Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington)

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Session from The Wedding Present, prog-adjacent new songs. Nightingales new single, love it, Kleenex, Nervous Norvus, Pys Melin, Iconic Fugues, Colin Newman Drew a man selling silverware on Portobello Road

Next gig! Thursday 12th November at The Old Hairdresser's Glasgow with Lorraine Lucas, presented by @glasgoespop.bsky.social wegottickets.com/f/26674/

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Finished mixing!

What a treat we have in store for sure! Over the moon to be welcoming Zoe Howe back to Louder Than Words Fest! Join Zoe in conversation with @mccookerybook.bsky.social Sun 15 Nov, 4.15pm Typical Girls? The Story of The Slits @omnibuspress.bsky.social All tickets: tinyurl.com/49hp3k2j

Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Margaret Glaspy session Music by The Lovely Basement (hello!), Neil Young, Matthews Southern Comfort, Fruit Tones, Miss Ludella Black, Laurel Aitken, Arborist, Bo DiddleyDiddleyDaddy, & Amos Milburn & his Aladdin Chickenshackers Drew person knitting at desk in shop

Todmorden!

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Out and about again soon! Next gig is at The Old Hairdresser's in Glasgow on November 12th, where I'll be playing solo. Tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/26674/ #glasgowmusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq25...

Final date on my book tour is 14th November at @lthanwordsfest.bsky.social. I'm on a "Women and punk" panel with @mccookerybook.bsky.social and @mollytie.bsky.social, and very much looking forward to meeting them. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/atypical-g...

Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Stonker of a show full of autumnal melancholy: The Railway Children, Hann, Yoruba Singers, Aztec Camera, The Doors, Captain Beefheart, Scrimshire, Mose Allison, Black Bananas, Chi-lites, oh and THE NIGHTINGALES! What a track! Drew a woman cleaning a big window

‘Autumn walk’ (From a pre-war Ladybird - circa 1935) Artist: Rene Cloke

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Next one in #glasgow! wegottickets.com/f/26674

London Land, from Sunday Day With Terry Tyldesley and Ruth Tidmarsh at the Betsey Trotwood www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq25...

Thanks for coming along! We had such a great afternoon!

Friday evening viewing! Stories from the She-Punks: music with a different agenda (Gina Birch an... youtu.be/zki9nj8tjZA?... via @YouTube

At The Betsey Trotwood this Sunday afternoon from 2 p.m. All new songs from me- The Darkside Truth, about the Brighton Punk Scene in 1977 and Robert Rotifer's Radical Friendship Theory Tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/22135/

Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social This is the Kit, D'Angelo ( love his music), Broadcast, The Leaf Library, Arborist, Wreckless Eric, Jill Scott, Matt DeMarco, Lavender, Slide, Broken Social Scene Had 3 fillings today; too tired to finish drawing Oompah Band playing 'Barbie Girl' down the South Bank

On Sunday afternoon in London! wegottickets.com/f/22135

Asset stripping, as always

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social Prolapse, The Flaming Stars, Jacques Brel, Pozi, Wu Tang Clan, British Birds, The Fall Drew man at the barbers

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Cabaret Voltaire in session British Birds, Art Brut, Gary Miller, White Fence, Gareth Sager, Britney Spears (!!) Drew a woman selling baskets on a market stall

Amended! 11/10 Betsey w Robert Rotifer wegottickets.com/f/22135 12/11 Old Hairdresser’s Glasgow w Lorraine Lucas wegottickets.com/f/26674 13/11 Todmorden w The Sunbathers 14/15 Louder Than Words 22/11 Bristol Knowle Club w Anna Kissel 18/12 Brighton Prince Albert wegottickets.com/f/23920

11/10 Betsey w Robert Rotifer wegottickets.com/f/22135 12/11 Old Hairdresser’s Glasgow w Lorraine Lucas wegottickets.com/f/26674 13/11 Todmorden w The Sunbathers 22/11 Bristol Knowle Club w Anna Kissel 18/12 Brighton Prince Albert wegottickets.com/f/23920

It's #bandcampfriday tomorrow, and I have these pre-release badges up there. Little punk cockatiel! helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/merch/the-da...

