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Mike Gibb has been involved with the world of show music for the last fifteen years in the capacity of editor of UK based magazine, MASQUERADE, and, until the magazine's sad demise in 2002, as UK correspondent of the American based quarterly, SHOW MUSIC. He currently contributes a regular CD review column to the magazine, SPOTLIGHT ON MUSICALS.
He has long been concerned with the fact that if you ask anyone with any interest in the theatre to name a Scottish musical they will invariably answer "Brigadoon". Brigadoon, with its American image of a Scotland where everyone lives amongst heather covered hills, clad from head to foot in tartan and goes about saying "Aye Laddie" most of the time.
In an effort to try to overcome that vision, back in 1995 he began work on a musical about real Scots and real Scottish issues. Six long, and at times traumatic years later, A Land Fit For Heroes eventually enjoyed its full premiere.
Following on the success of A Land Fit For Heroes, Mike began work on a second musical play with a Scottish theme. Mother of All the People brought to the stage the remarkable story of the life of Mary Slessor, the Aberdeen born missionary, following her from the slums and mills of Dundee through her work in the Dundee Mission Halls to her years living in the deepest jungles of Calabar.
Mike has recently completed a third Scottish musical play titled The Day That Haomooth Died. It is the story of a fictional family caught up in the all to real events of Black Friday, October 14th 1881, the day of the Eyemouth Fishing Disaster.
He has also recently finished work on a one-act play titled What Goes Around with music by Edinburgh classical composer Julian Wagstaff
