This January Spectacular will be featuring songs from Helen McCookerybook‘s latest album, Showtunes from the Shadows (Tiny Global Records) with GUEST artists* Gina Birch, Lester Square, Terry Edwards, Jack Hayter, Robert Rotifer, Karina Townsend, Ruth Tidmarsh accompanying on the tracks they played on and more.

Also, as part of the Spectacular, each guest artist will play 2 songs of their own prior to the main performance with Helen McCookerybook.

Be there at 8 pm to catch the whole show!

More info and tickets: wegottickets.com/f/14034/

Thursday 15th January 2026 at 8 pm (doors 7:30 pm)

The Waiting Room, under The Three Crowns, 175 Stoke Newington High St., London N16 0PE

*Solo, Hangovers, The Raincoats, The Monochrome Set, Gallon Drunk, The Higsons, Hefner, Rotifer, Louis Philippe and the Night Mail, Ruby Throat, The Mike Flowers Pops, Alternative TV

Promo video: youtube.com/watch?v=IYMuOwhKqmI

Helen McCookerybook will be taking part in the:

PUNK: The Last Word (or is it?) panel debate on Saturday, with Chris Sullivan & Stephen Colgrave + Russ Bestley & Mike Dines (Punk Scholars Network) Marco Pirroni & Ryan Walker.

Saturday 16th, 6:15-7:30 pm – more info

Helen will also be playing three 15 minute LIVE sets before these events:

Justin Currie, Saturday 16th – more info – live set at 3:45 pm
Richard Jobson, Sunday 17th – more info – live set at 11:45 am
Ed Tudor Pole, Sunday 17th – more info – live set at 3:45 pm

Taken from her latest album, Showtunes from the Shadows, released earlier this year on Tiny Global Productions.

You can listen to (and buy) on Tiny Global artist’s Bandcamp here:
helenmcc.bandcamp.com/album/showtunes-from-the-shadows

Also available at selected record stores.

The Pop-Up Chefs * release their new limited edition EP of four The Chefs songs – arranged by themselves for two guitars and vocals – on Gare du Nord Records on the 6th June 2025. This follows up the digital release of the EP on the 9th May, which is available on the usual platforms.

The 4 Tracks:

1. 24 Hours
2. Food
3. Records and Tea
4. Let’s Make Up

The Vinyl EP is a Limited Edition of 100 and will only be available via Bandcamp here:

thepop-upchefs.bandcamp.com

* The Pop-Up Chefs are Helen McCookerybook & James McCallum who are siblings and original members of The Chefs. The Chefs were John Peel favourites and recorded two BBC Radio 1 Sessions for him back in the early 1980s.

The Chefs on Wikipedia and Damaged Goods Records