{"id":20468,"date":"2023-01-02T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=20468"},"modified":"2022-12-31T18:32:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T18:32:36","slug":"girlschool-the-school-report-hne-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=20468","title":{"rendered":"Girlschool &#8211; &#8216;The School Report&#8217; (HNE Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>In-depth box set, delving right back to the band\u2019s pub rock roots right up until the present.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A celebration of Girlschool\u2019s 40 plus years of rocking the globe, kicking off with their independently released 45 \u2018Take It All Away\u2019 b\/w \u2018It Could Be Better\u2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/91K20ZTsHcL._AC_SL1500_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/91K20ZTsHcL._AC_SL1500_-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/91K20ZTsHcL._AC_SL1500_-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/91K20ZTsHcL._AC_SL1500_-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/91K20ZTsHcL._AC_SL1500_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/91K20ZTsHcL._AC_SL1500_-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/91K20ZTsHcL._AC_SL1500_-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/91K20ZTsHcL._AC_SL1500_-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/91K20ZTsHcL._AC_SL1500_.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Formed at school in the mid-70s, \u00a0<strong>Kim McAuliffe\u00a0<\/strong>and bassist\u00a0<strong>Enid Williams\u00a0<\/strong>joined forces as\u00a0<strong>Painted Lady. <\/strong>It wasn&#8217;t until 78 that Girlschool\u00a0formed. Guitarist\u00a0Kelly Johnson\u00a0and drummer\u00a0Denise Dufort\u00a0in April of &#8217;78.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With their Debut album \u2018Demolition\u2019 breaking into the UK Top 30 a couple of years later, it was their follow-up \u2018Hit And Run\u2019 (1981) where I got interested. As a teenager, I couldn&#8217;t get enough of their EP &#8216;Valentines Day Massacre\u2019 recorded with label mates Mot\u00f6rhead as\u00a0<strong>HeadGirl<\/strong>. 1982\u2019s \u2018Wildlife\u2019 EP would be Enid\u2019s last outing with Girlschool for a while, as she was replaced on bass by\u00a0<strong>Gil Weston\u00a0<\/strong>for \u2018Screaming Blue Murder\u2019 (1982). Listening back to the two albums and EP many years later they were really onto something with their punky attitude mixed with the hard-rocking delivery they were playing by their own rules in a very difficult market with only The Runaways on the other side of the pond offering all-female line ups a fighting chance and they certainly had the chops to stand shoulder to shoulder with their peers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a lot of music to get through and with a steady swirl of players through the ever-revolving door saw a dip in the quality of the music with the real high points being those first two albums by what has to be the classic lineup. There is however a whole load of interest in Disc 4 in this set featuring many rare B-Sides and non-album songs, as well as demos dating way back in 1978 right up to 2002, as well as Disc 5, being a really rare live outing from pre-Girlschool Painted Lady that is a must own for any fans of the band and hearing what they sounded like pre &#8216;Demolition&#8217;. To round off this excellent deep dive you also get sleeve notes from NWOBHM expert\u00a0<strong>John Tucker<\/strong>, as well as plenty of rare photos from the band&#8217;s archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buy <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3EqVULS\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3EqVULS\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author: Dom Daley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formed at school in the mid-70s, \u00a0Kim McAuliffe\u00a0and bassist\u00a0Enid Williams\u00a0joined forces as\u00a0Painted Lady. It wasn&#8217;t until 78 that Girlschool\u00a0formed. 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