Gocompare.com Gocompare.com GoCompare is a British financial services comparison website, established in Wales in 2006. It provides comparison details for financial products including car insurance, home and pet insurance and breakdown cover. Since 2009 its adverts have featured a fictional Italian tenor named Gio Compario (played by Welsh tenor Wynne Evans), which have been voted "most irritating advertisement". It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. GoCompare was established in November 2006 and is based in Newport, Wales. The company's founder was Hayley Parsons, who worked for Admiral Insurance for 14 years, and was formerly head of business development at Confused.com.
Cast of Thousands (The Adverts album) Cast of Thousands (The Adverts album) Cast of Thousands was the Adverts' second album, released in 1979. It featured a noticeably different, more experimental sound than their debut effort, "Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts". The album was produced by Tom Newman (known for his work on Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells"), who played synthesizer on "I Will Walk You Home". Doctors of Madness frontman Richard Strange guested on synthesizer on the title track., Contemporary critics were generally dismissive of the album and the band's change of direction, but it has since been reevaluated. Writing for AllMusic, critic Dave Thompson