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

Sun song on Infinite Monkey Cage

Just a quick post in case anyone has come here from listening to The Infinite Monkey Cage on Radio 4 this afternoon… it was an absolute blast to be part of that live Cheltenham Science Festival show. I hope people listening at home thought it sounded like fun too (it was!)

In case you missed it, the iPlayer link is here:
20th June, Infinite Monkey Cage

And it’s available as a BBC podcast here. My song “The Sun has got his Huff on” is about 20 minutes in.

If you like my huffy sun song enough to want to own it, well you’re in luck: I’ve just put it up on my Bandcamp site as a free download. You … Read the rest

Free songs for the foreseeable future…

in Uncategorized on 06/07/11

Hello there,

So, I experimented earlier this week with putting three of my science songs up on Bandcamp for free, hoping that people would listen, download, like, share… and maybe also buy the hip-hop version of Animals sitting alongside it for £1 (which would mean I can finally give some proper money to the musical genii Mr Simmonds and Professor Elemental who helped create it)

As an experiment, it’s worked waaaaaaay better than I expected. I should have listened to all of JoCo‘s rants much earlier than this. Massive, massive thanks to everyone who has downloaded and shared the songs so far, especially the new cryogenic love song (YouTube video) and even more thanks to anyone … Read the rest

Helen Arney News for May – out now

in Uncategorized on 05/29/11

Hello again,

I’ve been saving up the things on this latest update for a while, but here it all is:

Helen Arney News for May

Shield your eyes, it’s very yellow. There’s news about lots of shows on sale including 2 new Festival of the Spoken Nerds at our luxurious new bigger venue, and a series of very awesome Edinburgh Fringe previews at the Green Man. Plus cardboard cutout immortality!

Bye for now,

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