00:03I remember when the careers officer came round to the school and I just said I want to be a
00:09brain
00:09sergeant or a pop star. What is a girl band? What makes it different from just a band?
00:21Sick of being the only girl all the time. We were a novelty. We got up as three girls.
00:27Any band is like a gang. When it's a girl gang it's even more powerful.
00:31And we did Wembley with Rolling Stones. Men were terrified of us. I came from a really poor family
00:41in Glasgow. And then I was being driven about limousines. Rehearsing the dance is the best fun
00:46on the planet. Please welcome his latest flame. This is global. They put a lot of money into us,
00:55you know, you've got to deliver. 250 grand into an album. You can't turn around and say I don't like
01:01it.
01:02Record company execs wanted us to ditch the band and create Bananarama and we said no.
01:09The kind of major label thing was just too much. We did get hassled and you did get some pretty
01:16unpleasant stuff go on. Sexual assault. Sexual assault.
01:21You need to understand the struggles of women in the music industry. There's a struggle and we
01:26know it. I think they just don't know what to do with a girl band.
01:34It went from punk rock to glitz and glamour. An all-girl band in America. We were so much
01:40more accepted. It was quite audacious. We had agency. Nobody was telling us what to do.
01:46This is music and that's it. Against the odds, girl bands in Scotland did get up on stage. They
01:54trailblazed. They pioneered. They refused to compromise. We should celebrate them.
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