On My Radar: Tim Kirkby

What’s the best ad campaign you’ve seen recently?

I really like the Halloween one about the four goats.

What website(s) do you use most regularly and why?

I love meshfuc.com, where you can see who has been looking at your Facebook account and also view people’s web browsing habits, everything from their OCADO shopping lists to porn viewing history.

What’s the most recent piece of tech that you’ve bought and why?

Last Thursday, I bought the new Gloriette 80 materialiser, a brolly piece of equipment that enables you to see and interact with ghosts. I recently conjured up my old geography teacher Mr Parker. He wanted to put me in detention.

Facebook, Instagram or Twitter?

Myspace.

What’s your favourite app on your phone and why?

SHAZAM4Birds. I’m obsessed with it. I also look forward to SHAZAM4Farts (due Wednesday 2019), where you can detect who dealt the smell.

What’s your favourite TV show and why?

Star Quality from 1989, it’s the most complicated game show that’s ever existed.

What film do you think everyone should have seen?

For Your Height Only starring Weng Weng.

Where were you when inspiration last struck?

I was just about to go on stage in the BBC studio set of Jim’ll Fix It 1989.

What’s the most significant change you’ve witnessed in the industry since you started working in it?

I quite like the new robot account handlers brought in February 2016, modelled on the 80’s icon Chuck Norris.

If there was one thing you could change about the advertising industry, what would it be?

Everyone please stop wearing Fruit of the Loom T-shirts!

What or who has most influenced your career and why?

‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor from MOTORHEAD. (When you next meet me, I’ll tell you why...)

Tell us one thing about yourself that most people won’t know…

I was Judith Chalmer’s bridesmaid at her second wedding.