Blog: Meanwhile, Behind The Scenes

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This morning I sent out the latest edition of the newsletter, which is PACKED with news about the forthcoming Data and Doctor Doom TOUR as well as some BARGAINS* (*may not techincally be bargains) and various DOWNLOADS.

It all looks very busy, and it reminded me that despite much ACTION I haven't done a BLOG for a couple of weeks - the reason for this lack of bloggage is that a lot of the things I've been doing, ROCK-wise, have been either THE SAME from day to day or Not Quite Ready For Unveiling Just Yet.

The thing that has been THE SAME has been preparation for the aforesaid TOUR. It doesn't properly start until July but I've got a couple of things on next week that I need to have some sort of VERSION of it ready for. One of these is a Work In Progress show what I'm doing with a few people - this is NOT listed on the gigs page because it's more of a TRY OUT than an actual gig, but I'm going to do my best to make it as ALL RIGHT as possible. I've even taken the day off tomorrow to do another DRESS REHEARSAL, such is my commitment to QUALITY.

I'm also doing a couple of BITS on Tuesday and Wednesday next week for a comics festival taking place at my WORK. Yes, I am employed by an institution that has COMICS FESTIVALS - I can only imagine how DELIGHTED the me of 22 years ago would have been to realise that was possible! These ARE on the gigs page, but technically speaking they're only really accessible to staff and students at UAL. If you're one of those please come!

These BITS are going to be 20 minutes sort-of-presentations about PARTS of my RESEARCH, but I'm thinking of them as mini-GIGs that just happen to use some of the Doctor Doom shows i.e. me making REMARKS, occasionally pausing to do a song. It's going to be quite useful to try this sort of thing out as I'm hoping to be able to do something similar for Science Explaining-type shows later in the year.

Meanwhile the Not Quite Ready For Unveiling Just Yet stuff mostly consists of loads more SHOWS what I'm in the process of booking with various FESTIVALS. I'm quite pleased with how this is going, as I've got various Comics, Data, AND Fringe festivals in various stages of acceptance, and I should be doing a lot more shows over the next year or so. If nothing else this is REASSURING to me as I've put SO much work into MAKING the show it would be a shame to only do it two or three times! I'm also thinking of then PIVOTING it (classy business language there, thanks!) into a PODCAST around this time next year, ready for when the 'Avengers: Doomsday' movie comes out, but I need to keep telling myself to worry about the LIVE gigs for now and do that later!

posted 30/4/2025 by MJ Hibbett

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