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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    11 Track CD

    “Helen McCookerybook has an excellent new record …”
    Gideon Coe, BBC Radio 6 Music, 22/09/22

    Includes 3 Bonus Tracks as digital downloads

    Comes in a gatefold all cardboard case - Ecopak

    Front cover drawing by Helen McCallum (aged 5)
    Back cover still from "Femme Fatale" (2021) by Naimad
    Inside cover photograph & label drawing by Helen McCookerybook

    Little Egret is dedicated to James McCallum
    Thanks to: Ian, Jane North, Damian, Ruth

    Big Song Records, HMcC06

    Signed on request

    Available at gigs

    Includes unlimited streaming of Drawing on my Dreams via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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In Bangladesh in the land of rain
Ashes settle on the workers' pain
From the burning furnace of the factory fire
Comes the heart of your desire
In children's compounds lined with beds
smartphone dreams ping inside their heads
In China where the infants play
Is assembling phones to dial their lives away

In the deep dark depths of the fulfilment centres
The towers of boxes tell
Of a hidden world of cruel force
and working lives in hell

The bee-like buzzing of the sewing machines
Stitches viral meatworld memes
In western cities the fast-forward fashion
Is cunningly concealed from our compassion
In a million streets in a thousand places
We compete in status races
Liveried vans with guilty parcels
Ferry endless stuff to the rich and powerful

In the deep dark depths of the fulfilment centres
The towers of boxes tell
Of a hidden world of cruel force
and working lives in hell

Amazonia, Amazonia, Amazonia

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from Drawing on my Dreams, released October 7, 2022

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Helen McCookerybook UK

Helen McCookerybook is an outstanding songwriter who's beginnings formed in the punk era, old associates The Monochrome Set/The Pirhanas her first band was The Chefs (John Peel fave) She later signed to RCA with her band The Horns and had a couple of minor hits
Helen took 20 years out to become a Mum and PHD, taking up her songwriting again in 2003. Suburban Pastoral was her 1st solo record.
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