ACTON'S SUNDAY WITH HELEN

Yesterday evening I had a long chat with the ever lovely Helen McCookerybook, and - as always - what was supposed to be a ten minute conversation about a new limited edition release of hers, became a long and rambling chat during which we talked of cabbages and kings until I realised that we had been talking for over half an hour. During this chat she told me about her friend Acton Bell, with whom she has done a number of gigs and also is organising the very groovy sounding Club Artyfarle which seems like an event after my own heart. So, being a nosy bugger, I typed Acton's name into Youtube, and ladies and gentlemen I am smitten! She has an extraordinary talent which is unlike anyone else I have heard in yonks. I think she is tremendous, and so I warn you that I shall be plugging her relentlessly on these pages until she and Helen (and Liz Lenten) get the Nobel Prize for extreme grooviness. (In 2012 is it allowed to use the word groovy three times in a sentence?) Check her out...