{"id":152,"date":"2019-03-19T23:53:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjkmusic.co.uk\/v2sandbox\/?p=152"},"modified":"2019-03-19T23:53:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:53:49","slug":"helen-held-the-girl-no-man-can-hold-2004-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/helen-held-the-girl-no-man-can-hold-2004-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Held, The Girl No Man Can Hold (2004-2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Singing drag magician and escape artist.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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As part of our 2004 illusion act Devilish Deeds we created a number of different characters to perform as, but the one that ended up sticking was a drag escape artist by the name of Helen Held (The Girl No Man Can Hold).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen was originally an anarchic punk rock character, with rock guitar soundtrack and a masked leather clad assistant named Helle Augen.  After a while though I developed the character into a Bunty-esque retro heroine inspired by Pearl White, mixing escapes and illusions with old vaudeville and music hall songs and eccentric stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helen was great fun to play and write for and went much further as an act than I ever expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are three vintage comic songs recorded as Helen, along with YouTube footage of a straightjacket routine entitled “The Ballad Of Mary Jones”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n[soundcloud url=”https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/136638013″ params=”color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” \/]\n\n\n\n\n[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gIM5OZfOWgA&w=560&h=315]\n\n\n\n

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Singing drag magician and escape artist. As part of our 2004 illusion act Devilish Deeds we created a number of different characters to perform as, but the one that ended up sticking was a drag escape artist by the name of Helen Held (The Girl No Man Can Hold). Helen was originally an anarchic punk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}