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I was sat at home last night settling down to what I thought would be an evening of COOKERY and TELLY when an email appeared, asking me if i fancied writing another song for a possible advert. The BRIEF was to write a history of data storage devices: HOW COULD I REFUSE?

Thus I spent a very enjoyable couple of hours suddenly having to READ UP about the history of data storage since the 18th Century... and to make it RHYME. By tea-time i had used my BRANE so much my hair was standing on end like Yahoo Serious, but I was quite CHUFFED with the results. A DEMO was knocked off, mixed this morning and sent off, ready for COMMENTS. On previous occasions I've done a full big old demo, and then had to take it all to bits to make changes, so this time I am GIRDED for alterations. I will FACT the words on here when it's done, whatever happens, as I think they are WELL CLEVER.

And all this gave me an IDEA for what I could/should do next year at Edinburgh. I've been thinking about "Dinosaur Planet" quite a lot, and indeed have written a THEME TUNE, but it struck me this morning that a possible BETTER idea would be to do ALL of the songs that I've had videos of, like Hey Hey 16K, The Ballad Of Alan Moore, Do The Indie Kid and so on, telling the stories about why they were written and what happened afterwards. There's LOADS of songs written for adverts that I could wheel out, SEVERAL stories, and I could try and do it all LIVE, playing along to the videos!

FUTURISTIC huh? It DOES mean that I'd have to fork out for a data projector, but the money I'd save NOT making dinosaur costumes would probably cancel it out! "MJ Hibbett: As Seen On The Interweb", BOOK NOW!

posted 27/8/2008 by MJ Hibbett

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