Drew McConnell’s Helsinki perform EXCLUSIVE live session for Gigslutz

Helsinki is the side project of Drew McConnell, bass player in Babyshambles and musician to the stars. Drew & the band recorded a live session exclusively for Gigslutz at The Hawley Arms, Camden and played two tracks.

‘Rising Heights’ and ‘Keys’ are both taken from the bands forthcoming album A Guide For The Perplexed, which is available to pre order on iTunes here.

A Guide For The Perplexed was recorded live over two days and talking about the record, Drew said, “I guess you could say it was produced by me. But really I just played the guys the chords a couple of times on the acoustic guitar and told them loosely how I’d imagined it to sound arrangement-wise. I know all these guys so well and have played with them all so much that we have a kind of shorthand with each other musically. It didn’t even strike me as an odd way to do it until I’d spoken to people about it afterwards. It does give the recordings a certain freshness though, as for everyone in the room the songs were literally brand new. The parts you’re hearing are being imagined, executed and recorded all at once.”

To stay up to date with all the latest from Helsinki including tour dates, news and more, make sure you follow Drew on Twitter and check out the band’s site here..

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Matt Tarr

Matt Tarr

Urban Music Editor
With grime and hip hop being major influences on him growing up in South East London, Matt's passion is urban music but over the years he has gathered a hugely diverse taste, ranging from Wiley to The Smiths by way of Machine Head, that has made him a very open minded individual.
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