The Metal Voice recently interviewed Girlschool guitarist/ singer Kim McAullife. She spoke about the band's last North American tour (w/ Alcatrazz & Lillian Axe), touring with the biggest names in metal over the years and maybe one career choice she would have changed.
Watch full interview here
When asked if it was difficult to let go current bass player Tracy Lamb
"Normally people have trouble with drummers, we seem to have problems with bass players. Tracy left due to personal reasons. It's a long story. She lives in Spain and her boyfriend had a bad accident, it was touch and go and she decided she could not come to America but to stay with him. So now we ended up with Olivia Airey, Don Airey's niece. She is a youngster. Now the weirdest thing about that is that when Enid left all those years ago. The late great Malcolm Dome recommended Olivia to us. But at that point Tracy Lamb had come back. So this time when Tracy went we just phoned her up (Olivia) and asked her are you up for it? And she said yeah and of course that is it, two weeks later she is playing with us. She comes from a very musical Family."
When asked if there were any career choices she regretted back in the early days ,
"Well there is one, sort of big one but I don't really regret it cause I wouldn't have been where I am right now. We got a choice for our fourth album Play Dirty, (82-83). We had a choice whether we could go to America, to L.A. and record with producer Spencer Proffer or stay in London and record with our heroes Jim (Lea) and Noddy (Holder) from Slade. We just wanted to record with our heroes and stay in London. Yeah we turned it down! "
Authors note" In the same time frame when Spencer Proffer was working with Quiet Riot on their Metal Health album and persuaded the band to record Slade's U.K. hit Cum on Feel the noize.
GIRLSCHOOL comments: "We are very excited to announce the first leg of our return to the USA for the first time in nearly a decade... and for what will be our final full tour of the United States. Also with us on this package we have the brilliant ALCATRAZZ and LILLIAN AXE.
GIRLSCHOOL is touring in support of its latest full-length album, "WTFortyfive?", which was released in July via Silver Lining Music.
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