Girls At Our Best! https://www.girlsatourbest.com Getting Beautiful Warm Gold Fast From Nowhere Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:42:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.girlsatourbest.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cropped-GAOB-Site-Icon-32x32.jpg Girls At Our Best! https://www.girlsatourbest.com 32 32 Live Photo Gallery https://www.girlsatourbest.com/live-photo-gallery/ Mon, 23 Dec 2024 08:39:24 +0000 https://www.girlsatourbest.com/?p=1309 Updated with new pictures.

Added on 6th June 2024 – City of London Poly
Added in 23rd December 2024 – Leeds Warehouse

]]> Limited Edition “Getting Nowhere Fast”/Warm Girls” https://www.girlsatourbest.com/limited-edition-getting-nowhere-fast-warm-girls/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 16:42:59 +0000 https://www.girlsatourbest.com/?p=1267
Getting Nowehere Fast

2 track 7″ single pressed on black vinyl and limited to only 100 copies in wraparound sleeve

Tracklist;

Getting Nowhere Fast
Warm Girls 

Available for pre-order from Optic Nerve Records

This is not a paid advert!

]]> The Face #8 Interview https://www.girlsatourbest.com/the-face-8-interview/ Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:04:29 +0000 https://www.girlsatourbest.com/?p=1259 The Face Issue #8 January 1981 added to In The Press

]]> Pleasure Deluxe https://www.girlsatourbest.com/pleasure-deluxe/ Sat, 23 Apr 2022 11:24:24 +0000 https://www.girlsatourbest.com/?p=1185 Cherry Red have released a deluxe version of Pleasure.

You might recognise one of the live bootlegs and the radio interview 😉, but The Butterflies’ track is not available anywhere else.

]]> WNYF-FM Radio Interview https://www.girlsatourbest.com/wnyf-fm-radio-interview/ Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:44:24 +0000 https://www.girlsatourbest.com/?p=1172 6th November 1981 New York radio interview added to the Peppermint Lounge gig page

]]> Mixtape on Netflix https://www.girlsatourbest.com/mixtape-on-netflix/ Fri, 03 Dec 2021 00:00:53 +0000 https://www.girlsatourbest.com/?p=1147 Features Getting Nowhere Fast as the first track on the titular mixtape!

Mixtape

A 12 year old girl finds a broken mixtape belonging to the mother she never knew. She decides to track down each of the tape’s obscure songs in an effort to find out what her mother was like, leading to a reconciliation with the aunt who raised her.

Director: Valerie Weiss
Cast: Gemma Brooke Allen, Audrey Hsieh, Olga Petsa, Julie Bowen, Jackson Rathbone, Nick Thune
Writer: Stacey Menear

Mixtape on Netflix

]]> Getting Nowhere Fast Re-release https://www.girlsatourbest.com/getting-nowhere-fast-re-release/ Sun, 04 Oct 2020 10:24:16 +0000 http://www.girlsatourbest.com/?p=944 From the Optic Nerve Records website:

RELEASE DATE 30 APRIL 2021

PLEASE NOTE THAT £7.99 IS THE INDIVIDUAL PRICE FOR ONE SINGLE. IF MORE THAN ONE SINGLE IS PURCHASED FROM FROM ANYWHERE ACROSS THE SERIES THE PRICE IS REDUCED TO £6.99

PLEASE NOTE: If multiple singles are purchased from across the series they will be shipped together when the last single in the order is released.If you require the singles to be shipped as they are released, then please contact us as this may incur additional shipping costs .

2 Track 7″ Limited  on Coloured Vinyl

Includes postcard and poster
Part of the Optic Sevens 3.0 Reissue Series

Tracklist:
Getting Nowhere Fast
Warm Girls 

In 1980 post punk pop indie band GIRLS AT OUR BEST came out of nowhere (Well, Leeds actually) with GETTING NOWHERE FAST and was the NME’s Single Of The Week reaching the Top 10 of the indie chart. The band, fronted by Judy Evans, released four further singles plus the album PLEASURE which reached the UK album charts in 1981, before splitting up two years after this debut.

]]> Make More Noise! https://www.girlsatourbest.com/make-more-noise/ Tue, 21 Jul 2020 07:36:10 +0000 http://www.girlsatourbest.com/?p=938 Women In Independent Music UK 1977-1987, Various Artists, 4CD Bookpack
Various Artists

Cherry Red
£24.99 Released September 25, 2020.

Make More Noise

• 4CD / 90 track set exploring the work of female artists in the decade following the punk explosion.

• From household names and legends – Alison Moyet, Toyah, Kirsty MacColl, Nico, Tracey Thorn, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry, Pauline Murray, Sinead O’Connor, Tracey Ullman, Cosey Fanni Tutti – to underground figureheads and unsung pioneers.

• Spanning the genres – from the punk howl of X-Ray Spex and the NWOBHM stylings of Girlschool to Cosey Fanni Tutti’s post-TG electronica, the experimental dub of Vivien Goldman and the the High Street pop of Bananarama.

Features a Girls At Our Best! track: Fast Boyfriends.

]]> Peppermint Lounge https://www.girlsatourbest.com/peppermint-lounge/ Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:24:21 +0000 http://www.girlsatourbest.com/?p=907 Girls At Our Best! Live at the Peppermint Lounge 6th November 1981

]]> Girls’ Family Tree https://www.girlsatourbest.com/girls-family-tree/ Fri, 27 Mar 2020 10:11:31 +0000 http://www.girlsatourbest.com/?p=890 Girls Family Tree

This is a work in progress.

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