Blog: Riding The Slides

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Since last we spoke I have been toiling away on Data On Doctor Doom and am extremely happy, also a bit surprised, to report that the first draft is nearing completion! I've written LOADS of new songs which have been flooding out of my BRANE like nobody's business, which is all very exciting except for the rather alarming fact that these new songs have about 10,000,000 words EACH in them. On the one hand this makes it easier to EXPLAIN a lot of the stuff I need to explain, but on the other it's going to make it a a bit tricky to actually LEARN!

I'm now homing in on the ending, which I think is going to be a MEDLEY. This is lovely in TWO (2) ways. Firstly, it works as a fab way of summarising everything that has gone before - most of the songs are about an aspect of THEORY of DOOM HISTORY, and so they work quite nicely as BITS that draw it all together. Secondly, as it's just ME doing these songs I have felt even less impulse than usual to write them in different keys, which makes it MUCH easier to blend them all together! HA!

Rather than rush to the end, however, I'm now focussing on the SLIDES as a way to understand how it's all going to WORK. I've got myself an exciting FOOT PEDAL so that I can move slides along at the same time as singing, but the key bits are the slides BETWEEN songs, where I'm trying to explain what's going on from one section to the next. The show is going to basically be a long PRESENTATION, just with more songs and GAGS than usual, and what I always do for presentations is to get a general idea and then work it out with the slides. I'm hoping that doing it this way will give me time for THORT and consideration as the the grand IDEAS I'm going to express at the end, and also what order I shall be doing them in.

It's all very exciting, not least because I have now got a SECOND official booking for the show, at the Watford Fringe, where I shall be playing in July. Full ticket details and timings are still to be finally finalised, but it's definitely happening! There's another five or six gigs in various stages of submission at the moment, so hopefully you'll be able to see more of them appearing over the next few weeks on the Doom Dates list, but in the meantime the prospect of DOING these shows does rather INFER that I'll need a show to DO. I'd better fire up the Powerpoint again!

posted 11/3/2025 by MJ Hibbett

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