Miss Chatelaine

2 Oct 2018

Helen Mountfort from My Friend the Chocolate Cake – Show #59 (part 2), 13 May 2018

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Katie welcomes Helen Mountfort from beloved Australian band My Friend the Chocolate Cake to the JOY studio to talk about the upcoming Winter Revival Tour. The Cake, who sing songs about finding beauty in the ordinary, have been performing for almost 30 years. Helen and Katie talk about the origins of the band (including where the name came from); their sixth album, The Revival Meeting, which was released in 2017; and the Cake’s connection with Papua New Guinea and PNG artist George Telek. Here is the playlist:

Jeffrey Smart – My Friend the Chocolate Cake
Abebe (Butterfly) – Telek
Stori Rabaul – My Friend the Chocolate Cake
Satellite Boy (Pumpy) – My Friend the Chocolate Cake
Ngura Watjilpa – Frank Yamma
Coming Home – Jarle Skavhellen
Easter Parade – My Friend the Chocolate Cake

Visit My Friend the Chocolate Cake’s official website and follow them on Facebook. Follow David Bridie on Twitter and donate to the Chuffed fund to help George Telek pay for his cancer treatment.

Photo of Katie and Helen Mountfort by Betty Sujecki