad.

Pretty sure the ad in question is localized, even with the neutral accent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmwe29OUv0

plodder

check_six wrote: »

There are a few voices that crop up regularly in Ireland. One fellow in particular has done tens of thousands of advertisements. He can do a big range of accents, as you'd expect, but he said in a interview that companies ask for a similar style to another ad they heard and liked. The most popular version is that smooth baritone with the anglo/neutral accent. Once you notice it, you will hear it everywhere!

Some of the regulars are good actors like Barry McGovern. His voice is so familiar from ads, it's a bit disconcerting when you hear him "in the flesh" on the stage.

stoneill

I quite like his voice, cadence and timbre.

Pandybelly

I can’t stand his delivery. Every ad he does is nauseating.

colm_mcm

Reminds me of this fella
https://youtu.be/JwefNLmlTY0

Pandybelly

I can’t stand his delivery. Every ad he does is nauseating.

Expunge

Bill Golding is the King - Rory from Wanderly Wagon.... Auld Mister Brennan....

He's the classy voice used when an upmarket artist is coming to the Three Arena etc.

What a voice....what delivery.

Some of those Fair City actors stealing a living could learn a thing or two about delivering a script from that man.

colm_mcm

At least Phelim Drew seems to have disappeared for a while. Him and the guy that used to do the VW radio ads who kinda speaks to a tune really annoy me.

coylemj

Expunge wrote: »

Bill Golding is the King - Rory from Wanderly Wagon.... Auld Mister Brennan....

+1 I believe he's known in the business as the 'one take man'. Reads over the script in his head, has been told the expected duration and usually delivers the goods on the first take.

Losty Dublin

applehunter wrote: »

He was a goalkeeper in his day.

He used to do a radio column on their old League of Ireland coverage.

He was a big fan of Pat Devlin (Bray Wanderers former manager) IIRC.

De Salvo was one of the first people in Ireland to be an accredited soccer coach.

TheLonelyOne

jeremyj1968 wrote: »

I never understand how companies overlook a local voice and try to sell to their customer's with an English accent.

Always makes me think that the company was just too cheap to localize the ad.

He is a local, lives in Ireland and has done for many years.

Pussyhands

I thought this exact same thing. Old man english voice is horrible.

The smugness of his skoda ad..."There's a 0% chance of getting discovered while singing in the shower" etc.

Trebor176

Is he the same chap that did the Petmania adverts?