Enid Williams

If you think it couldn't get any bigger, than you have to watch this DVD. Sold out in March, more than 5 month before the festival, 90,000 Metal Heads followed the call to celebrate the biggest Metal Fest in the World. This mega-event can now be celebrated at home!!

Loud, fearless and (un)typical girls: Gina Birch (The Raincoats) and Helen Reddington (Helen McCookerybook), musicians and punk icons turned directors, serve up a fascinating documentary built on new interviews with the women who played instruments in punk bands in the 1970s. In accounts laced with wit, honesty and insight, pioneering players including the Adverts’ Gaye Black (bass), Palmolive from The Slits (drums), Shanne Bradley from The Nips (bass), Jane Munro from The Au Pairs (bass), Hester Smith and Rachel Bor from Dolly Mixture (drums and guitar), bassist Gina and guitarist Ana Da Silva from The Raincoats, as well as many others, we hear about acquiring instruments, learning to play, forming bands and getting gigs.

Girlschool from London are one of the very first successful all female hard rock and metal bands out there. On August 6th 2011 they took to the stage at Wacken. Setlist: "Demolition Boys", "C'mon Let's Go", "Not for Sale", "Hit and Run", "I Spy", "Never Say Never", "Screaming Blue Murder", "Future Flash", "Everything's the Same", "Yeah Right", "Race With the Devil", "Emergency", "Take It All Away"