Helen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington)
@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
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
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social
Television (full version of MM), Swell Maps, McLusky, Nancy Sinatra, Paul Haig, White Denim, The Membranes, Second World War, Yeah Yeah Noh, Land Surveyor, David Bowie
Drew Robert Wyatt playing trumpet
Television (full version of MM), Swell Maps, McLusky, Nancy Sinatra, Paul Haig, White Denim, The Membranes, Second World War, Yeah Yeah Noh, Land Surveyor, David Bowie
Drew Robert Wyatt playing trumpet
February 9, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social
Television (full version of MM), Swell Maps, McLusky, Nancy Sinatra, Paul Haig, White Denim, The Membranes, Second World War, Yeah Yeah Noh, Land Surveyor, David Bowie
Drew Robert Wyatt playing trumpet
Television (full version of MM), Swell Maps, McLusky, Nancy Sinatra, Paul Haig, White Denim, The Membranes, Second World War, Yeah Yeah Noh, Land Surveyor, David Bowie
Drew Robert Wyatt playing trumpet
I'm playing in Hythe, Kent, tomorrow as part of the #folkestonesongwritingfestival
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/event/686497
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/event/686497
February 5, 2026 at 11:01 AM
I'm playing in Hythe, Kent, tomorrow as part of the #folkestonesongwritingfestival
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/event/686497
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/event/686497
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social
Radhika, Ex-Easter Island Head, Musical Youth, Swell Maps, The Delines, The Flying Hats, more Twinsets, LOVED Tony Joe White, Pigbros, Clever Bunny, Brightblack Morning Light
Drew Bob Dylan, musicians famous and not, for exhibition/gig in Valencia in April
Radhika, Ex-Easter Island Head, Musical Youth, Swell Maps, The Delines, The Flying Hats, more Twinsets, LOVED Tony Joe White, Pigbros, Clever Bunny, Brightblack Morning Light
Drew Bob Dylan, musicians famous and not, for exhibition/gig in Valencia in April
February 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social
Radhika, Ex-Easter Island Head, Musical Youth, Swell Maps, The Delines, The Flying Hats, more Twinsets, LOVED Tony Joe White, Pigbros, Clever Bunny, Brightblack Morning Light
Drew Bob Dylan, musicians famous and not, for exhibition/gig in Valencia in April
Radhika, Ex-Easter Island Head, Musical Youth, Swell Maps, The Delines, The Flying Hats, more Twinsets, LOVED Tony Joe White, Pigbros, Clever Bunny, Brightblack Morning Light
Drew Bob Dylan, musicians famous and not, for exhibition/gig in Valencia in April
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social
Funny- just been writing about Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers. The Funks, Guy Hamper 3O, Weave Stonder, Kiki Dee, Gnac, Leslie Butler, The Twinsets, Hey Colossus, Spencer Cullum, Pentangle, more
Drew woman unloading a lorry
Funny- just been writing about Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers. The Funks, Guy Hamper 3O, Weave Stonder, Kiki Dee, Gnac, Leslie Butler, The Twinsets, Hey Colossus, Spencer Cullum, Pentangle, more
Drew woman unloading a lorry
February 2, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social
Funny- just been writing about Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers. The Funks, Guy Hamper 3O, Weave Stonder, Kiki Dee, Gnac, Leslie Butler, The Twinsets, Hey Colossus, Spencer Cullum, Pentangle, more
Drew woman unloading a lorry
Funny- just been writing about Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers. The Funks, Guy Hamper 3O, Weave Stonder, Kiki Dee, Gnac, Leslie Butler, The Twinsets, Hey Colossus, Spencer Cullum, Pentangle, more
Drew woman unloading a lorry
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social
Tenuous links assortment: The Colour Field, Emma Tricca and Bridget St John, T Rex, Dele Sosimi, Lambchop, Jill Scott, Arlo Parks, Slaughter and the Dogs, Jazz Butcher
Drew woman in green bouclé coat with dachshund at the tube barrier
Tenuous links assortment: The Colour Field, Emma Tricca and Bridget St John, T Rex, Dele Sosimi, Lambchop, Jill Scott, Arlo Parks, Slaughter and the Dogs, Jazz Butcher
Drew woman in green bouclé coat with dachshund at the tube barrier
January 28, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social
Tenuous links assortment: The Colour Field, Emma Tricca and Bridget St John, T Rex, Dele Sosimi, Lambchop, Jill Scott, Arlo Parks, Slaughter and the Dogs, Jazz Butcher
Drew woman in green bouclé coat with dachshund at the tube barrier
Tenuous links assortment: The Colour Field, Emma Tricca and Bridget St John, T Rex, Dele Sosimi, Lambchop, Jill Scott, Arlo Parks, Slaughter and the Dogs, Jazz Butcher
Drew woman in green bouclé coat with dachshund at the tube barrier
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social many miles between them, sounding in the same room
Tracks from Ty Segall, Hanna Hu, The Bevis Frond, The Vibes, The London Bones, Air, Forever Pavot and Lispector (fave track of night), Amy to come I think
Drew a man with piccolo trumpet
Tracks from Ty Segall, Hanna Hu, The Bevis Frond, The Vibes, The London Bones, Air, Forever Pavot and Lispector (fave track of night), Amy to come I think
Drew a man with piccolo trumpet
January 27, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social many miles between them, sounding in the same room
Tracks from Ty Segall, Hanna Hu, The Bevis Frond, The Vibes, The London Bones, Air, Forever Pavot and Lispector (fave track of night), Amy to come I think
Drew a man with piccolo trumpet
Tracks from Ty Segall, Hanna Hu, The Bevis Frond, The Vibes, The London Bones, Air, Forever Pavot and Lispector (fave track of night), Amy to come I think
Drew a man with piccolo trumpet
Cailin Morun Sa clip from last night's gig at The Country Soul Sessions.
