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Helvissa

Cheap perfume in her basement room

About Me

helvissa started life in 2004 as an duo of girlfriend and boyfriend.

a 7 track album, Laundrette Love Songs, and 4-track EP was 'released' by us in 2004.

in 2005 our album, Cheap Eyeliner, was available from Lost Music
find out more at our website, where you can also listen/download tracks off our second album.

in early 2006 we went underground to a secret bunker to garner the wherewithall and equipment to play our sound live, and to write some new material... watch this space for future develpoments

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/3/2005
Band Members: Helen: voice, guitar and lyrics

G: guitar/hammond organ/music
Influences: sSlicon Teens, The Smiths, boz boorer, Suede, Francoise Hardy, rockabilly, weekend, Jacques Brel, the polecats, the stray cats, the swinging cats, carl perkins, vince taylor.
tragic films on a videophone..... width="425" height="350" ..
Sounds Like: Ice cream melting between your fingers on a warm day
Rain falling on the roof of a plastic bus-shelter on a cold morning
Cars driving past your bedroom window at night
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Work in progress

We're hoping for a 'city' feel for this album - not that it's such a great departure from what we've done before. However, one of the songs will be called "Topography of the Heart", named after a modu...
Posted by Helvissa on Sun, 07 May 2006 05:08:00 PST

HELVISSA 3

there you go... a title for our new album we are working on the songs even as i typethey will be better than ever - and we are working towards playing these ones live - as opposed to earlier stuff whi...
Posted by Helvissa on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 12:56:00 PST

Album out now!

Cheap Eyeliner our second album is available from www.lostmusic.co.ukin the process of recording it, our computer crashed and then blew-up, and G went deaf from wearing headphones 24/7 ...
Posted by Helvissa on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 04:39:00 PST

be creative with your life - or else!

...news just in!  we finally dragged ourselves out of the coffee-shops of the city just long enough to complete another album track - only one more vocal track to lay down (complicated one here: ...
Posted by Helvissa on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:42:00 PST

Posing, websites and cafes

Some potentially interesting news, of sorts.... Our friend Snowee is putting together a website for us. It's not finished just yet, but what we've done is... we've got www.helvissa.com! How fab is tha...
Posted by Helvissa on Wed, 07 Sep 2005 03:04:00 PST

here come the warm jets

...latest news on our forthcoming and much-delayed recording of our SECOND album (how pretentious!): five songs down, three of them awaiting the vocal talents of H. and possibly one more short song to...
Posted by Helvissa on Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:46:00 PST

Superstars (from G - a helvafellow)

...the shoes that i bought today in oxfam, black with white stripes.thrift-shopping is a way of life.i also bought the book "not abba" by dave haslam, which i shall be reading after i finish "zap gun"...
Posted by Helvissa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

City of Pornography

Hmmm.... We've had our three new tracks here for a couple of weeks. . The vocals for 'City of Pornography' were easier to do than 'Eyeliner'. Again, because I'd actually practiced, we got the vocals d...
Posted by Helvissa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Cheap Eyeliner Makes Her Cry

The music is now finished for "Cheap Eyeliner Makes Her Cry", but now we've got to do the vocals. To prevent any diva tantrums, I'm actually practicing the song over and over and over and over again. ...
Posted by Helvissa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST