MJ Hibbett

Mark John ("MJ") Hibbett (born 19 June 1970) is an English guitarist singer-songwriter, often compared to Billy Bragg[1][2] and Richard Digance.

The song gained larger acclaim when an animated music video for the track, created by Rob Manuel, was released in 2004.

[3] Hibbett later collaborated with Manuel, who directed the music video for his song "The Gay Train".

[4] In 2004, Hibbett gained national exposure in the United Kingdom, on the Steve Lamacq show on BBC 6 Music, by regularly performing "The Fair Play Trophy (Again)", a song whose lyrics were updated for each rendition to reflect the then-ongoing events of the UEFA European Football Championship.

This was later published by SpringerLink in 2024 as Data and Doctor Doom: An Empirical Approach To Transmedia Characters (ISBN 978-3-031-45175-1).