Girlschool, The Brook, Southampton

Girlschool's three guitar and drums line-up was pretty basic and so was their music, which relied on the overall barrage of sound rather than subtle lyrics.

Indeed if they hadn't announced the titles of songs like Come On Up, Not For Sale and Hit and Run I wouldn't have had a clue what they were singing about.

Come to think of it I still don't, although I did hear random phrases like "let's get hard, let's get hot" and "screaming blue murder", though that didn't help much.

The crowd seemed to enjoy it but the charms of heavy metal remain a mystery to me.