Metal Anarchy

Girlschool will be releasing their “Nothin’ To Lose In Reading 1981” live album on CD, vinyl, and digitally on September 25. The first single, a live version of “Nothin’ To Lose,” can be streamed below:

“Nothin’ To Lose In Reading 1981” Track Listing:

01. “C’mon Let’s Go”
02. “The Hunter”
03. “(I’m Your) Victim”
04. “Breakdown”
05. “Nothin’ To Lose”
06. “Hit ‘N Run”
07. “Tonight”
08. “Race With The Devil”
09. “Yeah Right”

A press release noted that the band’s time at the festival did not go smoothly behind the scenes:

“The band’s hired car — a pink Caddy said to have belonged to actress Jayne Mansfield — was involved in a fender bender and arrived at the venue ‘broken and rattling.’ Then, one of the roadies restrung lead guitarist Kelly Johnson’s guitar with two D strings; and, finally, the band’s flashing neon backdrop was sabotaged by one of the other bands on the bill.”

Vocalist/guitarist Kim McAuliffe continued:

“The thing with Kelly is, she was such a genius and natural player, you could put anything in front of her and she could play it. She had an instinct. I used to watch her onstage sometimes, and I was quite amazed by her. She was such an incredible presence on stage. [The roadie] could probably have handed her a guitar with four strings and she’d still have been brilliant. I don’t think having two strings the same would have bothered her at all.”

She also added:

“I’d been there a couple of years before, standing on the other side in the mud, with this big plastic bag thing over me and knee deep in mud. So happy to be there, grinning away, having the time of my life. Little did I know I’d actually be headlining a couple of years later. It was absolutely nuts.

We had the biggest pyrotechnic flashpots ever. Huge things. And apparently they could be heard seven miles away, so we were pleased about that. People wondering what the hell was going on with these massive bangs.”