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 Lewis, Nick Drake and Jake Thackray, her musical journey started as a bass player in a Brighton punk band in the late 1970s. Her previous bands The Chefs and Helen and the Horns were regulars on BBC Radio 1’s John Peel show; nowadays Radio London’s Gary Crowley and BBC6’s Marc Riley and Gideon Coe and play her new music. She has collaborated with Gina Birch, Vic Godard, Lester Square, Robert Rotifer and many more. Her album Showtunes from the Shadows, was released in 2025 on vinyl, CD and download formats on the Tiny Global label: https://helenmcc.bandcamp.com/album/showtunes-from-the-shadows
At this show, she will be playing new songs from her forthcoming album, The Darkside Truth, due to be released on Tiny Global later in 2026.

Robert Rotifer's Radical Friendship Theory
This will be the London live launch of Radical Friendship Theory, a one-off album released on Spinout Nuggets, featuring, amongst others, Robert Rotifer, Helen McCookerybook, Kenji and Ian Button.
Radical Friendship Theory is not a band, it's a set of songs in a wide range of styles, from baroque pop, to psych, from country rock to bookish indie, sung by a circle of friends between Glasgow, Kent, London and southern Spain – a celebration of actual human friendship as a life-saving alternative to a world of fake digital engagement, captive consumption and artificially sown division.