GIGS TO COME

This month MJ Hibbett and/or The Validators shall be playing the following places:

Thursday November 30 - Jamm, London (Vic Lambrusco’s Cabaret Hour!)

Thursday December 7 - The Living Room, Cambridge (The Living Room Christmas gig - tickets available from http://www.cambridgebands.com/Shop.php)

Saturday December 9 - Woodhouse Eaves Village Hall, Leicester (The Validators Christmas Party, with Tube Bar DJs, in aid of the Woodhouse Eaves Playground Appeal - more details and tickets at http://www.mjhibbett.net/gigs/christmas.htm)

Wednesday December 13 - The Rose Of England, Nottingham (Tasty Fanzine’s Christmas Gig, with Orchards and Mr Pete Green. Tickets available from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/13960)

Thursday December 14 - The Basement Bar, Leicester (Sorted gig promoting the Hollow Smoke compilation - http://www.mjhibbett.net/releases/hollowsmoke.htm - with Michael from Lazarus Clamp. FREE!)

Sunday December 17 - The Good Ship, London (Sorted Records all-dayer with Bobby McGees, Chapter24, Pacific Ocean Fire, Former Utopia, Lazarus Clamp, and The Dirty Backbeats, again promoting the Hollow Smoke compilation. Tickets available from
http://www.wegottickets.co.uk/event/13861)

A healthy batch of Christmas Gigs this time around, and MJ especially recommends Woodhouse Eaves, if you can make it - “it’s going to be FUN!”

RECORDS

MJ Hibbett & The Validators are just getting themelves together for the next release, which will be a EP featuring “The Gay Train” and “The Lesson Of The Smiths”, along with “Never Going Back To Aldi’s”, “Other Bands’ Setlists”, an acoustical version of “We Only Ever Meet In Church” and a radio edit of “The Lesson Of The Smiths”, known HILARIOUSLY to them as The Norman Collier Mix.

Little Star Designs are hard at work on the sleeve and MJ is busying himself with the Multimedia. This should feature the video for “The Gay Train”, the demo version of “Hey Hey 64K” and the story of how that came to be, and a recording of their gig at The Firebug in Leicester on the tour in July. They’re hoping to have it all done and releasable in the spring.

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In October MJ will be playing the following places:

Thursday October 12 - The Windmill, London (John Peel Night, playing with Lazarus Clamp)
Friday October 13 - Pinup Flights, Glasgow (Playing at the launch party for the new album by The Plimptons)
Wednesday October 18 - Cafe Iguana, Reading (with The Pines)
Friday October 27 - The Brook Inn, Cleator Moor, Cumbria
Saturday October 28 - University of Sheffield Students’ Union, Sheffield (on the main stage at about 4pm)

There are a variety of line-ups for these - London will probably feature Tom on violin, Glasgow’s a solo appearance, Reading’s the White Stripes line-up with Tim drumming, Cleator Moor will see MJ joined again by Tom and then it’s the full Validators reunited for Sheffield.

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A wave of pleasure ran through me when I realised that the cancellation of a prior engagement meant that my plans to go to this gig were back on. This was my first jaunt into the live world of MJ Hibbett & The Validators and, to my great joy, the group lived up to all expectations.

The audience were treated to four new songs in the nine songs set, the first being the opening song, Gay Train, a tale of a visit to the Gay Pride festival in London. It proved to be a great start to proceedings and showed that Mark’s songwriting talents are showing no signs of waning. As did the other three new sings, Never Going Back To Aldi’s (about shopping in better supermarkets), The Fight For History (about the filtering of all negative memories of a politician when they die - Ronald Reagan, in this case) and Quality Of Life Enhancement Device (I think the title says it all, really).

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In addition to this, we were treated to a selection of classics from the band’s back catalogue too, including Hey Hey 16k, Things’ll Be Different When I’m In Charge and the storming closer, The Symbol Of Our Nation.

The band were on top form as they played to a packed room, and great sound made it all the better. You can’t beat a few good songs and MJ Hibbett has bags of them.

Setlist:

1. Gay Train
2. Hey Hey 16k
3. Never Going Back To Aldi’s
4. The Fight For History
5. Billy Jones Is Dead
6. Quality Of Life Enhancement Device
7. Easily Impressed
8. Things’ll Be Different When I’m In Charge
9. The Symbol Of Our Nation
   

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You remember when the Internet was going to change everything? Record labels were going to become obsolete because bands were all going to release their music themselves. Fans would go out and find music themselves instead of having it rammed down their throats by old men in suits disguised as trendsetters. No more CD’s either, everything would be downloaded. Yes, it was all going to be so perfect. Except that the idea was inherently flawed and simply didn’t work. Except in the case of MJ Hibbett.

