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Today's EXCITING NEWS is that it looks like I'll be releasing a record in AMERICA! And when I say "I", i mean ME - it's an MJ Hibbett SOLO record! And when I say "record" I mean a CASSETTE! Oh YEAH!

This has all come about through my friend Jimmy The Kung Fu Cookery Teacher, from The Bobby McGees, who pointed me in the direction of cassette-only label POPGUN RECORDINGS. They're releasing an album of cover versions of HIP HOP FAVOURITES, and he thought they might like to have "Boom Shake The Room" or "Stan", as recorded by me. This seemed like a good idea, so i got in touch and AMAZINGLY i turned out the RAOUL from the label had a copy of "Work Is A 4 Letter Word" (i.e. my first ever record, released by Fortuna Pop! in 1997) and was all CHUFFED to hear from me. LO! BEAUTY shone around!

Shortly afterwards he asked if i might be interested in doing a TAPE on his label, of some of my older recordings - i said that this was a GOOD IDEA, so GOOD in fact that we'd already done it on Warriors Of Nanpantan, and suggested maybe i could do something NEW instead? Raoul, he said "YES!" and so in the next few months I'm coming to be recording 5 or 6 new songs all on my LONESOME in our SPARE ROOM, ready for release in THE AMERICAS! WHOO!

I'm really rather excited about this I must say - if you've ever looked at the Pre-Validators Solo Career page you'll see i've released a LOT of tapes in my life, and if you scroll RIGHT DOWN towards the bottom you'll see the 5 solo tapes i recorded between 1995 and 1998 that were the START of me doing this properly. I've recorded quite a few songs since them on my four track for compilations and things (as owners of Warriors of Nanpantan will know, there are MANY of these) and I still use it to record DEMO VERSIONS for the Validators, but i have long MISSED the process of recording a whole SET of these sort of songs, like i used to do. Oh my, it is going to be SUCH FUN!

posted 7/4/2005 by MJ Hibbett

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