Globi Globi Globi is a Swiss cartoon character occasionally referred to as Switzerland's Mickey Mouse. He is pictured as an anthropomorphic blue parrot with a yellow beak wearing a black beret and a pair of red and black checkered trousers. He was created by the Swiss cartoonist Robert Lips, as an advertising character for the Swiss department store Globus in 1932 for the company's 25th anniversary. He was originally planned to be called "Kimbukku", but later renamed Globi after the local Basel German "(Baseldytsch)" dialect word for the department store that created him. He initially appeared in a cartoon strip called
This Is Colour demo "First Steps (2005 demo)" at West Suffolk College, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, this recording was never physically released and only three of the tracks made it to the band's Myspace page (This Is Colour's main outlet for publicity at the time). The demo has since leaked, but even with intense Google searching, it is still hard to come by. Their first actual release, "A Brief Demonstration", recorded in Jason Naylor's shed, Glemsford, Suffolk, UK, was released in 2007. "A Brief Demonstration" grabbed the attention of promoters all over the UK, This Is Colour toured extensively, playing with the likes