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Helen Arney

Helen Arney is a musical comedian based in London. She performs unusually funny, slightly skewy songs and stand-up on ukulele and a bar stool.

"Charming, witty and warm, with great one-liners" (**** The List)
"Engaging, twinkly-eyed stage presence" (Chortle)
"Elfin, charming and captivating... intelligently funny..." (BBC Club)
"Irreverent and heartfelt" (British Theatre Guide)
"Rising star of 2010" (spoonfed.co.uk)
"Geeky" (Time Out)

Her 2010 Edinburgh Fringe show Helen Arney’s Songs for Modern Loving is an hour of comic songs, ukuleles and stand-up to take you through the highs, lows and heartaches of looking for that perfect someone.

August 2009 saw Helen perform her first solo Edinburgh Fringe show, on the Five Pound Fringe. It was a 45-minute extravaganza of piano, ukulele, miniature accordion and stand-up called 8+1/2 songs about love (and other myths). At the 2008 Fringe, Helen was one quarter of Homework for Heroes, a stand-up show celebrating tiny acts of heroism, with Nat Luurtsema, Broderick Chow and Tom Goodliffe. The same year, Helen reached the semi-finals of Funny Women and So You Think You're Funny, was selected as an Amused Moose Hot Starlet, and bought her first ukulele.

Helen hosts a twice-monthly boutique comedy night called The London Air-Accordion Society in central London, with brilliant headliners and the best new acts on the circuit. She also comperes other stand-up comedy nights and album launches for the likes of retro-Victorian alt-folkers Sunday Driver and turntable soul combo Belleruche.

Recent projects include performing live via Skype at a gig in Galway, singing one of her songs accompanied by a miniature orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of Pestival and featuring in the Geek Pop Festival, both live and online. Later in 2010 Helen will appear at Latitude and End Of The Road music festivals, Machynlleth and Cambridge comedy festivals and - with Robin Ince - Cheltenham Science Festival.

Helen’s current projects include writing a new show for kids called "Songs about Science", a Victorian-themed cabaret night, and arranging popular hits of the ‘80s for a cappella choir.