Next gig is in Brighton! wegottickets.com/event/673409

Three Cheers for Toytown, from Tuesday night www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnEU...

Coming soon...

From last night. I can't remember what I was laughing at. It was such a great night. Go to see Essential Logic if you can- they are brilliant!

Happy birthday @gidcoe.bsky.social! Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social with Wedding Present session, great songs! Also Scritti Politti mini-song, BC Camplight, These New Puritans, The Wytches, Congratulations, and The Robins, The Cardiacs and more. Drew a steel pan player from The Melodians

BREAKING: Incomprehensible Shouting Named Official U.S. Language

We'll be playing this on Tuesday as part of our set supporting Essential Logic Tickets here: www.axs.com/uk/events/97... Real us, not Margaux the flying puppet! youtu.be/D2TJevPF774?... via @YouTube

Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social All sorts of music: Dennis Bovell band, Les Paul and Mary Ford (want to write a book about her), Fats Domino, Morton Valence, Cate Le Bon, Sexual Objects (love that song), Wreckless Eric, The Doors Drew two men stuffing a giant panda with expanded polystyrene, Soho

⚠️ One Week Warning! ⚠️ . Essential Logic • Live at The Lexington • 23/09 🎶🎷 w / special guests: . 💛 @mccookerybook.bsky.social 🖤 Exotic Pets 💛 Estella of @bigjoanieband.bsky.social (DJ Set) . 🎟️: linktr.ee/LoraLogic ✨ . #essentiallogic

Only a week to go! We're rehearsing today! Tickets here: www.axs.com/uk/events/97...

Essential Logic • Live at @thelexingtonlondon.bsky.social • 23/09 🎶🎷 w / special guests: . 🩷 @mccookerybook.bsky.social 🖤 Exotic Pets 🩷 Estella of @bigjoanieband.bsky.social (DJ Set) . 🎟️: linktr.ee/LoraLogic + 🔗🎄 in Bio . #essentiallogic #helenmccookerybook #exoticpets #estellaadeyeri #bigjoanie

Poster in progress for January

Thanks to @gidcoe.bsky.social for playing Autumn Rendezvous last night, right after @essentiallogic.bsky.social And announcing the show at The Lexington on 23rd September where I'll be supporting, plus Estelle from Big Joanie on the Decks and the Exotic Pets Tickets: www.axs.com/uk/events/97...

I contributed the track 'Voodoo Doll' to deXterBentley's @resonancefm.bsky.social 2025 'One Minute Wonder' show, repeated Saturday lunchtime. Amazing what people can pack into 60 seconds- it's really fun to listen to! hellogoodbyeshow.com/2025/09/07/h...

Listening 2 @marcrileydj.bsky.social & @gidcoe.bsky.social Tired after long rehearsal so drawing in black & white Tenuous links Herbie Hancock, The Scars (rifftastic record), De La Soul, Teardrop Explodes, McCarthy, Penelope Isles, Low (lovely) Drew man spreading asphalt (not same as manspreading)

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social Long Fling, Tropical F Storm session, Cocteau Twins, Cate Le Bon, Field Music, John Myrtle, The Divine Comedy and plenty of bantz Drew a cheerful sheep from Trent Park Animal Sanctuary

Sex Pistols, good for business! from 1978 or thereabouts:

I fergedd, I fergedd, I fergedd @marcrileydj.bsky.social on the radio: Stuart Moxham, superb raw Kinks session track, Lovely Eggs, Lling (see above), Bob Log 111 (twangalicious!), Krill (xlnt), Ezra Furman, Kiran Leonard Drew May Day Parade banners the other year, poor perspective but wot the heck

McCookerybook & Rotifer Song about what happens when you arrive as a refugee mccookerybookandrotifer.bandcamp.com/track/step-i...

What sort of Showtunes do they sing in the Shadows? Find out here! As played by @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social on their show, this was released in January on @tinyglobalmusic.bsky.social helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/album/showtu...

I still have some actual copies of the original vinyl 12" album of the 'Hell Hath No Horns' album #bandcampfriday helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/album/helen-...

helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-... from the CD album 'Drawing on my Dreams' (2023) Drawing done when I was 5 or 6, girl group sharing one dress #lazyme #bandcampfriday

'Three Maple Men', more old stuff on #bandcampfriday Digital only now, and recorded at The Cluny Studio, Byker, Newcastle The album 'Take One' is a completely acoustic album of songs recorded in one take. helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/track/three-...

