MJ Hibbett's Exciting Life In Rock is off to Edinburgh NOW!

The Last Working Day Of The Month, Issue 42
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(MJ Hibbett & The Validators FACT, July 31st 2008)

Hello all, and welcome to this FESTIVAL FUNTIME edition of the newsletter. Let's GO!

GIGS TO COME

This month I shall doing the SHOW hither and thither:

Thursday July 31 - Boston Music Rooms, London (launch night for Apples For Everyone's new album - I'm onstage at 8.15!)

Monday August 4 to Saturday August 9 - Medina, Edinburgh (My Exciting Life In ROCK at The Edinburgh Fringe, 6-7pm)

Monday August 4 to Thursday August 7 - Lower Stage, Edinburgh (20 minute slot every day from 3.50pm)

Saturday August 9 - Upper Stage, Edinburgh (20 minute slot from 3.30pm.)

Friday August 15 - Lumb Farm, Derby (The Blyth Power Summer Fayre with Pog, Eastfield, Blyth Power and more - I'm on at 9pm)

Saturday August 30 - Ray's Mum's Back Garden, Stourbridge (The Grand Annual Tradition CONTINUES!)

If you can make it to Edinburgh it'd be GRATE to see you - more information at www.myexcitinglifeinrock.com

GIGS WE'VE DONE

This month has been a bit taken over with My Exciting Life In ROCK, with THREE shows - first of all the dress rehearsal at The Lamb, then a Press Preview at The Cross Kings and finally the full band performance on the Friday night at Indietracks. They were all BRILLIANT fun, and thanks VERY much to everyone who came, especially those who came to more than one and earned themselves a Special Badge!

I also did some BITS of the show in Sheffield, kicking off an amazing night of The Pete Green Corporate Juggernaut, The School and Slow Down Tallahassee, and some more in Marylebone with the fantastic Superman Revenge Squad. The final gig of the month so far was in my Mum's back garden, where I was amazed to find that not everybody over 50 knows the words to Besame Mucho!

RECORDS

"It Only Works Because You're Here" is out NOW, and very much available to buy, either from us, Thee SPC, Amazon, iTunes, and a Wide Variety Of Other Stockists. Details of many of them can be found here.

The video is also online, HERE:



www.youtube.com/watch?v=naiJZWc_iDk

Links to the video are, as ever, VERY much appreciated, and if you've not got a copy of the single yet I'd HEARTILY recommend it - three brand new tracks and a mini-GRATEST HITS, how can you go wrong?

OTHER THINGS

It's been a super glitzy showbiz month for me this month - I've been to several GRATE gigs (Lazarus Clamp and The Gresham Flyers, as well as that MEGA line-up in Sheffield), a book launch ("Wiffle Lever To Full" - ACE), a preview screening ("No Heroics" - REALLY good), and had a go at ANOTHER song for a telephone advert... which once again didn't make it, but still. Truly, i have been MR SHOWBIZ! Hopefully that'll stand me in good stead for the week of Showbiz Parties, Champagne, and hanging out in the Cocktail Bar with Eddie Izzard and The Mary Whitehouse Experience - that IS what Edinburgh will be like, right?

We'll find out soon enough - thanks for listening, and see you next month!

Cheers, Mark

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RE: MJ Hibbett's Exciting Life In Rock press launch and things

I must remember to buy tickets to his Ed show before they sell out.

muddyfunkster :: 21 Jul :: 2008 :: Comment / reply

MJ Hibbett's Exciting Life In Rock press launch and things

Hello - this is a special mid-month version of the newsletter just to let you know about some RATHER Exciting New Things, these being our new single, the video to go with it, and the press launch for the Edinburgh Show. Let's GO!

THE NEW SINGLE

Our brand new single, "It Only Works Because You're Here" is officially released next Monday. It'll be available on Amazon and (theoretically) in SHOPS, but you can get it direct from our webpage right NOW by going here:

www.mjhibbett.net/releases/itonlyworksbecauseyourehere.htm

As well as the title track it's got two brand new b-sides, "Professional Competent Rocking And Tight" and "Sod It Let's Get Pissed", and a veritable GREATEST HITS of bonus tracks taken from the Edinburgh Show. It's a bargain!

THE NEW VIDEO

The rather smashing video for "It Only Works Because You're Here" is now on YouTube, HERE:



www.youtube.com/watch?v=naiJZWc_iDk

It's a photo story (or FUMETTI for those in the know) telling the story of the song and we're rather chuffed with it - see what you reckon and, if you like it, LINKS would be very much appreciated!

THE PRESS LAUNCH

Tonight in London it's the Press Launch for my Edinburgh Fringe show My Exciting Life In ROCK. It's on at The Cross Kings on York Way, kicking off just after 7pm with a set from Mr Pete Green before I do the show in full.

It's four quid on the door and open to everyone who fancies it - there'll be BADGES afterwards and GOOD TIMES throughout, so please come along if you can!

All right then, that's more than enough for now - thanks for listening!
Cheers,
Mark

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