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Helen Mccookerybook Biography
Helen McCookerybook, was born Helen McCallum and is now Dr Helen Reddington. She was the bassist and vocalist with Brighton based punk band, The Chefs during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Helen later formed Helen And The Horns, before continuing her career as a solo artist, writer and lecturer. Her most recent album is ‘Suburban Pastoral’, released through Rough Trade in 2006.
She also published her first book, as Helen Reddington, ‘The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era in July 2007’. The book features interviews with the Slits, Gina Birch, The Mo-dettes, Enid Williams (Girlschool), TheDolly Mixtures, Gaye Black (Adverts), Vi Subversa (Poison Girls), Rhoda Dakar, Lucy O'Brien, Attila the Stockbroker, Caroline Coon, Geoff Travis and the late John Peel.
In 2006 Helen released her second solo album entitled ‘Poetry and Rhyme’, which also featured contributions from Martin Stephenson. In 2009 she recorded a collaborative album with Martin Stephenson entitled ‘Hamilton Square’.