Okay, MJ Hibbett doesn’t entirely fit in with the purist’s view. He is signed to record label (but it is called Artists Against Success and he does co-own it, so it probably doesn’t count) and he still releases CD’s. He’s succeeded because he has embraced and modified the new technology like no one else. His online single Hey Hey 16k (the first ever, according to AAS) has now been turned into a video by B3ta.com’s Rob Manuel and within the first 48 hours of it’s release it became the fifth most popular download on the whole internet. It seems, after years of hard graft, MJ Hibbett has made it, despite the fact that almost all of the mainstream media pay him no attention whatsoever.

This new EP is the follow-up to last year’s excellent album, This Is Not A Library. The release ties in with Euro 2004 including, as it does, Hibbett’s own crack at the football song genre, The Fair Play Trophy (Again), which focuses more on the reality of English football than all the other songs it’s up against and pleas for our nation team to win the Fair Play Trophy. Preceding this song is Things’ll Be Different (When I’m In Charge), taken from This Is Not A Library and featured here by popular demand. The rest of the EP is made up of two new songs (City Centres and Let The Weird Band Win), a live favourite (Billy Jones Is Dead) and a re-recording of an old song as voted for by fans (The Primal Rhythms Of The Bolivian Nose Flautist).

It doesn’t finish there though. Oh no. In addition to the six tracks available to you on your CD player (seven if you count the hidden track - an all-time MJ Hibbett classic!) you can also access some “futuristic multimedia” through your computer. This gives you lyrics, annotations and at least one alternative version of every track on the EP, as well as fourteen additional unreleased songs. I dare you to argue that this CD isn’t amazing value for money!

Listen ye to MJ Hibbett. He is a man of wisdom and also a giver of chuckles.

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Label: Artists Against Success / SortedWebsites:

www.mjhibbett.com
www.artistsagainstsuccess.com
www.sorted-records.org.uk

Release date: 7th June 2004

Tracklist:

• Things’ll Be Different (When I’m In Charge)
• The Fair Play Trophy (Again)
• Billy Jones Is Dead
• City Centres
• The Primal Rhythms Of The Bolivian Nose Flautist
• Let The Weird Band Win

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Rejoice and let jubilation reign because MJ Hibbett is back with his second album! This hour-long collection has been a full three long years in the making. In that time Mr Hibbett has been ably assisted by The Validators - comprising Frankie Machine (Whose album should be compulsory listening), Tim Patterson (of Prolapse fame), Emma Patterson (Who gave birth to Edie mid-recording, although not literally I hope) and Tom McClure (from Lazarus Clamp) - as well as Kev Reverb (Crazyhead) on production duties.

The apparent juxtaposition, by the standards of conventional wisdom, of an album that is well thought out whilst simultaneously being jaunty and upbeat is part of the whole MJ Hibbett & The Validators appeal. There is a rich vein of well observed and finely targeted humour runs through ‘This Is Not A Library’. This album covers topics from English national identity to media enhanced male neurosis and does so in styles from country to punk rock without sounding like a haphazard compilation. For all that, the real reason to listen to this album is because it is just damn good music.

If you’re in London or can get there, you catch MJ Hibbett Upstairs at the Garage on August 1st.

Label : Artists Against Success

Release Date : 21 July 2003

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Website #2 : www.artistsagainstsuccess.com

Tracklisting

• Things’ll Be Different When I’m In Charge
• The Symbol Of Our Nation
• (insert title here)
• Falling For Trust
• Last Orders
• Holdalls Is The New Name For Midlands Mainline Lost Property
• The Girl Who…
• Fat Was A Feminist Issue
• Good Cooking
• The Back Of The Sofa
• Make The World Go Blind
• Nothing In Common, Except, Maybe…
• Post-Subsonic Bass
• You Will Be Hearing From My Solicitor
• Everything’s Turning Out All Right (Everything)
• BBC2 (A New Hope)
• Easily Impressed
• One Last Party
• PLUS! Futuristic Multimedia featuring another 20 tracks, lyrics, picture galleries and more!

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