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Girlschool – London 1980 – Deadline




By Jeffrey Easton

When you the metal public think of classic all girl bands, does anything else come to mind besides Vixen or The Runaways?  Usually I would get a no but that’s because you were not trained to be a fan of Girlschool. If you grew up in the UK in the early 80’s it was Girlschool and that’s all you needed to know, especially when they teamed up with Lemmy to do Please Don’t Touch.  With London 1980, we find them at the beginning of their careers right after the release of their first album Demolition and live they were hungry as hell.  The blistering live set opens up with the UK classic Demolition Boys and the band had the audience primed. The disc finds the grimey band plowing through Demolition in the live setting with the nasty cuts Midnight Ride, Race With the Devil as well as Breakdown and Take It All Away.  Also features their bombastic cover of ZZ Top’s Tush which ended up on their second album Hit And Run. Girlschool represented what was so good about the NWOBHM and it begs you to go back with them with London 1980 when their idea for the metal scene was still new and as searing as the edge of a razor.

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