Yes I can!
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@mccookerybook.bsky.social
Songwriter, illustrator, writer: three people, one heart! Solo album 'Showtunes from the Shadows' out now on Tiny Global. Bandcamp https://helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com Website https://www.mccookerybook.com Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@mccookerybook
Yes I can!
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A week today in Brighton!
I'm going to play mostly tracks from my 2017 album 'The Sea', and I'll have the lyrics book (a colouring book with the chords and lyrics) with download codes for the songs- just for a change!
Great bands!
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Listening to the excellent Prolapse in session on @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social show
Drawing a Shire Horse in Rothesay (unfinished: hard to draw)
Also Lovely Basement new single (hello!), New Jazz Experience with Terry Edwards the trumpet geezer, and great track from Junior Byles
@marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social making me snort with laughter tonight.
Silly chaps
Great music from Buzzcocks, Courtney Barnett, Brian Bilston etc, Sonnesnpot (loved that), Osees, Young Knives, Beak, Julia Jacklin, Bill Callahan and more
Drew a man on fish stall at market with fish
ANNOUNCING : The Nightingales U.K. Tour Feb 2026. Iβve selected some of our favourite spots to play our first headline dates in 3+ years! Come show us lot some love eh? Weβve missed you. Tickets will go on sale Friday 10AM π₯β‘οΈ www.thenightingales.org.uk/live
28.10.2025 10:14 β π 24 π 6 π¬ 5 π 0@willieg.bsky.social & me are just completing two Gaelic-language analogue synthpop songs.
Here's a much sillier collaboration from a few years ago with a fab video by Ruth Tidmarsh.
Endlessly relevant unfortunately!
Don't put cooking fat or wet wipes down the drain.
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Happy Wednesday!
Song a few months old, video newborn last weekend
Sixties Guy 4 U
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Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social
The Pursuit of Happiness, Tulpa, Imarhan, This is the Kit, The Sexual Objects, The Flamingoes (ooh!), Rural Tapes, Gary Olson, Orions Belte, Stuart Moxham, John Fahey
Great sounds for a Monday evening!
Drew a Nun waiting outside the Post Office
Oh, that Autumn Sunday knitwear!
Those smouldering glances from knitting-pattern-guys
How could the Sixties be so uncool?
Sunday 60s tune for you, from my album 'Showtunes from the Shadows' out on @tinyglobalmusic.bsky.social
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Thank you! I hope you're well!
17.10.2025 18:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0New video!
Dance while you do the dinner, to the Sixties Guy!
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Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social
Just hitting the spot tonight
Johnny Guitar Watson, The Olivia Tremor Control, Gwenifer Raymond (late brother's favourite), Radhika, Ramones, Gwenno (superb), Sstr Irene O'Connor, John Holt, Nat Birchall, D'Angelo
Drew people hulling strawberries, Borough Market
Aww, D'Angelo on @gidcoe.bsky.social
What a brilliant man, a brilliant sound
Cruisin', such a lovely record.
Lump in throat
Annoyed?
Try this!
Wednesday evening, 7 p.m. London
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If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly βhumorousββ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk
12.10.2025 15:56 β π 161 π 374 π¬ 3 π 13New music video coming soon!
11.10.2025 18:20 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An apostrophelipse!
11.10.2025 13:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social
Humdinger of a show: Stereolab, Studio Elecrophonique, Sister Irene O'Connor (thought it was Space Lady being holy!), The O'Jays, The Cramps (yipee!), lots more including Singer and Players and more
Drew cheery men with shovels
Someone wrote on the other flying social media platform that you can buy it for Β£6 on Discogs! My value is not as high as I thought it was!
07.10.2025 19:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That'll be 15 quid to you, pal.
07.10.2025 13:35 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0A song in an hour
Wednesday evening, near Liverpool street Station, London
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@edwyncollins.bsky.social at the Royal Festival Hall
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Photo by Robert Rotifer
I've made some reductions on Bandcamp today, some just for the weekend (Pop-Up Chefs EP and Drawing on My Dreams), and some permanent (Voxpop Puella and Green CDs, Poetry and Rhyme and Take One Digital)
Take a look, have a listen, etc etc!
helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com
This weekend only! Drawing on my Dreams CD only Β£7.00
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This weekend only! For #BandcampFriday
The Pop-Up Chefs EP only Β£7.00
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Twiddly diddly synthpop CD from ages ago, now only a fiver!
helenmccookerybook.bandcamp.com/album/voxpop...
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social
What a lovely session by Emma Pollock! Such strong and self-assured music. And that cello! Just right for tonight's mood
Also Truthpaste, Fanfarlo, Beak, Gloin, Thee Headcoatees, Blue Bendy
Drew a sax player in the High Street
It's worth getting tickets early for this, cos our last one sold out!
Something to look forward to in January
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Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social
Cardiacs, Gloin, Cate Le Bon, Ween (loved it), Jeff Buckley, The Bug Club, Long Fling (really fabulous, plz don't split up!)
Tired tonight, been to gigs inc. Sassyhiya & The Cords & my own last week, Essential Logic & Gina Birch
Drew tilers, Camden High Street
Next gig is in Brighton!
wegottickets.com/event/673409