Bank Commercial 1991

[venger]

Perhaps he only drew out £5 because he had £45 in his wallet already.

[aaronlondon1]

Its Crockett's Theme by Jan Hammer - used from the show Miami Vice :)

[headintheclouds31]

Please somone, it is doing my nut in, I love this piece of music, but cannot remember for the life of me the composer/artist. Can anyone help please. Thank you

[SuperOnion88]

@headintheclouds31 Vangelis wrote it - "The Natwest Music", I believe it was unimaginatively titled.

[takeoutme]

They are still using some of them old natwest green screen ATM machines here lol

[EASTLANDS70]

Always made me laugh about how much of a tight twat he is - looks like he's only drawn a fiver out of the cashpoint!

[Jez32uk]

@EASTLANDS70 it was made 20 years ago, you could buy a lot with a fiver back then

[EASTLANDS70]

@Jez32uk Not really mate - a fiver was nowhere near enough for a Saturday night out on the town with the other half. It was about £1.20-£1.50 a pint back then depending on where you drank so a fiver wouldn't have lasted very long. I hope she dumped the tight fecker after that!

[dexorcist]

used to feel like smashing the tv when this advert was on. not that i watched much tv in 1991 ;-)

[fezzverbal]

Fucking love this music!

[headintheclouds31]

@fezzverbal Please, love this piece of music too, and used to have it, but please can you tell me who composer/artist is please. Cannot for the life of me remember.  Cheers x

[Jez32uk]

just like loading a photocopier really ... only the money's more expensive .... TWAT !!!

[MegaNorman007]

@Jez32uk sums up nat west really

[MondoBeno]

In 1991, the average Briton kept his/her money at the post office, and the women there were middle-aged and dumpy.

The Britons that kept their money at Nat West were the ones that got their homes reposessed in the early 90's.

[TheBottledair]

@MondoBeno Serious?

[MondoBeno]

@TheBottledair No, I'm not serious; I'm totally fucking all-out serious!!!!

[VonTwist]

Heh heh. We used to rip it out of this ad at school.

[alanlovechild]

i cudda well betta acted in dis dan him la.....proper sly on me kidda. not bothad now, got a new job in der asda price

[alexistheman102657]

It would've been so exciting to use a cash machine in 1991.

[TheWorldsWorstMan]

I've always remembered the music in this add, if not the ad itself. Been waiting to finds this music for about 18 years! Made my day.

[MrDontstareitsrude]

The first person to use a cash point machine was the late reg varney :-)

[bolteyes82]

Quality music...

[Ahtumble4ya]

Annoying accent.

[Stevieboy74]

@Ahtumble4ya - The kettle calls the pot black there Mr U,S and A! lol. It's called the English accent...clear, well spoken and eloquent. Email Nat West here in the UK and tell them that their advert from 1991 would have been better if they'd included a few loud "Woah!!!"s and some "Wooop!!"s and then a "Hi Five Buddy!!!" for good measure! lol. They might ignore you though because Nat West weren't the listening bank, that was Midland.

[Ahtumble4ya]

@Stevieboy74 Um...I beg to differ. "Sa-uh-day noight oill be awn th'over soid ov th'wall!" LOL! The Queen doesn't speak that way!

[007hor]

@Ahtumble4ya, nobody said she did you dopey prick.

[sekwah09]

Love this theme tune, it reminds me of Iceland, the country that is; not that mini supermarket where Kerry Katona shops from LOL

[Nosveractu]

Wow its been 20 years since i last seen this advert so many memories.

[fraserkatie]

Dean was brought up in Sale, Cheshire and attended Ashton on Mersey High School, where he and two other classmates were offered roles in Childrens' Ward.

Dean attended South Trafford College, Timperley for a short while, where he played drums for a college band.

Dean played a number of roles, although has been relatively unseen on screens since the turn of the Millennium.

(From IMDB! )

[Vikkisnake]

:40 What's Ron Weasley doing in there

[moshabee]

0:49... makes me laugh! He looks like a div being let out on day release in the worst-fitting suit ever.

