GIRLSCHOOL’s Kim McAuliffe Talks on How Girlschool Almost Altered Metal History & Band’s Final Tour + New Bass Player

The Metal Voice recently interviewed Girlschool guitarist/ singer Kim McAuliffe. She spoke about the band’s last North American tour (w/ Alcatrazz & Lillian Axe), touring with the biggest names in metal over the years, new bassist and maybe one career choice she would have changed.

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 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 UK hit Cum on Feel the noize.

The longest tenured all-female rock band and NWOBHM legends GIRLSCHOOL will be embarking on the last leg of their final North American tour this autumn! The trek will conquer the West Coast and Southwest from October 16 until drawing the final curtain on November 5. More dates are TBA!

The trek will see rotating direct support from LILLIAN AXE and ALCATRAZZ. The itinerary can be found below while tickets are now on sale and can be found HERE