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Punk Beginnings

In 1976 Helen McCallum moved from Wylam near Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Brighton to study Fine Art Printmaking at the Polytechnic. In 1977 she began to play bass in the punk band, Joby and the Hooligans. The following year, Carl Evans, a 17-year old guitarist from Haywards Heath, joined the band, who changed their name to the Smartees. In the Smartees, Helen wrote and sang ‘Thrush’, a song about the sexually transmitted disease (‘Darling you diseased me, I thought you did not care/ You never tried to please me when I was lying there’) and co-wrote ‘Let’s Make Up’, about cosmetics (‘You line your lips with darker shade/ Blot with tissue then you’re made’)

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