Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington)
@mccookerybook
Songwriter, illustrator, writer: three people, one heart! Solo album 'Showtunes from the Shadows' out now on Tiny Global. Bandcamp Website Youtube
Just getting ready for this today in #sheffield at the Channing Hall! It starts at 3, I'm on at 5.30 with @crumbsband @steve_dore_ @sassyhiya @themiddleones @milkywimpshake See you there!
In @Halifax tomorrow- great line-up, great venue! The Grayston Unity, 2 p.m.
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social Swell Maps in session (excellent), Sly and the Family Stone, Kevin Ayers (apt song), The Cravats, brilliant Go-Betweens song, Maisy Owen, Osees, Tenderness Drew a funicular operator near Aviemore Aviemore, what's the score?
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social The Cravats, Edwyn Collins, WELFARE, Roy Orbison, Harmonia, Devo (shouting as usual!), studio jinx, and baaadge that I think I know but wot if I get it wrong? Drew a gull pondering on a boat in Folkestone, coloured pencils melting!
Ding dong! I now have a supply of my books to sell at gigs etc!
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social Lande Hekt in session, Anne Peebles, Nev Clay, Musical Youth, Yummy Fur, the Sonics, The Barracudas, Trashcan Sinatras and more! Drew a woman painting a fan in Valencia (not that sort of fan)
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social & @gidcoe.bsky.social Ann Peebles session from John Peel (lovely), the Lueembourg Signal (❤️), Richard and Linda Thompson, Neu, Margaret Glaspy (that voice!), Sex Pistols, Ty Segall, Scud Mountain Boys (next kitchen to mine) Drew women knitting, Waverley Station
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Missed you last week! Late start with auto-soul playing due to gremlins in the works. Hollow Hand in session, Motorhead, T Rex, David Bowie. Drew a man watching a log train going through Carlisle Station
Coming up very soon at The Grayston Unity in Halifax! www.seetickets.com/event/aftern...
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Maisy Owen session; more La Luz, The Atlantics, Eric Jupp & His Music (incl. didgeridoo) from Skippy the Bush Kangaroo LP; Orchestra Baobab, Frank Sinatra, The Rascals (luvly), Mexican Institute of Sound etc. Drew street musician, melodica & unintended large hand
Traffic show from @gidcoe.bsky.social tonight. Velvets and Modern Lovers (that's the 2nd best Velvets song), great La Luz song, Alison Limerick, St Etienne, New Spearmint (wow!), Swell Maps, Stone Anthem, The Flamingoes I'm behind with posters so started one for Robert's new stuff & mine in October
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Juni Habel in concert. How very lovely. Have just got back from forest in Scotland. Perfect! Also La Luz, James Taylor Quartet, Guy Hamper Trio, Ginnie Astley, Trashcan Sinatras, Swell Maps, Bim Sherman Drew woman streaming a live make-up tutorial from tube carriage
Gatehouse-of-Fleet festival, next weekend!
Looking forward to supporting Pauline Murray at the Prince Albert in Brighton, 2 p.m. tomorrow afternoon Tickets: www.seetickets.com/event/paulin...
Singing 'Oh Bondage, Up Yours!' at The British Library screening (our first) of 'Stories from the She-Punks', ten years ago. With Gina Birch, Tessa Pollitt (The Slits) and Jane Mo-Dette, and also Zoe Howe on cardboard box 'drums' and Karina Townsend on tenor sax- plus the audience!
Come to this if you can!
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Monochrome Set in session, Teenage Fan Club, Joan as Policewoman, Mississippi Fred McDowell (Beefheart loved him), John Spencer, Subway Sect, Stevie Wonder, Jimmy Hughes, Emily Magpie Drew a woman yawning at the cheese stall
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Clarence Carter, Jackie Mittoo, Regina Collage, Lisa O'Neill, Miracle Legion, Azimuth, Eddie Doyle, Ojn, The Durutti Column, Alison Cotton, more Drew a man enjoying the sun, Whitby
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social The Astronauts, The Surfers, The Damned, Steel Pulse (you tell 'em!), Teenage Fan Club, The Lotus Eaters, Jon Spencer in session, Luluc, Laura Veirs, John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett Drew a man playing a Berimbau in the park
Playing theremin at the Jack White art show, Newport Gallery, Vauxhall
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Orchestras: Tony Hatch and Alan Moorhouse, in full, Luke Haines, Folk Devils, The Cramps!!! (lost music coming soon), The American Analog Set, Fatoumata Diawara, Loop Drew a station chap at Bruton station
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Love, Burns, Mary Owen, Assa'd Khoury, Marlena Shaw, James Adrian Brown, The Hanging Starts, Django Reinhardt, Jon Spencer, Durutti Column, Half Man Half Biscuit, Carl Perkins rockin' Drew a woman photographing dried fish in Valencia Market
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Radhika, Part Time Punks, Scrimshire, Hawkwind, Yo La Tengo, Mazart Estate, Alison Cotton Drew a couple with a vintage Morris, but was s-l-o-w tonight because it's so hot!
Just changed my guitar strings, and the bloody guitar just lay there and did nothing to help!!!
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Jon Spencer, Kelley Stoltz, Edward Barton (frightening, especially twice), Immersion, Brassy, Office Dog, Judee Sill (love that, remember it), Alternative TV, The Seeds. Great show. Drew a beach seller, Valencia
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Andy Williams, Hannah Cohen, Alternative TV, Elliott Smith, Maximilian, Funkadelic, John Spencer, Big Long Sun, more! Drew a woman with a flower stall
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Crack Cloud, Du Blonde, Faces, The Pop Group, Mark Stewart, Pina Palau, Agnes Obel, Jon Spencer, more! Man directs traffic, Rothesay ferry
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Session from Tai Hef Web Drigolyn, merry chaos! Personal Trainer, Aldous Harding, Nick Drake, Edwin R Stevens (brill), Office Dog, Television, Ann Peebles, Du Blonde, La Sécurité, The Bug Club Drew a man on the tube in London in a tweed suit
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