Helena Kitley

Helena Kitley has been around the Newcastle music scene for a good long while, popping up in various musical incarnations over the years. Kitley was writing music from a young age, growing up in Coonabarabran, and set about performing her original music after settling in Newcastle NSW.

As a performer, Kitley has worked as a solo artist, while also featuring in, and in some cases at the helm of, a range of group projects, including most recently “Huntress”, Gleny Rae Virus’s musical brainchild featuring 13 of the Hunter’s best female musicians; and “Glam Slam”, an incredibly-dressed glam rock cover band, fronted by Kitley’s alter ego Kitty Kozmik.

Influenced by artists ranging from Donny Hathaway to Prince to Erykah Badu, Kitley’s sound has an incredibly jazzy and soulful vibe to it, making one feel like leaving the work day behind to sit in a bar full of dark corners with a glass of brandy.

In September 2016 Helena released her debut album The Temporal Lope. Early 2021 will see the release of her second recording “Live at Hazy Cosmic Jive”, an EP recorded and mixed live to 2-track tape by Gareth Hudson, with her band at Hazy Cosmic Jive Studio.