Blog: Administration and Secrets

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I realise that the recent absence of fresh and exciting new blogs might lead one to think that there has been no fresh and exciting ACTIVITY recently, but nothing could be further from the truth - it's just that a lot of said activity has been either SECRET or ADMIN-BASED.

There have been not one but TWO secret things occurring lately, one of which is SECRET PROJECT to do with music that I am very very VERY excited about but am unable to speak of as yet. I think it's OK to say that last week I spent a whole DAY specifically on it, and that this was the SECOND day of work, but otherwise I had really best go no further than that. The other one is to do with COMICS but I have signed an actual bit of paper to say I won't talk about that yet either, so won't. I wish I could though, they are both GRATE!

What I very much CAN speak of, however, is the ROCK ADMIN what is currently gushing through my THORT TUBES, all of which is to do with the imminent commencement of the Data and Doctor Doom TOUR. I'm currently in the pre-publicity phase, which means I've been sending out a lot of EMAILS, getting together some more thoughts for VIDEOS, pondering maybe releasing a SINGLE of one of the songs, answering various questionnaires, and most recently sorting out some POSTERS.

Posters! Crumbs, I had forgotten about the need to do these, and so was taken slightly unaware when various Fringe organisers started asking for them. I had designed some a month or so ago but when I looked upon those again I realised that they were a bit cluttered and also gave no idea about what the show actually WAS, so have been TOILING away trying to make them a bit more informative and ZINGY. Part of this involved writing a STRAPLINE, but after discussion with The Images In My Logo we couldn't decided exactly what it should BE - rather wonderfully the aforementioned Ballots In My Box suggested putting it up for public discussion on THE SOCIALS so that is exactly what I did, and we got the final version as "a musical extravaganza of slides, statistics and super-villainy". It was like OLDEN TYMES when The Socials were actually USEFUL - I also got a GRATE recommendation for a printer in a similar way, and have now begun the process of ORDERING them. You can see all the ones done so far over on the gigs page, but here's the one for CAMDEN as an example:



Keen observers may notice that, technically speaking, this is MORE cluttered than possibly any other poster EVER, and includes some new images that have previously not been associated with the show. The new images come from the REVISED version what I have been working on since the work-in-progress show a few weeks ago, including a picture of ME at my PhD graduation which I suddenly realised would be PERFECT as a Publicity Picture for the tour - not only was it taken by a Professional Photographer, not only does it clearly demonstrate that I am INDEED a Doctor Of Doctor Doom, but it ALSO clearly shows that I look FABULOUS in purple!

Also, the cluttering is DELIBERATE as all of the guidance I got from various places said "the best way to do a poster is to have one single distinctive image" and it made me think of the row upon row of posters showing A Comedian Looking Whimsical that you see EVERYWHERE during Edinburgh Fringe. As ever, the fact that everyone else was doing their posters one way made me want to do it in the totally opposite way. I am PRETTY SURE this will lead all neutral observers to think "Why, this fellow is clearly some kind of maverick who doesn't play by the rules, I must buy multiple tickets for his show IMMEDIATELY."

Anyway, it all feels very EXCITING, as if this krazy idea of a show about Doctor Doom is actually going to HAPPEN. If you'd like to come and see it in Watford, Buxton, Bedford or Camden there are links for tickets available (and indeed TICKETS very much available) with some more shows to be announced hopefully fairly soon. Do come if you can, I think it is going to be Quite Good!

posted 2/6/2025 by MJ Hibbett

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