Helicopter Girl is the stage name of Jackie Joyce, a musician from Perth, Scotland

Perth, Scotland

Perth is a town and former city and royal burgh in central Scotland. Located on the banks of the River Tay, it is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and the historic county town of Perthshire...

. Her first album was 2000's How to Steal the World, which was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize. Also, in 2001, she appeared on the Rod Stewart

Rod Stewart

Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....

 album, Human,
performing with him on the track "Don't Come Around Here."

Joyce then took an extended break from the business before writing and recording her second album, Voodoo Chic, which featured the single "Angel City," and was released in 2004. The album Metropolitan was released in June 2008. It was preceded by the single "It Doesn't Get Much Better Than This", which was a top 10 Club hit in late 2007.

Discography

• How to Steal the World (Instant Karma Records, 2000)
• Voodoo Chic (Dharma Records
  Dharma Records
  Dharma Records is a UK-based independent record company. Dharma Records was established in 2002 to run alongside its sister company Instant Karma...
  
  , 2004; (released in 2005 in the USA on Robins Entertainment)
• Metropolitan (Dharma Records
  Dharma Records
  Dharma Records is a UK-based independent record company. Dharma Records was established in 2002 to run alongside its sister company Instant Karma...
  
  , 2008)

External links

• Helicopter Girl at MySpace
• Article from The Guardian
  The Guardian
  The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
  
  , 2004
• Instant Karma on the web
• Instant Karma myspace page