Helen Arney – Page 23 – Comedian. Writer. Presenter. Geek Songstress

Animals – hip hop remix released today!

Today, the apotheosis of ukulele-based comedy hip hop has been reached, and you can own it right now as a download. I present to you… Animals!

It’s released today as the first track in a mini-album called Geek Like Me. You can download the whole thing from Bandcamp, iTunes and Amazon, and it also marks the start of the 2011 Geek Pop Festival.

All the links and lyrics you need are here.

I think is sounds pretty amazing thanks to Mr Simmonds & Professor Elemental, but I’ll let you listen and decide for yourselves… Bye for now.… Read the rest

February News in a handy email format

in Uncategorized on 02/08/11

Hello again,

I’ve just send out one of my enormo-emails, with details of all the bits on pieces I’m up to in February. Man, it’s an excessive number of things. I’m looking forward to March when there is just a reasonable number of things (Geek Pop EP launch, Cambridge Science Festival, FOTSN & Balconettes, James Sherwood’s Piano Bar… oh hang on that’s a lot of things too…)

LOOK the point is that there’s some ace things happening in February and it’s all here in glorious technipurplecolour. It’s not all live shows, there are things online like videos of my comedy girlband The Balconettes!

If you want to get these sorts of things in your inbox before anyone else, you can … Read the rest

Baby Be Good To Me

in Uncategorized on 02/03/11

Should have posted something about this last week but it’s been a bit busy… I spent a happy happy day last week with my sister Kat Arney, her fiance Ricky Fabulous of turntable soul-funk band Belleruche, illustrator Tom Humberstone and the awesome Darren Hayman of ex-Hefner and of currently-Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern.

Darren has been writing and recording a song every day of January, as well as making a video for each song and a video diary to go with every track. Quite aside from recording one of the songs (day 22, number-fans) I’ve been following the whole thing on twitter and tumblr and it’s been a rollercoaster of creativity.

Here’s the video I helped make … Read the rest