The Last Working Day Of The Month: Issue 210

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(MJ Hibbett & The Validators FACT, July 31st 2025)

Hello all, and welcome to this ROCKING edition of the newsletter - let's get started!

GIGS TO COME
Sunday 3 August 2025 - The Hen & Chickens, London
'Data and Doctor Doom' at The Camden Fringe - tickets HERE:
https://camdenfringe.com/events/mj-hibbett-data-and-doctor-doom/

Thursday 14 August 2025 - The Grand Central, Brighton
Talking about Doctor Doom at The Catalyst Club - tickets HERE:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/dr-bramwell/t-pqjeelo

Friday 15 August 2025 - Sweet @ The Yellow Book, Brighton
This Machine Kills Wasps presents ME accompanied by Chris Thorpe-Tracey at the piano, along with The Highchurches, Chris East and Leslie Bloom - tickets HERE:
https://sweetvenues.com/whats-on/this-machine-kills-wasps-presents/book

Saturday 11 October 2025 - Arch 555 @ Silly Towers, London
'Data and Doctor Doom' at the Lambeth Fringe - tickets HERE:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/select/zwryjqrywjpx

Check http://www.mjhibbett.co.uk/gigs/ for more information.

THIS IS NOT A LIBRARY 22ND ANNIVERSARY
Last week was the 22nd anniversary of the release of 'This Is Not A Library', and to celebrate this momentous milestone we've unleashed a whole album's worth of demos and alternative versions from the 'DVD Extras' of the original CD as a pay-what-you-want download. It's called 'Futuristic Multimedia' and you can download it for however much you like here:
https://mjhibbett.bandcamp.com/album/futuristic-multimedia-this-is-not-a-library-extras

DATA AND DOCTOR DOOM
The summer tour is nearly over, but there's a few more dates yet to be announced for later in the year. Meanwhile I've been doing some interviews about the show, including one with Everything Theatre HERE:
https://everything-theatre.co.uk/2025/07/interview-when-a-phd-meets-a-one-man-musical/

I also did one specifically about my Bedford show, HERE:
https://getyourcoatson.com/2025/06/28/bedfringe-2025-interview-data-doctor-doom/

THE FUNNY COMICS FAN CLUB
The super Summer Special edition of the podcast, in which John and I discuss the 1979 Beano Summer Special, is now available HERE:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-5ian2-1917195

We start recording Series 3 soon - more news next time!

AND FINALLY
A couple of weeks ago I did a talk at the IGNCC/IBDS conference in Brussels about what we've learnt about British comics from the podcast, and you can listen to it in full HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-RttbdubKc

And that's the lot for this time - thanks for listening!

Cheers,

Mark

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