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See Helene play this summer at:The Secret Garden Party near Abbots Ripton Huntingdon Cambridgeshire FRIDAY 27th JULY 2007 4pm. Tickets. ElectroAcoustic Club The Slaughtered Lamb 34-5 Great Sutton Street London EC1V 0DX WEDNESDAY 1st AUGUST 8pm. Admission: £5. Lodestar Festival Lode Cambridge CB25 9EW SUNDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER 8pm. Tickets. Nothing Like a House of God for that Rock and Roll SoundBy JON PARELES, New York Times, 15th March 2007One of South by Southwest's less-publicized secrets is that in Austin, a town that sometimes bills itself as America's live-music capital - under protest from New York and New Orleans - most of the clubs are less than flattering to live music. They have strange setups, like a giant bar in the middle of the dance floor, and dicey acoustics. And with a SxSW crowd chatting away, texting busily and peering at the schedule to decide on the next band, the music has to fight a lot of distractions. But a few acts get lucky, and Helene Dineen, a songwriter from London whose band is called Helene, was one of them. Helene's songs turn everyday life into elegies. They play mostly slow, melancholy tunes from the school of the Velvet Underground and Mazzy Star, with a touch of Beth Orton's ache in her voice. And Helene was booked at one of South by Southwest's newer stages: the Central Presbyterian Church. The stage was barely lighted, and her band's minor-key organ chords and steadily tolling guitar-line chords reverberated in the high-ceilinged space while she sang lyrics like, "When you're tired and tight/These are songs to sing along to." People in the pews actually listened, since flipping open a cellphone would pierce the darkness. Helene couldn't have found a more congenial place for its music. The "Routines" album is released by:Series 8 Records"Routines" download sites:EmusicPlaylouder Read about the first Helene album, "Postcard", at:Helene: PostcardRead more about Helene at:Helene's My Space siteContact Helene at:Helenetheband(at)hotmail.com |