Official booking EPK · Boston, Massachusetts
A one-of-a-kind live opportunity.
World On Fire is a five-piece tribute to Stick Figure, built for talent buyers who need a faithful show, professional advance, and a dependable production partner.
FORMATS
BEST FIT
ADVANCE
THE LIVE EXPERIENCE
INDUSTRY SIZZLE REEL
FULL PERFORMANCE 01
EDGE OF THE OCEAN
Complete song · World On Fire live
FULL PERFORMANCE 02
WEIGHT OF SOUND
Complete song · World On Fire live
FULL PERFORMANCE 03
WORLD ON FIRE
Complete song · World On Fire live
ABOUT WORLD ON FIRE: A TRIBUTE TO STICK FIGURE
Built by musicians who hear the spaces between the notes.
World On Fire began with a shared respect for the production detail and emotional connection at the heart of Stick Figure’s music. Founders Jim Merrikin and Doug Roerden both attended Berklee in 1983, but did not meet until years later while working together at Fidelity Investments. Decades of musical experience now shape every performance.
The result is a polished five-piece tribute built for festivals, concerts, theaters, and open-air stages, faithful to the studio productions while delivering the energy, spontaneity, and audience connection of a heartfelt live performance.
JIM MERRIKIN
Berklee College of Music alumnus Jim Merrikin founded World On Fire to faithfully recreate the immersive studio sound of Stick Figure. A lifelong keyboard player, arranger, songwriter, and synthesizer enthusiast, Jim provides the band’s musical vision, sonic architecture, and relentless attention to detail.
DOUG ROERDEN
Berklee alumnus Doug Roerden brings more than four decades of professional performance, musical direction, and arranging experience to World On Fire. His focus on groove, rhythmic precision, and musical support creates the dependable foundation that lets the band’s music breathe naturally.
THE LINEUP
Singer-songwriter TJ Doyle brings more than 25 years of performance experience and a lifelong love of reggae to World On Fire. His ability to authentically navigate Scott Woodruff’s shifting vocal styles while remaining true to his own voice gives the music both honesty and heart.
Originally from London, guitarist, songwriter, and producer Stef Pits has been playing reggae since his teens. His instinct for tone, texture, rhythm, and melodic restraint recreates the spacious guitar sound that has become a signature of Stick Figure’s recordings.
Self-taught bassist Jeff Foster has immersed himself in Stick Figure’s music for more than a decade, inspired by its melodic bass lines and layered production. His pocket-first approach, tonal accuracy, and commitment to serving the song anchor World On Fire’s unmistakable groove.
REPRESENTATIVE REPERTOIRE
The songs audiences came to feel.
Flexible set architecture supports concert-series, theater, festival, casino, and private-event programming.
THE BUYER CASE
The catalog already has the crowd.
BILLBOARD POSITION
#1
Highest-ranked living act on Billboard’s Year-End Reggae Albums Artist chart for six consecutive years, trailing only Bob Marley & The Wailers in 2024.
RECORDED DEMAND
3B+
The official artist biography reports more than three billion streams and over one million catalog units.
HEADLINE TOURING
100K+
Pollstar reporting cited by Forbes recorded more than $8 million gross across twelve 2025 headlining dates.
BILLBOARD POSITION
World on Fire, Set in Stone, and Wisdom all placed in Billboard’s 2024 Year-End Reggae Albums Top 10.
AUDIENCE PROXY
Adult fans. Destination behavior. Meaningful onsite spend.
Stick Figure has risen to headliner status at California Roots, one of reggae-rock’s flagship festivals. Because the festival publishes sponsor research about its attendees, California Roots provides the closest documented comparison for understanding the likely audience for this music. That research describes a predominantly adult, destination-oriented audience with significant per-day onsite spending.
AGES 25 - 44
AGE 25 OR OLDER
Average onsite spend per attendee, per day
Documented destination travel
A catalog with proven headline-scale demand.
An adult audience proxy with documented onsite spend.
A full-night experience with flexible show formats.
Age and spend figures are a clearly labeled California Roots audience proxy—not a claim about every Stick Figure listener. Public household-income data was not used because a verifiable artist-level source was not found.
DEMAND GENERATION
YOUR STAGE.
OUR SHARED PROMOTIONAL COMMITMENT.
Band-funded
A dedicated campaign for every engagement.
World On Fire establishes a show-specific marketing allocation scaled to the market, venue, on-sale window, and campaign opportunity, to complement the buyer's own marketing activites.
01 - INVESTMENT
Real resources
A defined band-funded allocation is established for each engagement.
02 - AMPLIFICATION
PAID REACH
Promotion is deployed where it can reinforce the local ticket-sales plan.
03 - AUDIENCE
OWNED CHANNELS
Social platforms and the band’s growing email list carry coordinated campaign messaging.
04 - PARTNERSHIP
BUYER ALIGNMENT
Timing, creative, ticket links, and calls to action align with the buyer’s campaign.
OWNED AUDIENCE ACTIVATION
Market-specific messaging carried across every channel.
The final channel mix and timing are shaped around the market, on-sale window, and the buyer’s campaign so both sides reinforce the same message.
PRODUCTION-READY
Fast venue integration. Consistent show delivery.
World On Fire arrives with a rehearsed technical workflow, clear advance communication, and the core systems needed to protect the show from room-to-room variables.
PRESS & BOOKING RESOURCES
Approved assets, clearly organized.
01 - COPY
SHORT BAND BIO
World On Fire: A Tribute to Stick Figure is a Boston-based band dedicated to faithfully recreating the immersive studio sound of Stick Figure in a compelling live performance. Founded by Berklee College of Music alumni Jim Merrikin and Doug Roerden, World On Fire brings together five experienced musicians with backgrounds spanning reggae, rock, jazz, songwriting, arranging, production, and decades of live performance. Focused on musical authenticity rather than costume imitation, the band delivers a polished, accessible Stick Figure experience for festivals, theaters, casinos, concert series, private events, and destination entertainment.