This song is from my first ever solo CD 'Suburban Pastoral' I still have a very small number left #bandcampfriday helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/track/swan

From the archive, physical copies still available! #BandcampFriday helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/track/a-good...

Still a few of these limited-edition vinyl EPs available out of 100 pressed: helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/album/the-po... #bandcampfriday

Thank you for sharing it!

A protest song, dressed up all fancy helenmcc.bandcamp.com/track/three-...

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social & @gidcoe.bsky.social Loved Robert Lloyd & New Four Seasons one! Also Swell Maps, Balloon, Cate Le Bon, Hen Ogledd, great reggae instrumental frm The Flying Hats & session frm S.G. Goodman. Now wearing plaid shirt & jewellery like Bruce. Monster hand on pavement

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social & @gidcoe.bsky.social Half Man Half Biscuit, Geese, Insecure Men, Hollie Cook (LOVELY Lover's Rock tune), Burns Unit, Emma Pollock, The Chameleons, Lord Rochester, Monochrome Set, David Byrne Drew guests dressed for a wedding- very slow and difficult drawing!

On Saturday March 14th we will be launching the first Louder Than War live festival headlined by Sea Power...more bands to be announced soon! Festival will be in Manchester...grab a ticket as they are selling quick! #festival #manchester #seapower #johnrobb louderthanwar.com/louder-than-...

🎟️ @thelexingtonlondon.bsky.social 👉 aegp.uk/EssentialLogic 🪩 + @mccookerybook.bsky.social 🎸 + Exotic Pets 🦒 + Estella of @bigjoanieband.bsky.social (DJ Set)🎧 . Happy Sunday ☀️ . #loralogic #saxophone #rehersal #parispopfest #thelexington #live #xrayspex #saxophonist #happysunday #essentiallogic

The Chefs photo by Clare Barratt, used on our first EP on Attrix Records and probably taken around 1980. L to R: Russell Greenwood (drums), James McCallum ( guitar), Helen McCookerybook (bass and vocals), Carl Evans (guitar and vocals).

Dance! 24 Hours by The Chefs youtu.be/3b7W_anpji4?... via @YouTube

Original tape box for Freight Train and Pioneer Town, by Helen and the Horns, recorded at Elephant Studio, Wapping and released by Thin Sliced Records

Sleeping pencil case

McMum used to call this photo 'Helen and her mess'. Aged 22, I was tidying my flat and my friend Claire was a dab hand with a camera (she took the photo on the front of the first Chefs EP) Recorded John Peel shows on to cassettes with that cassette player. I taped over them of course- didn't we all?

Listening to @marcrileydj XLNT show Fantastic session from Sexual Objects (can't remember new name) + music from B52s, Freda Payne, Shopping, Mekons, John Spence Blues Explosion (complete perfect madness), BC Camplight, Tom Tom Club, Marc Bolan Drew the Flamstead Hawk and the Flamstead Hawk handler

Thinking in song helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/album/the-sea

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Geese, Cardiacs, Stevie Wonder, Teleman, La Securité (favourite track of the nite), Honk, Kevin Ayers (me and my bruv used to listen to him back in the day), Shopping, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Warmduscher (yay) Fancy any peanut brittle? Just making some!

Looking forward to playing with Robert and Ruth at the Lexington supporting @logic_essential on the 23rd September, with Exotic Pets and Estelle Adeyeri Tickets: aegp.uk/EssentialLogic Three Cheers for Toytown, Helen McCookerybook youtu.be/ZnD55As9x9g?... via @YouTube

@ianbutton.bsky.social, @mccookerybook.bsky.social, Alex Highton, Wreckless Eric, @andylewis.bsky.social (& through him the late Judy Dyble and Mike Thorne), John Howard, @philippeauclair.bsky.social, @darrenhayman.bsky.social. Could have more (sorry to friends not included!), but I ran out of time.

Same

Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Broadcast (beautiful song), The Sexual Objects, Abana Ba Nasery, Matchbox, Augustus Pablo, Terry Edwards (hello Terry, sounding good!), Prefab Sprout, John Canning Yates, and more, more... Drew a woman pushing a dust cart

@bylinetimes.bsky.social yes, but so few female journalists! I actually buy a copy, and am disappointed every time. Want a woke music writer?