Girlschool: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 22 May 1982
THE SPECTACLE is always the same blinding flashes and smokebombs, loud guitar and pounding drums. The band dedicate the songs to the crowd, the crowd clap along when permitted. Tonight the name of the group is Girlschool.
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