Helen McCookerybook

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Helen McCookeryBook (born Helen McCallum, now Dr Helen Reddington) was the bass guitar player and lead singer with Brighton-based punk rock band The Chefs during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She 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 on Rough Trade Records in November 2006.

Her first book (as Helen Reddington) The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era was published in July 2007. The book features interviews with the Slits, Gina Birch, The Mo-dettes, Enid Williams (Girlschool) the Dollymixture, Gaye Black (Adverts), Vi Subversa (Poison Girls), Rhoda Dakar, Lucy O'Brien, Attila the Stockbroker, Caroline Coon, Geoff Travis and the late John Peel.

[edit] External links

• Official web site
• MySpace page
• Helen McCookerybook discogs page
• The Chefs discogs page
• Helen And The Horns discogs page
• Daily Mirror interview