Full electronic version of the track here: williegibson.bandcamp.com/album/cailin...
@willieg.bsky.social
Full electronic version of the track here: williegibson.bandcamp.com/album/cailin...
@willieg.bsky.social
January 26, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Cailin Morun Sa clip from last night's gig at The Country Soul Sessions.
Full electronic version of the track here: williegibson.bandcamp.com/album/cailin...
@willieg.bsky.social
Full electronic version of the track here: williegibson.bandcamp.com/album/cailin...
@willieg.bsky.social
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social & @gidcoe.bsky.social
Have not been on t-shirt tonight, but thanks for trying, Bones!
Lande Hekt, Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18, brilliant track by Viv Albertine, Race Horses, Juniore & Al Baabi, The Loft, Tiny Ruins, Edgar Broughton Band
Drew piper and son, Rothesay
Have not been on t-shirt tonight, but thanks for trying, Bones!
Lande Hekt, Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18, brilliant track by Viv Albertine, Race Horses, Juniore & Al Baabi, The Loft, Tiny Ruins, Edgar Broughton Band
Drew piper and son, Rothesay
January 21, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social & @gidcoe.bsky.social
Have not been on t-shirt tonight, but thanks for trying, Bones!
Lande Hekt, Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18, brilliant track by Viv Albertine, Race Horses, Juniore & Al Baabi, The Loft, Tiny Ruins, Edgar Broughton Band
Drew piper and son, Rothesay
Have not been on t-shirt tonight, but thanks for trying, Bones!
Lande Hekt, Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18, brilliant track by Viv Albertine, Race Horses, Juniore & Al Baabi, The Loft, Tiny Ruins, Edgar Broughton Band
Drew piper and son, Rothesay
Never celebrated Burns Night before? It's never too late to start! Loads of music and poetry from bands who really know how to make an evening convivial!
I'm learning my Burns song right now, and will also sing 'Cailin Morun Sa' A Capella
Tickets here:
wegottickets.com/event/685637/
I'm learning my Burns song right now, and will also sing 'Cailin Morun Sa' A Capella
Tickets here:
wegottickets.com/event/685637/
January 21, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Never celebrated Burns Night before? It's never too late to start! Loads of music and poetry from bands who really know how to make an evening convivial!
I'm learning my Burns song right now, and will also sing 'Cailin Morun Sa' A Capella
Tickets here:
wegottickets.com/event/685637/
I'm learning my Burns song right now, and will also sing 'Cailin Morun Sa' A Capella
Tickets here:
wegottickets.com/event/685637/
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social & @gidcoe.bsky.social
I want to marry the track Lucie by Clémentine March.
Can u marry music?
Race Horses, Butthole Surfers, Department of Eagles, The Wave Pictures (love em too), London Bones, Buzzcocks, Belle and Sebastian
Drew BBC3 Orchestra, end of concert
I want to marry the track Lucie by Clémentine March.
Can u marry music?
Race Horses, Butthole Surfers, Department of Eagles, The Wave Pictures (love em too), London Bones, Buzzcocks, Belle and Sebastian
Drew BBC3 Orchestra, end of concert
January 20, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social & @gidcoe.bsky.social
I want to marry the track Lucie by Clémentine March.
Can u marry music?
Race Horses, Butthole Surfers, Department of Eagles, The Wave Pictures (love em too), London Bones, Buzzcocks, Belle and Sebastian
Drew BBC3 Orchestra, end of concert
I want to marry the track Lucie by Clémentine March.
Can u marry music?
Race Horses, Butthole Surfers, Department of Eagles, The Wave Pictures (love em too), London Bones, Buzzcocks, Belle and Sebastian
Drew BBC3 Orchestra, end of concert
I think this is the first time I've ever f*cking won anything!