[mrmootheirrev]

@moshabee

What was he in for? Public masturbation? That's what most bank ads most resemble (this one included).

[JoeScaramanga]

@moshabee ALL suits looked like that then

[pplpilot]

so did he get to fuck her in the end then?

[ephemeralprotagonist]

As far as cheesy adverts go, this one is pretty bad. But stil better than the crap adverts shown today.

[CyberNetTV]

it's like a photocopier! yet the paper isn't as expensive...hahaha........ err no.

[Calfaeairdrie]

There was one of these adverts filmed in Newcastle & Liverpool

[ismaelkhan]

i was about 5 when i saw that, can only just remember it but the theme tune brings it all back, the good old days eh! sure dont make em like that anymore :(

[glarpspooge]

So its...young lad, starts as office junior with nat west, loves every minute of it, gets a thing going on with Debbie from telesales...forget religion, this just boosted my will to live forever, my life now has a meaning and a purpose.

[TheSleepingMoth]

wicked soundtrack playing in the back....pure early 90s!!! cant ever bring those days back and they will never come again, early 90s were THE BEST

[ebyard]

Crockett's Theme by Jan Hammer...as used in Miami Vice :-)

[nisha82]

@TheSleepingMoth Music is actually from the '80s. Now they were THE BEST times :-p

[skyrider007]

i love this ad. the lad is cute

[u9941843]

Mmm.. an Saturday night cruise down the Mersey - he sure know how to live it up!!!

[sweetlilchickie1985]

That's a weird ad...:-S

[insania07]

Why is it when I go to my local bank, there are no fit women like there is in the latest natwest advert! Especially that short haired blonde girl! I like to deposit something special in her vault!!

[TheBottledair]

@insania07 Ya know that - the one in my local (UAE) would be nice but the females cover up themselves

[roachtoasties]

I don't think it's accidental that when the employee left work to meet up with his girlfriend again, that he had to go through a guarded gate. If that wasn't so, there would be no need for him to get his cash from the other side of the hole in the wall.

[joshuatrees]

The Liverpool waterfront - an elegant, atmospheric and familier sight...but always used to plug someone else's brand with.

[hinson92]

pho D copyer lol

[JasperLee23]

I remember this add when I was 4/5 years old so clearly, esp the music from miami vice. It is one of the first memorys I have as a child lol!

[stafishandlatte]

I was about the same age when this advert was on t.v....I couldnt remember anything about the ad other than the music ha ha

[makailkhan]

Hmmm !

[freakyjasonpowerslam]

Maybe he can use some of that money he's earning to buy a suit that fits.

[fraser931]

Thats what I was thinking freakyjason.

[MrDemolitionMan]

banks are cunts

[hinson92]

lol robbin twats

[markymint]

not bad ad! it'd be great to see them bring back crockett's theme. for 23 years of my life i knew it as the natwest theme :D

[ukstreetracer]

if they'd kept using crockett's theme, mabee they wouldnt have needed a £700bn bailout.

[freakyash]

If he wasn't 18 years older now than how he looks in this advert.... I'd so tap that.

[davideggers]

There are no money in the banks.

[Boardy1976]

Stop lending to people who can't pay back, arse-holes!

[darryl1974]

now we all own NatWest via the government's shareholding in RBS, can we demand this ad be shown again?

[Matthewtarling]

The whole series of ads like this were pretty good.

[neemz2000]

Yes, I remember the "Mary Whitehouse Experience" ripping into this. Deservedly so!

[boredreiver]

Instead of cheap perm he should spend his wages on a suit that actually fits him.

[ukstreetracer]

no way man, blonde photocopy chick loves his zoot suit.

[goldentouch1987]

Haha I love this ad.

Some of the branches still look like this... although with alot less staff!

[twoscotcheggs]

Nice to see that they've not seen fit to change the graphics on some of their cash machines in all this time.

[sparks444]

Nice haircuts

[SciFiAssasin]

'The Mary Whitehouse Experience' used to rip the piss out of "It's not all work, work, work!" and I wondered what they were on about. Now at last, seventeen years later I have the answer.

