Helen Love: My Unofficial Homepages

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"Oh no, it can't be true, everybody's saying Welsh bands are cool
Oh no, that can't be right - apart from Helen Love they're a load of shite"

So sang the Teen Anthems in praise of one of the finest bands in Wales, nay, the world. Of course, Helen Love aren't the only great Welsh band - there's the Manics, Catatonia and and much-missed late-'80s thrashers Tortoise Corpse to name just a few. But Helen Love rank highly and all the world should know their name!

"Baby I love you, you make my heart go boom!"

Helen Love - Does Your Heart Go Boom

So who is Helen Love? Well, she's the singer, does a mean Joey Ramone stance on stage and is the constant fixture of the band. Other band members so far have been:

Super Kay Guitars... Sheena
... and Casiotones Roxy; Mark

Sheena left after she broke her arm in an accident. There was a temporary replacement for the Autumn '97 UK tour and John Peel session, but I'm informed Sheena is on her way back.

"Get your foot on the fuzzbox ready to play, from the Swansea Bay to the USA"

Helen Love - Yeah, Yeah, We're Helen Love

So what do they sound like? Well, let me throw a few song titles at you: Joey Ramoney; Rockaway Beach For Me, Heartbreak Hotel For You; Punk Boy.... get the idea yet? They're undoubtedly Wales' number one Ramones fans - they're even best mates with Joey himself. But they're not spiky punks. Note the lack of a drummer in the above line-up. Helen Love don't need drumkits when they've got their trusty Casio keyboard - imagine the riff to Blitzkrieg Bop played over a bossa-nova beat and you're somewhere in the right area. But most of all, Helen Love are POP!

"Bubblegum, punk pop, disco, don't stop"

Helen Love - We Love You

So now you're wanting to hear their songs. Well you're in luck. After about a year away, they signed to Ché records and in September 1997 released possibly their best single yet, Does Your Heart Go Boom, still available at all decent record shops and probably a few crap ones as well.

Helen and co. previously released 7 singles and an EP on Damaged Goods, also available as two compilation albums, and have contributed to various split singles and compilations, including a tribute to their favourite football team (soccer, to you Yanks), Cardiff City, under the psuedonym of Superlove.

But you can find all this (and more) out on the rest of this site. So what are you waiting for?

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, it's great to be alive"

Helen Love - Riding Hi

Currently, the fun things you can do are:

"Pop boy, pop girl, we love you"

Helen Love - We Love You

Muchas gracias to the one and only Helen, Matthew Kaplan Superstar, Tuck from Wat Tyler, Wayne Putterill and Buzz for encouragement and assistance with the site. If you want to see your name here, write! I need zine aricles, radio session information, corrections and anything else you can provide.

These pages were last updated in early August 1998. However, those are the first changes in 8 months so don't expect the other gaps to be filled too soon. If anyone wants to take over the site (or just steal my HTML and put some new backgrounds on it), please let me know. I still love the band and it'd be a shame after all the time I spent setting it up, but I just haven't got the facilities to do more nowadays.

NEWS FLASH! A new single will be released in August '98 on Ché records. It's a cynical ditty about the conservatism of the UK music scene. It got a slagging on XFM (London radio station) from the editor of the NME was there but only because the band had annoyed him a few weeks previously. According to him they're just manufactured by some pony-tailed producers! Wanker.

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