The Validators are MJ Hibbett (guitar, vocals), Frankie Machine (bass), Tom McClure (strings), Emma Pattison (vocals) and Tim Pattison (drums).
Our latest release is A Million Ukeleles. It’s an MJ Hibbett solo album with 12 new recordings, featuring guest appearances by lovely people like Phil Wilson (June Brides), Charlie Flowers (The Fighting Cocks) and Pete Green, as well as The Validators! It’s available in a limited edition hand made version and on digital download, and we’ve got some VERY nice t-shirts to go with it.
Our last album was WE VALIDATE!. Artrocker called it "2006’s most worthwhile album" while The Morning Star said it was "a manifesto for living". The Word magazine said "MJ Hibbett should be a national institution", which was very nice of them!
In 2006 we played a live session from Maida Vale for Steve Lamacq’s Radio 1 Show.
In 2004 Rob Manuel’s video for Hey Hey 16K was a massive internet hit - it was in the top 10 sites on the internet for a week, and has had around 4 million downloads so far!
Our second album, This Is Not A Library was named Album Of The Year in Rolling Stone online. It’s sold out at the moment, but we’re hoping to re-release it in 2008.
Before The Validators, Tim was in Prolapse while Frankie was a member of The Almanacs and the live band for White Town.
MJ Hibbett & The Validators's Friend Space (Top 24)
You are invited to Katie & the Questions first gig at the Junction Leeman Road, York on the 9th July. Only £4 on the door.
Katie & The Questions were formed out the prefabs of North Yorkshire in June 2008, when Katie met guitar playing keyboardist ‘E’ after he advertised for someone to play ‘shove halfpenny’ with. They clicked over their love of guitar based music and decided to form a band.
Katie and the band play a pulsating brand of powerpop, new wave punkpop check them out at their myspace site
You are invited to Katie & the Questions first gig at the Junction Leeman Road, York on the 9th July. Only £4 on the door.
Katie & The Questions were formed out the prefabs of North Yorkshire in June 2008, when Katie met guitar playing keyboardist ‘E’ after he advertised for someone to play ‘shove halfpenny’ with. They clicked over their love of guitar based music and decided to form a band.
Katie and the band play a pulsating brand of powerpop, new wave punkpop check them out at the myspace
The Bon Bon Club are Sushi Quatro (bass, vox), Thirsty Moore (drums,vox) and Chapatti Smith (perc, vox), although Sushi and Thirsty are better known under different names for their day job as the rhythm section of Sheffield glam-popsters The Long Blondes.
hello, you can now listen to 6 (six) of our new songs. though this actually means three proper new songs, one re-recorded old song, a new iteration of the magic road and a cover of a smog song.
anyway, please plant our songs in your social-networking allotment.
Hey! I play "The Ballad Of Alan Moore" in my May show for Dandelion Radio - The online radio station inspired by John Peel!
To listen go to our spanking new website at http://www.dandelionradio.com and click on the link on the front page! You will be able to hear my show at least once a day for the whole of May! Plus a host of other shows playing an eclectic variety of new and unreleased music! See schedule on website for details!
That bass must've been potent! Great set at the Bandstand, Mark! There's a Titanic real ale pub nearby that we could maybe tempt you with, on a future popshow occasion! x
hello! there are a couple of lovely things coming up, I hope you like them!
The first: Monday May 12th... envelopes!! coming back again to see us!! sooo good!! www.myspace.com/envelopes
bringing their special friend SPORTSDAY MEGAPHONE minimal dancing stardust!! www.myspace.com/sportsdaymegaphone
plus special sweethearts DOG YEARS www.myspace.com/dogyearsmusic at The Cumberland Arms (www.thecumberlandarms.co.uk) 8pm - £7 advance, available now.
Then..... Bank Holiday Weekend Sunday May 25th
our old friends THE LODGER
new single / album out on Bad Sneakers with bouncing bass and
extra jangle. here is their new video which is reallly nice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGQ114DPvuY
www.myspace.com/thelodgerleeds plus:
ISOSCELES Glasgow art pop 'angulated white funk manoeuvres' on Art/Goes/Pop! video for their new single here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsK8r6hEDkU
wowowowo like orange juice / esg / bis / the zombies - I am really excited about this band!!! www.myspace.com/isoscelestheband
finally.... there is a new issue of The Cuckoo Press coming out soon!! watch out for updates.. we have a couple of very limited edition spaces left for nice adverts, so if you know anyone who would like to be involved as a sponsor, drop us a line!!
Thought we’d let you know that we’ll "Do The Indie Kid" on Bristol Uncovered this Sunday morning on BBC Radio Bristol between 1-3am. Hear it live or anytime in the 7 days after broadcast using the on line "Listen Live/Again" feature on the BBC i-Player, there's a link to it from our profile.
Happy Dynamic Living!
Richard Pitt & Gary Smith Bristol Uncovered on BBC Radio Bristol
Stevie L's show turned me on to your Indie Kid - fabulous and very Half Man Half Crumpet. I shall soon invest in your £25 grab bag offer, as soon as the wagepacket arrives down here in Cornwall... Come down here and gig my friend - Checkout Club Cuckoo in Camden and Cornwall for venues and cash - Ask for Liam Jolly (he the man!)
Hope you are having a nice day MJ Hibbett & The Validators
Buy Tickets Now http://www.wegottickets.com/event/29335
The Mae Shi
"There are echoes of The Blood Brothers and Les Savy Fav here, spread across tracks that fluctuate between crunching riffs and 8-bit FX....It’s impossible not to be awed by the urgency of their performance" [Downed In Sound] "Exploding every single genre ever (except maybe dubstep) kind of like a hairier Test Icicles." [NME]
Find out more [ http://www.myspace.com/themaeshi , http://www.mae-shi.com/ , http://www.moshimoshimusic.com/artists/the-mae-shi
JOHNNY FOREIGNER
“Forward-thinking young guitar-slingers...turbo-charged, noisy and downright promising” NME "…a breathless, deathless rush of possibilities, Ritilan rock exploding with ideas and imagination." Kerrang! “Some of the most exciting indie-pop sounds put to record by a British band in a long while… domestic debut release of the year – hands down.” Drowned In Sound
[ http://www.myspace.com/johnnyforeigner]
PYGMY GLOBETROTTERS
[ http://www.myspace.com/pygmyglobetrotters ]
If that isn't enough for you, we have some extra special guest DJ's for a little post band disco.
Rob Webb [Drowned In Sound/NME] Comme Ci COMME CA/Fringe Benefits
And the debut outing for Sheffield's most exciting new DJ troupe.
Pickers, Knickers and Shit Kickers [Fuzz Club/redcarsgofaster]
The Details: 20th May 9pm-3am £5 Upstairs @ DQ Fitzwilliam Street