I can't wait to visit the exhibition by the Profane Embroidery Group in Whitstable in February
I am going to revive the profane song 'Thrush' and play it at The Folkestone Songwriting Festival on Friday 6th February in celebration.
I can't wait to visit the exhibition by the Profane Embroidery Group in Whitstable in February
I am going to revive the profane song 'Thrush' and play it at The Folkestone Songwriting Festival on Friday 6th February in celebration.
January 19, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I think this is the first time I've ever f*cking won anything!
I can't wait to visit the exhibition by the Profane Embroidery Group in Whitstable in February
I am going to revive the profane song 'Thrush' and play it at The Folkestone Songwriting Festival on Friday 6th February in celebration.
I can't wait to visit the exhibition by the Profane Embroidery Group in Whitstable in February
I am going to revive the profane song 'Thrush' and play it at The Folkestone Songwriting Festival on Friday 6th February in celebration.
Snippet of 'It Wasn't Me' from Thursday night at The Waiting Room, with Lester Square on guitar and Ruth Tidmarsh on bass.
@bizarropromo.bsky.social
@waitingroomn16.bsky.social
@bizarropromo.bsky.social
@waitingroomn16.bsky.social
January 17, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Snippet of 'It Wasn't Me' from Thursday night at The Waiting Room, with Lester Square on guitar and Ruth Tidmarsh on bass.
@bizarropromo.bsky.social
@waitingroomn16.bsky.social
@bizarropromo.bsky.social
@waitingroomn16.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social
Metronomy, Das Wanderlust, Hey Colossus, Lyr, Courtney Barnett, London Bones, Land Surveyor in session
Drew a guitarist with pedals.
Know who it is?
Metronomy, Das Wanderlust, Hey Colossus, Lyr, Courtney Barnett, London Bones, Land Surveyor in session
Drew a guitarist with pedals.
Know who it is?
January 14, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social
Metronomy, Das Wanderlust, Hey Colossus, Lyr, Courtney Barnett, London Bones, Land Surveyor in session
Drew a guitarist with pedals.
Know who it is?
Metronomy, Das Wanderlust, Hey Colossus, Lyr, Courtney Barnett, London Bones, Land Surveyor in session
Drew a guitarist with pedals.
Know who it is?
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social
Hen Ogled, Courtney Barnett, Grateful Dead,
Fire Engines coming up (yee-ha!), London Bones, Radikha, Hen Hoose Collective, Massive Attack, Hey Colossus
Drew a man climbing into a crate of watermelons
Hen Ogled, Courtney Barnett, Grateful Dead,
Fire Engines coming up (yee-ha!), London Bones, Radikha, Hen Hoose Collective, Massive Attack, Hey Colossus
Drew a man climbing into a crate of watermelons
January 12, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social
Hen Ogled, Courtney Barnett, Grateful Dead,
Fire Engines coming up (yee-ha!), London Bones, Radikha, Hen Hoose Collective, Massive Attack, Hey Colossus
Drew a man climbing into a crate of watermelons
Hen Ogled, Courtney Barnett, Grateful Dead,
Fire Engines coming up (yee-ha!), London Bones, Radikha, Hen Hoose Collective, Massive Attack, Hey Colossus
Drew a man climbing into a crate of watermelons
Happening this Thursday!
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/14034
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/14034
January 12, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Happening this Thursday!
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/14034
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/14034
Coming up on Thursday:
Stoke Newington Waiting Room, a plethora of joyful acts!
Bring your friends, shine like a star!
#stokenewington
wegottickets.com/f/14034
Stoke Newington Waiting Room, a plethora of joyful acts!
Bring your friends, shine like a star!
#stokenewington
wegottickets.com/f/14034
January 10, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Coming up on Thursday:
Stoke Newington Waiting Room, a plethora of joyful acts!
Bring your friends, shine like a star!
#stokenewington
wegottickets.com/f/14034
Stoke Newington Waiting Room, a plethora of joyful acts!
Bring your friends, shine like a star!
#stokenewington
wegottickets.com/f/14034
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social on catch-up
Superb music including Bobby Blue Bland, Heavenly, Gallon Drunk, Katherine Priddy, The Bluebells and The Monochrome Set (segue!), The Cold Collar, Slade, Jetstream Pony, Steve Noonan, Felt, Garrick's Fairground (Michael Garrick? )
Drew Streetscape Artist
Superb music including Bobby Blue Bland, Heavenly, Gallon Drunk, Katherine Priddy, The Bluebells and The Monochrome Set (segue!), The Cold Collar, Slade, Jetstream Pony, Steve Noonan, Felt, Garrick's Fairground (Michael Garrick? )
Drew Streetscape Artist
January 7, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Listening to @gidcoe.bsky.social on catch-up
Superb music including Bobby Blue Bland, Heavenly, Gallon Drunk, Katherine Priddy, The Bluebells and The Monochrome Set (segue!), The Cold Collar, Slade, Jetstream Pony, Steve Noonan, Felt, Garrick's Fairground (Michael Garrick? )
Drew Streetscape Artist
Superb music including Bobby Blue Bland, Heavenly, Gallon Drunk, Katherine Priddy, The Bluebells and The Monochrome Set (segue!), The Cold Collar, Slade, Jetstream Pony, Steve Noonan, Felt, Garrick's Fairground (Michael Garrick? )
Drew Streetscape Artist
Next week! Our January spectacular in Stoke Newington!
