Talk:MJ Hibbett

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References

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Hibbett is often compared to Billy Bragg. (The Day that Thatcher's Dead)

He is from Peterborough... (The Peterborough All-Saints Wide Game Team (group B))

...in East Anglia. (I come from the Fens)

In appearance he resembles an adult Harry Potter. (The Black Hair and Glasses Brigade)

With his band the Validators (We are the Validators)

he came to widespread online notice in 2000 with an ode to the ZX Spectrum and other home microcomputers of the 1980s. (Hey Hey 16K)

In 2004 he gained national exposure in the United Kingdom by singing a song with regularly updated lyrics reflecting the ongoing events of the football World Cup on BBC Radio 1. (The Fair Play Trophy (again), again, again and again)

He lives and works in London (Bands from London)

and holds down a day job as a database administrator. (Work's all right (if it's a proper job), Payday is the best day)

He is an enthusiast of public houses. (Hibbett's golden rules of beer, Sod it, let's get pissed)

CLW 11:44, 19 December 2005 (UTC) -- modified by Lloyd Wood. CLW, you have ripped all supporting context out of the article and turned good writing into bland mediocrity. I've put back text mentions of Hey Hey 16K and the Fair Play Trophy, as they are directly referenced by the body text and of direct interest.[reply]

"CLW, you have ripped all supporting context out of the article and turned good writing into bland mediocrity." This is nonsense - the article was almost unreadable before due to the references being embedded within the text. All I did was to wikify the article and to remove the unecyclopedic details. Wikipedia articles should not be in the style of music magazine articles. CLW 22:50, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Hey 16K was released in 2000. Lloyd Wood 12:55, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I added a picture of Mark, maybe someone with more knowledge of wikipedia can upload it to the right place and make a local link instead of the link to my homepage?

Lloyd Wood 15:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC) Photo now uploaded as you requested, Jorma.[reply]

Hehe... guy's a legend. Ahem, anyway - couldn't the original text have been left as-is with the references reduced to the usual Wiki single-number type and all the songs, websites etc included in full in the footnote at the bottom, rather than just ripping it to shreds and starting over? It's the first time I've been to this page (I always check the discussion pages for tidbits :) but I find the original version "ripped" above at least as informative - as it shows off Mark's autobiographical songwriting style nicely - and quite entertaining, which is appropriate for a part time entertainer. The actual article itself as-is is alarmingly sparse... I feel like just lifting stuff from the MJH / Validators websites just to bulk it out some, as there's probably at least a similar amount of material to what's already there that could be legitimately added without it being filler. -- Tahrey 14/1/07

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