About Soul Crime

Soul Crime can be described like nothing ever heard before, - Jazz Opera from the Diva of  damnation. Primal future-ephemeral drums from the elemental Charlatan King of krash, boom and ultra jazz technique. Electric bass axe and noise profound, from the Punk guardian of the gates of Heaven and Hell. Beauty mingles with exquisite chaos in a new inter- cultural and mixed genre synthesis of sound, as surprising as the changed world we find ourselves reflected in. Original lyrics by the tongue lasher - Sapho of soul. 

We live in a world where Soul Crime ravages all that is truth and beauty!

The 0.01% control the world and there are no more rules of engagement with their private armies creeping and scourging. Our lives are gambled and expended while our planet crumbles, as the greedy gorge like Saturn eating his children.

Soul Crime invoke a world-wide united force of Goddesses; the mighty  Kali, Hecate, Medusa, Morrigan, Athena, Anubis, Rerek, Apopis, the Mimi and the Mamma Wata, Huli Jing, Yama Uba, Nafanua, Nana, Lunang Kafir, Zmora, Mokosh and Adsagsona…. to bring the guzzling beast to heel and save the WORLD!

                                                 INVOCATION AND DEFIANCE

                                THE ONLY ENEMY OF HUMANITY IS INHUMANITY

Hellen was accepted into the Actors Course at Victorian College Of The Arts at 17 and trained in both classical and modern formal acting techniques. She has trained with Opera Australia Diva, Arax Mansourian and is currently coached by renowned Maestra, Soprano Lisa Cooper, also previously with Opera Australia.

She has recorded and performed with Australian musicians such as Mick Harvey (Birthday Party, Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey Band),  Jim Mogienie (Midnight Oil), Tex Perkins (The Cruel Sea, Beasts Of Bourbon), Doc Neeson (The Angels) and Stu 'Spasm' Gray (Art Gray Noiz).

She was the Principal Actor and Assistant Director of Lindzee Smyth’s Nightshift Theatre Asylum in Sydney 1995-1997 originally Night Shift Theatre NY.

Hellen has worked alongside George Gittoes in war zones around the world. Hellen was the first woman to sing in public to a mixed gender audience in 80 years on International Women's Day 2017 at the Governor's Palace, Jalalabad Afghanistan.

Co-founder of The Yellow House Jalalabad 2012- with Artist/Film Maker George Gittoes. Co recipient of the NSW Premiers Award 2014.

She is Assistant Director and Actor on 5 Pashtun Drama’s made in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Hellen is the first European woman to appear in Pashtun Films. 

In 2017 on International Women’s Day she was the first woman to sing to a mixed gender public audience in Afghanistan in 80 years at the Governors Palace Jalalabad. 

Assistant Director/Actor/Musician on ‘Love City Jalalabad’ and Music Director on the award winning and AFI finalist 2016, ‘Snow Monkey’, both films Directed by partner George Gittoes.

Hellen was Co Producer and Music Director on ‘White Light’ screened on the ABC 2020. 

Director – Haunted Burqa winner of over 14 International film awards, screening at Event Cinema’s George St on September 11th for the Sydney Underground Film Festival and Durgapur International Film Festival West Bengal. 

Co Creator and exhibiting artist ‘Victory' exhibition, Irpin Ukraine June 2022. 

www.hellenrose.com

Image Portrait by Ave Libertatemaveamor

Jeffrey Wegener is a musician and drummer who has played in some of the most interesting bands in Australia & the work ,including the Saints , the birthday party, the young charlatans & with Loui Tillett & and million more.

He has collaborated in performance art pieces of note with Leni Hoffman Brisbane 1994 & 2009 with Kate Richards , Hellen Rose 2023 

He thinks himself always a student of thedrumset  as the creative possibilities are endless.

Bruce “Cub” Callaway is a songwriter, singer, guitarist and producer with a significant

influence on Australian independent music producing many internationally critically

acclaimed albums for Ed Keupper, The Triffids, Louis Tillet and Damien Lovelock. 

Callaway has played with The Saints, The New Christs. 

Callaway is a prolific song writer releasing many albums in the last 10 years. Since 2023, Callaway formed The Hovering Spooks with Phil Hall and Peter Timmerman playing live gigs and releasing new material.