A GIRLSCHOOL FOR HEADBANGERS!

In a rehearsal room on the southwest London suburb of Putney, Girlschool lead guitar player Kelly Johnson and rhythm guitarist Kim McAuliffe are swigging from bottles of German beer during a break in their efforts to write a number of new songs for their third LP, a record they are sporadically making, with the assistance of former Police co-producer Nigel Gray.

Down the corridor, in what Kelly and Kim refer to as “the common-room,” drummer Denise Dufort and new bass player Gil Weston are watching this week’s British chartmovers on Top Of The Pops.