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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · -1867s

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

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Helen McCookerybook Helen McCookerybook's songs cover everything from the social impact of new technology to wry observations about relationships. Now a solo guitarist/vocalist influenced by Linda Lew...

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 21h

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

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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.

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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!

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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...

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Doc N' Roll: Punk Brighton + Q&A | Rio Cinema

Showing from Thu 29 Oct

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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)

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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

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Louder Than Words Festival @lthanwordsfest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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.

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Gigs! Sept 12 The Waiting Room w Caroline Trettine dice.fm/.../yow2w2-c.... Oct 11 Betsey Trotwood w Robert Rotifer wegottickets.com/f/22135 Nov 12 Old Hairdresser’s Glasgow w Lorraine Lucas wegottickets.com/f/26674 Nov 22 The Knowle, Bristol w Anna Kessel Dec 18 Brighton Prince Albert w Asbo Derek

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's #bandcampfriday 'Showtunes from the Shadows' now available direct from my own site. While stocks last choose free 7" of either The Pop-Up Chefs, Saturday Night with The London Set, or Cailin Morin Sa with physical copies ordered (message 2 choose) helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/album/showtu...

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Showtunes from the Shadows, by Helen McCookerybook

12 track album

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Katherine Priddy, Dur-Dur Band, Protomartyr, Language of Flowers, Joe Gibbs, Vanishing Twin. Can't believe I spent days embroidering my name & left out small 'c' in McCookerybook. Had to remedy that instead of drawing. Also I play bass with upstrokes with a pick!

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's officially Autumn, apple season: this is from seven years ago. What fun making this video with Ruth Tidmarsh! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xw7...

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social on catch-up Echo nd the Bunnymen, Otis Clay, David Sylvian (gem), Deerhunter, Young Knives, Deerhunter, The Doors, Ivor Cutler, Once And Future Band, Servotron Drew people drawing and photographing a blues band at Café Boheme, Soho

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Dolly Parton ❤️, The Family Battenberg, Laura Gibson, Hercules & Love Affair, Talking Heads, Pom Poco, Slug, Formal Sppeedwear, Agnes Obel (WOW!!) Drew the shoeshine man waiting for customers in the arcade

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Lande Hekt, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Autocamper, Weevie Stonder, Ish and the Meantime, Plaid, Ish and the Meantime Drew part of a huge film crew, Denmark Street, London

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Loving track by Fabienne Delsol! Radical Friendship Theory (hello @robertrotifer.bsky.social ), and a shoutout to @glasgoespop.bsky.social; Elvis, I Roy and Leo, Junior Walker & the All Stars, The Passions, Spencer Cullum, Penelope Isles Drew lost doll in the weeds

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A vote of confidence for my new songs from Gary Trueman at www.devolutionmagazine.co.uk 'Helen McCookerybook wins the room over with her beautiful voice and brave, deeply personal songwriting. Tackling serious themes with pure heart and soul' Just what I need to hear today!

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The UK’s only truly independent alternative lifestyle magazine, covering music releases, live reviews through models, photographers, fashion to events.

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social David Bowie, Thee Headcoats, Personal Trainer, The Rutles, British Birds, Virna Lindt, more Drew a man walking past Ronnie Rude in Blackpool this weekend

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Waiting to go on at the Almost Acoustic stage at Rebellion Punk festival, Blackpool. I played a set of entirely new songs about Brighton in 1977, which I'm currently recording for an album. I think it went OK!

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

From the High Tide Festival, Twickenham, a couple of weeks ago- with Lester Square, Ruth Tidmarsh and Karina Townsend www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmOr...

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social The Teardrop Explodes, White Denim, Elanor Moss, Memphis Minnie, the Yummy Fur, Joan as Policewoman, Close Lobsters Drew a Blackpool Street Trader with fluffy little things on sticks

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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

1980, Sussex By The Sea. The Chefs featured the wonderful @mccookerybook.bsky.social

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Suburban stories, fractured friendships, puncturing power: Showtunes from the Shadows is here for you on #BandcampFriday! helenmcc.bandcamp.com/album/showtu...

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Showtunes from the Shadows, by Helen McCookerybook

12 track album

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Can't get to Rebellion? Watch our documentary instead! Wit and wisdom from Gina Birch, Lucy O'brien, Liz Naylor, Viv Albertine, June Miles-Kingston, Jane Woodgate, Jane Dowsett Lesley Woods, Liz Naylor, Trash, Karen Gymslip, The Dollymixture and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zki9...

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social & @gidcoe.bsky.social Stonker of a show! Elaine Moss in session, Soul Revivers and Vin Gordon, The Odyssey Cult, Shonen Knife, Squirrel Flower, Weekend, Kavus Torabi, Jeffrey Lewis Drew a woman with a nasty little dog in a pushchair on the tube

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social & @gidcoe.bsky.social Laughathon! I even lol'd at the cheeky Arab Strap song. TV on the Radio, British Birds, Dusty, King Salami & the Cumberland Three (xlnt), Pink Fairies, Katherine Priddy, Jeffrey Lewis & the Voltage Drew stylish women at vintage fair (WIP)

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Formal Sppedwear in session, Psychedelic Furs, Personal Trainer, Teenage Fanclub, the Golden Gate Quartet, Radical Friendship Theory, the Sexual Objects, Jeffrey Lewis, Trembling Bells Drew a dog's paw print in the sand (detail)

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Almost Acoustic at Rebellion Punk festival in Blackpool next Saturday- onstage at 6.30 p.m. when I'll be playing a set of brand new songs about the Brighton punk scene in 1977 #rebellion

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The origin of the film 'Stories from the She-Punks' with links: mccookerybook.blogspot.com/2026/07/she-...

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She-Punks: The Origin Of The Name

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Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Today is the birthday of cartoonist Jackie Ormes (Aug. 1, 1911-Dec. 26, 1985), the first Black woman to create a newspaper comic strip that was read nationally in the US. She created Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, Torchy in Heartbeats & Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger. Patty Jo became a toy doll.

A black and white photo of Ormes at her drawing table.

A black and white photo of Ormes with Patty Jo & Benjie dolls.

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

50 Years of punk! Time to share our DIY film 'Stories from the She-Punks: music with a different agenda' that was made to celebrate the 40th anniversary. Film by Gina Birch and Helen McCookerybook studio.youtube.com/video/zki9nj...

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social Loving Brigid Dawson and the Mothers Network, First Aid Kit, The Yummy Fur, Elanor Moss, British Birds, The Odyssey Cult, Margaret Glaspy (voice!), Thee (scary) Headcoats and more

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Simon Bazalgette @simonbazalgette.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Lovely to see Helen @mccookerybook.bsky.social at lunchtime at the Twickenham High Tide Festival, with the great Lester Square on guitar. Loved it!

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just the best way to send a Sunday lunchtime! With Lester Square, Karina Townsend and Ruth Tidmarsh after our gig at the Eel Pie Pub as part of Twickenham's High Tide Festival. An audience of superstars, stars and supers: what could be better! And a rousing rendition of 'At The Bathing Pond' too!

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Stop press! I'm honoured to be part of a supporting cast for Caroline Trettine's album launch on the 12th of September. Terry Edwards will join me for a couple of songs. Look at the line-up! Further details here: www.carolinetrettine.com

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Singing in the kitchen- a new song, but not ready to record live for Youtube!

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Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social Jetstream Pony, Arab Strap, Bessie Smith, Messenger Dub, Prefab Sprout, MC Solaar, Jessica Pratt, Luke Haines, The Notwist, break_fold: so much variety! Luvly. Drew the morning after the night before, Newcastle

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