Alcopop! Records have signed Welsh outfit Helen Love. Having already secured twenty one singles, three EPs and seven albums, Love and co. have now unveiled their Christmas single, ‘The Townhall Band’, joined by members of The School, The Darling Buds, The Sweet Nothings, with Charlie Darling and Ash’s Tim Wheeler. All proceeds from the Christmas single will be donated to The Trussell Trust.
“I’ve been a MASSIVE fan of Helen Love ever since I heard the ‘Tommy Gun Clash’ cover on Steve Lamacq’s Bootleg Sessions Volume 2 back in 1999,” says Alcopop!’s Jack Clothier of the outfit who formed seven years prior. “My friend Dave sent me the ‘Does Your Heart Go Boom’ single and I was absolutely smitten.”
“On the quest of becoming best pals with Helen and the gang I (genuinely) enrolled at Swansea University where they played exactly no hometown shows and I met them approximately never. Fast forward 10 years or so, and en route to the first HL show in London for many years, I bumped into Helen in a mid-priced chain pub and finally met the queen of the UK music scene. Now we’re working together on her new album, and to put it frankly – I couldn’t be happier about it. This is Helen Love on absolutely sparkling form… From Swansea Bay to the USA!”
More on Helen Love to come in the very near future.