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social on catch-up John Cooper Clarke, Lande Hekt, The Kinks, Johnny Cash, Richard Dawson, Slide, Ill Ease, Mighty Sparrow Drawing a tour poster for the rest of the year

What a treat we have in store for sure! Over the moon to be welcoming Zoë Howe back to Louder Than Words Fest! Join Zoë in conversation with @mccookerybook.bsky.social Sunday 15th November, 4.15pm Typical Girls? The Story of The Slits. All tickets: tinyurl.com/49hp3k2j

Starting serious rehearsals this week for this gig on the 11th October at The Betsey Trotwood in London. It's a Sunday afternoon in a cosy pub with a bunch of lovely people. Come on down and join us! wegottickets.com/f/22135

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social Very funny! Drawing wobbly lines and swaying Ezra Furman, Anna Erhard, Magic Arm, Nick Nicely, Fire Engines (!!!), Prolapse, Richard Dawson, Leonard Cohen, Hannah Hu Drew a couple photographing man outside the Royal Robemakers

Playing my cream and white Jedson bass in Joby and the Hooligans, The Buccaneer, Brighton in 1977, with reggae fan Dub Duncan on drums. Upstrokes only @gidcoe.bsky.social and @marcrileydj.bsky.social probably because I taught myself. I still can't do downstrokes, but don't tell anyone.

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Grandmaster Flash, Gareth Sager, This Is The Kit, Thee Cybermen, Pina Palau, Davey Woodward, The Yummy Fur, Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot, Richard Dawson, Jimi Tenor Drew a juggler in the park

Badge time! These have just shown up, a million years before the LP has even finished being mixed. But... today I found the perfect bass sound! Yee-ha! Not long to go now!

Doc'n'Roll punk Brighton documentary (also will be screened in Brighton on 28th October) Rio Dalston, 29th October That's me in the red checked shirt at the end of the line next to Johnny Piranha! riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/What...

Come to my gig in #Glasgow on Thursday 12th November! Tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/26674

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social A Certain Ratio and Bubbles in session. Anna Erhard (love it), Hanna Hu, The Ronettes, ,The Adverts, Len Barry, The Yummy Fur, more Drew a Pearly Queen watching a magician

Don't miss out on this- a one-off event with Kenji Kenji travelling all the way from Glasgow to sing with Robert Rotifer who is travelling all the way from Berlin. I'll be travelling all the way from Barnet, singing songs about Brighton that I wrote in Newcastle upon Tyne! wegottickets.com/f/22135

Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Good rockin' Coe number, George Thumper Jones! Alison Cotton in session, Spratleys, Kid Congo Powers, Taftir, Denim, The Kinks, Francoise Hardy, Peggy Lee Drew a Warburtons Toastie Loaf gone mouldy on the ground in Gipsy Hill, London

Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social on catch-up The Bodines, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Felt (loved that one), The Forty Fours, Arun Sood and Angeline Morrison, Lande Hekt Drew businessmen in blue suits having a street meeting (unfinished)

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Durutti Column, Mark Lanegan, Laura Veirs, The Damned, Captain Beefheart, Yummy Fur, Ty Segal, Billy Fury, Pozi, more Drew dodgems in Brighton

My next gig will be the Betsey Trotwood, Sunday 11th October at 2 p.m. with @robertrotifer.bsky.social playing songs from his great new album. I'll be playing a brand new set of songs from an album I'm now mixing, The Darkside Truth. Artwork ready before album! Tickets: wegottickets.com/f/22135

Wowzers! Our Women in Punk panel #Louder2026 is going to be a belter! Join @mollytie.bsky.social @pennykiley.bsky.social @mccookerybook.bsky.social @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social for a brilliant & pertinent discussion Sat 14 Nov, 2,15pm: The Innside Manchester All tickets: tinyurl.com/bddvrx3a

Tonight at The Waiting Room, Stoke Newington dice.fm/event/yow2w2...

This is my Gran's banjo. I have a photograph of her playing it in Vermont when she was a young woman, & it has just been given to me. It needed a new bridge, tuning peg and strings (fake gut, because the tuners are probably bakelite and therefore very fragile). I loved her very much, & she loved me.

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Half Man Half Biscuit, Aldous Harding, Anna B Savage, Kevin Ayers (one of brother James's favourites), The Beach Boys, Kiran Leonard, Richard Dawson, Bo Diddley, Area Code 615 Drew a vlogger in Soho

Manchester: Women & Punk panel at @lthanwordsfest.bsky.social with @mollytie.bsky.social and @mccookerybook.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/atypical-g...