[NuttyGooner82]

They always ripped it out of these ads ;o)

The next day at school, we used to - complete with gormless expressions repeat THAT phrase :o)

[nomeconocen]

I was looking for this ad. I dont care whats been said, I love it. It reminds me of SUCH better times. Good God, who I wouldn't kill to go back to 1991!

[nisb21]

great advert!

[CesMan83]

Interesting commercial, but why in God's name did they use "Crockett's Theme" for a bank ad of all things?!

[airodyssey]

CesMan83: Why not? I think it's a great choice of soundtrack. It makes the bank sound more modern and closer to its customers. I was never a "Miami Vice" fan so when I first heard this music in this commercial, my first reaction was not "oh, Miami Vice" but "nice music"!

[CesMan83]

I suppose. My initial reaction was my statement down below because I'm a "Miami Vice" fan. I personally found it a bit peculiar that a signature theme song from a popular detective thriller was used in a bank advertisement

[nixcails]

I remember this series of adverts it was the start of that caring sharing nineties era.. in fairness I have a lot of nostalgia for the early nineties there was this whole art and human face in the adverts at the time, and I had my university days and working abroad days.

I never like the answering questions style of the ad- and the cheesy ending "of course we do, it's not all work work you know!"

[adrian795]

"It's just like a photocopier, only the paper's more expensive".

No shit, Sherlock!..

[StuEvo]

LOL nice one mate :-D

[Mikeyb85]

haha town hall branch in liverpool

[adrian795]

Quite a soothing ad all told, what with the Jan Hammer music and all. Presumably the ad was intended to give Natwest a more human face. Doesn't the bank look crowded with staff in one of the shots, these days they'd all be in India..

I remember that this was one of a series of ads, the later ones got a bit pretentious (remember that one of a Dad reading a letter to his son who was travelling in Africa, a guest on 'Room 101' chose it to go in there..)

[Andyrowl]

The Music is Crockett's theme by Jan Hammer!

[Flossyjuice]

The guy doesn't even look old enough to shave never mind look after your bank account. If I remember rightly The Mary Whitehouse Experience did a sketch that was pretty damn good on this. If I can find it on my old VHS' I'll post it. I have also heard a rumour from a friend of a friend etc... That the lad in the ovesized suit is either Mark Gatiss (League Of Gentlemen) or a very close relative. Any way it was very nice of the little lads mum to post the video on Youtube (bless).

[stefclarkson]

The lads name is Dean Gatiss

[fraserkatie]

@stefclarkson Just found out he played Matthew McGann in Childrens Ward! Imdb'ed his name! 

[rogermetcalfe]

top video - reminds me of my time in NatWest South West with some top folks

[ajc100890]

Wow, 1991 was a long time ago. It doesn't seem like it but the way the people look makes me realize that it was.

[stefjevtic]

What a goofy kid

[moshabee]

He has nice teeth, though!

[colinluzio]

Was this intended as a pisstake? Merseyside Vice?

[shmield]

does anyone know what the music is called from the mid 90s c and a ad?

[hotel900]

so long! i loved this ad! when it was used in GTA vice city, i went out and bought the cd. So we can see the one that started it all!

[fraserkatie]

Thanks for telling me grodwin! I thought it was something like that!

[grodvin]

To put you out of your misery, the music is Crockett's Theme by Jan Hammer.

[BelatedCommiseration]

yeah! You'll never believe this...but I was watching an episode of miami vice just now and heard the theme playing in the background! I ,naturally, came immediately back here to inform the world about it after id wikied up the details...only to find grodvin beat me too it! Oh well thanks anyway! I'm downloading that now })

[BelatedCommiseration]

Mind you...what a boring kid....i bet he'd have had the shit kicked out of him merseyside!

[BelatedCommiseration]

You know....in my idler moments..mostly when im trying to get to sleep...i sometimes do find myself wondering "What was that Natwest advert with the really cool music?", well done grodvin and if i ever find out the name of this music i will let everyone know!

[BelatedCommiseration]

hello

[fraserkatie]

Anyone know what the music is called on this great advert? Tell me on my profile, thanks!

[loverob]

It's called 'Crockett's theme' by Jan Hammer.