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Helmlet

The name Helmlet is given to my by two frieds making fun of me when I was writing my first song. Looking back on it they quite right to make fun of me. I now use this name to remind me not to take things to seriously in all creative things I do.

Singer Songwrtiter

I started writing songs as a bass guitar player in my first band Miscellaneous back in 1996. In 2004 I started playing and recording some of the songs I had written. I felt earlier that some of my songs were just to much me, but it had taken me many years to learn how to sing and play guitar. The songs I write always show a strong link between lyrics and music. It are more or less adventures and thoughts put to music, short stories that visualise images while listening. Stories about love, politics, visions on life in this strange ugly beautifull thing called human society. Like the story about the man that misses his train, starts playing his guitar and receives some change from a vagebond. Another story about a little fish that ends up infertile by undersee nuclear tests. Recently I started writing my songs both in English and Dutch. Writing in english offers me a distance to achieve completing the lyrics, translation to Dutch confronts with the full emotion en shows the essence of the lyric.

Bands

My first instrument is bassguitar. I have played bassguitar in Miscellaneous, Scrambled, Stereotype and E*line. I have tried to play cello a bit in Cortege du sage and right now I am drummer in a rockband called Bojev. You can watch Bojev and Cortege du sage at http://www.youtube.com

DJ

I have been a DJ for more than 12 years now. There were times I played music weekly at Nederland 3, alternative 90's mainly then. Since I like many more styles of music I like it best to glue these styles together. Styles I use are alternative festival music, genuine 50's rock and roll, surf, funk, hardcore, punk, chemical beats, soul, drum n base, lounge, jazz, Balkan folk, trip hop, reggae, hip hop, dance classic's and salsa. These days I play mainly in pub's and at parties.

Art

As in my songs the inspiration for my art projects comes from nature, society, love and other emotions I experience. I give away paintings or just drop them somewhere in the city. Sometimes I make constructions like a television that I have turned into a puppetshow or a windmill promoting people to think about our energy supply. This object you can see on the web at www.watstaatdaarinhetpark.nl.

Poetry

Sometimes I try to put the essence of my thoughts in a song but it ends up being something more a bit like poetry. Some of it you can read as a blog entry.

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