Starts bang on 8, ends 10.30
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/14034
Starts bang on 8, ends 10.30
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/14034
January 5, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Next week! Our January spectacular in Stoke Newington!
Starts bang on 8, ends 10.30
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/14034
Starts bang on 8, ends 10.30
Tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/14034
Happy New Year!
January 1, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Happy New Year!
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social on catch up
Richard Dawkins, Edwyn Collins, Ezra Furman, Trupa Trupa, Annie Dressner, The Ocees, Cheap Feel, Billy Childish
Strange drawing in the daytime!
Men dressed as traffic cones on the train to the darts in Alexandra Palace yesterday
Richard Dawkins, Edwyn Collins, Ezra Furman, Trupa Trupa, Annie Dressner, The Ocees, Cheap Feel, Billy Childish
Strange drawing in the daytime!
Men dressed as traffic cones on the train to the darts in Alexandra Palace yesterday
December 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social on catch up
Richard Dawkins, Edwyn Collins, Ezra Furman, Trupa Trupa, Annie Dressner, The Ocees, Cheap Feel, Billy Childish
Strange drawing in the daytime!
Men dressed as traffic cones on the train to the darts in Alexandra Palace yesterday
Richard Dawkins, Edwyn Collins, Ezra Furman, Trupa Trupa, Annie Dressner, The Ocees, Cheap Feel, Billy Childish
Strange drawing in the daytime!
Men dressed as traffic cones on the train to the darts in Alexandra Palace yesterday
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social rounding up the year. Anna B Savage, House of All, Field Music, The Nightingales, Richard Dawson, Du Blonde, The Moonlandingz and more
Drew a woman lifting weights in Trafalgar Square last summer at the Jeremy Deller event
Drew a woman lifting weights in Trafalgar Square last summer at the Jeremy Deller event
December 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Listening to @marcrileydj.bsky.social rounding up the year. Anna B Savage, House of All, Field Music, The Nightingales, Richard Dawson, Du Blonde, The Moonlandingz and more
Drew a woman lifting weights in Trafalgar Square last summer at the Jeremy Deller event
Drew a woman lifting weights in Trafalgar Square last summer at the Jeremy Deller event
December 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Thank you so much for playing such great music in 2025 @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social
Been to see so many bands because of you
Thank you for playing my music too
And for being my drawing companions!
Drew Mrs Father Christmas on stilts with present intercepting. child on a scooter
Been to see so many bands because of you
Thank you for playing my music too
And for being my drawing companions!
Drew Mrs Father Christmas on stilts with present intercepting. child on a scooter
December 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Thank you so much for playing such great music in 2025 @marcrileydj.bsky.social and @gidcoe.bsky.social
Been to see so many bands because of you
Thank you for playing my music too
And for being my drawing companions!
Drew Mrs Father Christmas on stilts with present intercepting. child on a scooter
Been to see so many bands because of you
Thank you for playing my music too
And for being my drawing companions!
Drew Mrs Father Christmas on stilts with present intercepting. child on a scooter
Listening to obituaries on @gidcoe.bsky.social
Very sad: Sly Stone, Roy Ayers (who I saw at Brighton's Kingswest when just emerging from punkhood. Brian James, Marianna Faithfull, Roberta Flack; strolled in many a park with her! Louis Moholo, knew him.
Drew watches being laid out. Always ten to two.
Very sad: Sly Stone, Roy Ayers (who I saw at Brighton's Kingswest when just emerging from punkhood. Brian James, Marianna Faithfull, Roberta Flack; strolled in many a park with her! Louis Moholo, knew him.
Drew watches being laid out. Always ten to two.
December 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Listening to obituaries on @gidcoe.bsky.social
Very sad: Sly Stone, Roy Ayers (who I saw at Brighton's Kingswest when just emerging from punkhood. Brian James, Marianna Faithfull, Roberta Flack; strolled in many a park with her! Louis Moholo, knew him.
Drew watches being laid out. Always ten to two.
Very sad: Sly Stone, Roy Ayers (who I saw at Brighton's Kingswest when just emerging from punkhood. Brian James, Marianna Faithfull, Roberta Flack; strolled in many a park with her! Louis Moholo, knew him.
Drew watches being laid out. Always ten to two.