Indie legend MJ Hibbett is taking his hilarious - and rigorously researched - new one-man musical 'Data and Doctor Doom' out on tour this summer. As the world's leading (also only) academic expert on Doctor Doom, MJ is the ideal person to tell you all you need to know about the next big baddie of the Marvel movies before Robert Downey Jr brings him to the MCU in 'Fantastic Four: First Steps' and 'Avengers: Doomsday'. The show is an adaptation of his PhD thesis (yes, that makes him a Doctor of Doctor Doom), using songs, slides, jokes and a unified catalogue of transmedia character components to explain how all fictional characters can be understood with stats and why on earth you'd want to do that. You'll come away understanding randomised stratified sampling, dual process theory, and, most importantly of all, why Doctor Doom is better than Batman. You can catch the show on tour this summer at the Watford Fringe (Pump House Theatre, Saturday 12 July), Buxton Fringe (Underground at Spring Gardens, Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 July) and Camden Fringe (The Hen & Chickens, Sunday 3 August). Further information and links to tickets can be found at https://mjhibbett.co.uk/doom/
My first solo album for eleven years, and first album of any kind for six - the fact that it's just me meant that I could call it whatever I wanted, so I did!
Videos from my one thousandth gig at The King & Queen in London on Thursday 2 February 2023