Helen McCookerybook

It's funny what a good recording session can do for you. We have two really good bilingual songs in the bag, one of which ticks rather a...

Photos by Ian Button and Robert Rotifer.

A few weeks ago, I did the perfectly normal and equally perfectly annoying thing of leaving a tissue in my trousers pocket when I put them i...

My students are writing protest songs about the climate emergency, so I went to this talk tonight. Words later in the week.

What I am writing is a chapter for the Oxford Anthology of Punk , covering women punk bands and violence and noise. I don't think the ...

Rehearsing for Tuesday's recording session with Robert and Ian; almost-finishing in an academic article (I've lost a photocopy of an...

Probably singing Heavy Metal covers, I imagine.

Voila! Three boxes of miniature 7" albums, 33 1/3 albums in each box= 100 albums. All ready to be hand-finished. Release date February...

There is something quite peaceful about writing again after a few very hectic weeks of teaching. I have been working seven and eight hour d...

A hundred records in three boxes, miniature albums playing at thirty-three-and-a-third RPM. Do you think there are thirty three and a third...

Somehow, I ended up on a train to Glasgow on Friday to visit Kenji and Till, armed with a thick academic book to read and an article to corr...

I have my records!

In theory, I have my records. They have been delivered a stone's throw from here to a shop in the shopping centre that I can't get ...

It's almost impossible to describe the atmosphere at the gig on Saturday. The venue, which holds 1000 people, was packed with people of ...