Helen McCookerybook

Papa Was A Rolling Pin.

Friday, July 31, 2015

Thoughts About Old Toys

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I used to have one of these little fellers with cymbals. It used to clash them together so noisily and so excitedly that it fell over regula...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

The Film 'Inside Out'

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People have talked about the Numskulls in DC comics (was it The Topper?), and idly I'd thought about all those people running around and...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

The In-shops

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Where did you get those chips? The in-shops. Where? In there... in the shopping centre.
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Graduation

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Yesterday I went to Offsprog Two's graduation in Brighton. It was moving, once the brisk PR vids were over and the Vice Chancellor's...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Dual Carriageway Reading

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I am simultaneously finishing Jo Nesbo's The Snowman and Christine Battersby's Gender and Genius . Have I read one with one side of...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

The Bad Fairy

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I'm writing a song about The Bad Fairy At The Christening, tonight.

Mary Fogarty's Write Up of the KISMIF Dance Performance

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This is from Mary's blog; apologies for the mirrored referencing! Interesting to see the nod in the direction of the Fat Slags, who stil...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Storm in a Teacup: for Today's Rain

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This was written by Lynsey De Paul who passed away earlier this year. One of the singers is now a tax exile living in Skibbereen. He stand...

Cornelia Parker's Magna Carta at the British Library

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Cornelia Parka, Magna Carter... almost poetry. Or sort of poetry. Cornelia Parker is a genius. Although aesthetically, the perfection of th...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Focusing

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I have completed an entire section of my research- a short section, but a significant one, and I've realised that I can finish it by my ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Snaps from the KISMIF Conference, Porto

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Alistair Gordon and Mike Dines from the Punk Scholars Network; Mary Fogarty and Helen Dinard trap a colleague in a web of handbags at thei...

The Whirligig Feather, the Bridge and the Butterfly

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A tortoiseshell butterfly lay flattened on the paving stones on the bridge, too beautiful to stand on and too beautiful to be left for anyon...
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Monday, July 20, 2015

Lipstick and Dyamite

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What a brilliant film! It's touching, inspiring and quirky all at the same time; Moolah is the scary centre of it all, with her business...
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Friday, July 17, 2015

Doomed Gallery Tomoz

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This is an article about Offsprog One's event tomorrow. I am tremendously proud! http://sangbleu.com/2015/07/14/women-of-wrestling-at-d...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Trap

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A woodlouse has been trapped by the pheromone moth trap.
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Music at http://helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com I can't decide what I want to be. I thought I was an illustrator, and then I turned into a musician by accident. Along the way I've wanted to be a fireman and HGV driver and it's getting too late now! I can't stop writing songs, and if I did, I'd not be able to stop drawing pictures. I wish I could play piano, trumpet and accordion. . I nearly bought a motorbike (BSA Bantam), but spent the money on a bass amplifier instead and joined Joby and the Hooligans in 1977. They morphed into The Chefs, and then I formed Helen and the Horns. I can't resist going into charity shops and buying clothes which I often take back the next day. I've written two books: 'The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era', and 'She's At The Controls: Sound Engineering, Production and Gender Ventriloquism in the 21st Century' under the name Helen Reddington, which are available to buy from https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/shes-at-the-controls/ (and will be in your local library) I eat Magnum Classics all summer long, and mini-poppadums all winter. In spring and autumn, I don't eat anything.
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