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When You Hear A Bird - OUT NOW! Today I am delighted beyond words ...

2026-10-20T09:49:48Z

When You Hear A Bird - OUT NOW!

Today I am delighted beyond words to announce that the DEBUT SINGLE from Hibbett & Christopher is out NOW wherever you get your digital music, and ESPECIALLY directly from us via Bandcamp HERE:
When You Hear A Bird by Hibbett & Christopher
The songs that Chris and I have been working on for Hibbett & Christopher are a mixture of new and old ones, and When You Hear A Bird is very much in the NEW category, with Chris taking my basic idea and making it into a thing of GRATE BEAUTY. We're going to be playing it on our forthcoming TOUR, which we are calling 'Hello, we exist' because that is basically what we're trying to say with it!
You can find out more about ALL of the forthcoming Hibbett & Christopher gigs over on the webpage. where there are also links to our new social media sites, if you fancy following us. We're kicking off the tour on Wednesday in Nottingham then we're off to Bath, Brighton and London, with more to come next year in Sheffield and Leicester. It would be LOVELY to see you if you're around, the shows so far have been, I think, PRETTY FLIPPING GOOD and we are planning to keep them that way!

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PRS Statement Day Yesterday was PRS Statement Day, that most ...

2026-10-16T18:09:42Z

PRS Statement Day

Yesterday was PRS Statement Day, that most wonderful of festive occasions that comes around for Performing Rights Society members anywhere from zero to four times a year, depending upon whether you have accrued enough songwriting royalties for them to look down kindly upon you and hand over some CA$H.
Happily for me, after about a year of NOT being visited by Santa PRS, I finally made enough for it to mean that I DID get paid this time, and received the princely sum of £30.71! It is, of course, not the money that counts - as I always say, if I was ever in this for the money then I would very quickly have done something else instead - but rather the big list you get that shows where your many micro-pennies have accrued.
And OH! what a delight the list was this time, as it was full of WEIRD and FUN stuff, notably the fact that Thank Goodness For Christmas is gradually making its way to being one of my top ten earning songs of all time! Obviously, that is a pretty low bar to clamber over, but still. It's done well over several statements now because it apparently made it onto the playlist for Air Alaska flights, and this time around I seem to have got some payments for UK Airlines playing it too! I'm not sure if this is one of those weird PRS things where they make guesses on where stuff gets played (e.g. if you have a song on BBC Radio you then sometimes get a payment for it getting played in GYMNASIA which, in the nicest possible way, is unlikely for most of my stuff) or whether it means that OTHER airlines have heard it and decided that yes, that IS the perfect song for airborne festivities.
Elsewhere there were various odd places for songs to be played, like Hey Hey 16K on the radio in Hong Kong, People Who Stand In The Door in Germany, Hey William in both China and Cyprus, and Work's All Right (if it's a proper job) in the US of A. I guess I can understand Hey Hey 16K being played somewhere (although did they have ZX Spectrums in Hong Kong?), but it is strange and also lovely when I see songs which SHALL WE SAY are not QUITE as well-known as others which are still getting airplay.
Strangest of all though was a (tiny) payment for Everybody Let's Get Together due to it being used in a Chilean version of 'Arrested Development' on Netflix! That can't be right, can it? I have a feeling this MAY be a mis-categorisation by PRS, in which case I will happily be deducted my 42p in earnings next time around, but still, it's a rather fabulous thought that that tiny song which I initially wrote decades ago as yet another failed attempt at an ADVERT commission could eventually find it's way into the background of a TV show on the other side of the world. Even if it didn't!

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Leicesterval Is Announced Great joy rang around my world ...

2026-10-16T04:32:49Z

Leicesterval Is Announced

Great joy rang around my world yesterday as the line-up for LEICESTERVAL 2027 was announced, and LO! Hibbett & Christopher are on it!
This gig was booked with Mr S Tyers MONTHS ago and ever since I have been desperate to a) add it to The Database Of ROCK and b) SHOW OFF about it, and so I was mightily pleased to find that this momentous day had finally come. I was ALSO delighted to see lots of PALS and FELLOW TRAVELLERS playing at various points over the weekend and ESPECIALLY to to see that Language Of Flowers are playing - I was disappointed I couldn't go and see their comeback gig a few weeks ago, but now I can see them in lovely Leicester. HOORAH!
SOCIALS etc being what they are in the modern climate means that Simon also supplied us with our own "tile", which is what they call it now for one of them SQUARES on Instagram that have, for many purposes, replaced the old-fashioned gig poster. Here it is:
You may be wandering why I have not already shared the above on The Socials MYSELF, and the answer is straightforward, if somewhat cloaked in mystery. For LO! I certainly AM going to be sharing this on socials, but probably not until next week and probably not (directly at least) on my USUAL socials. For LO! AGANE! a whole new SUITE of WEB STUFF is coming your way, along with ANOTHER exciting announcement which I have been DESPERATE to share with all and sundry for almost as long. Consider yourself... ENTHRALLED!!

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