Girls At Our Best!

Girls at Our Best! were a British post-punk band, founded in Leeds, England in 1979 under the name The Butterflies. They had several UK Independent Singles Chart hits during their three-year existence.

The group initially consisted of vocalist Judy "Jo" Evans, guitarist James "Jez" Alan, bassist Gerard "Terry" Swift and drummer Chris Oldroyd. They took their new name from a line in their track "Warm Girls", released as the B-side to their self-financed 1980 debut single "Getting Nowhere Fast". The single, released in April 1980 on their own Record Records, reached No. 9 on the UK Indie Chart.

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Festive Fifty Entries

 * None

Sessions
One session only. Released as The Peel Sessions (12", Strange Fruit, 1987).

1. Recorded 1981-02-17. First broadcast 23 February 1981. Repeated 21 May 1981, 12 August 1981, 02 September 1986.
 * China Blue / This Train / Getting Beautiful/Warm Gold/Fast From Nowhere

Other Shows Played

 * 1980
 * 31 March 1980: Getting Nowhere Fast (7") Record Records
 * 07 April 1980: Getting Nowhere Fast (7") Record
 * 10 April 1980 (BFBS): Getting Nowhere Fast (7") Record
 * 14 April 1980: Getting Nowhere Fast (7") Record
 * 26 April 1980 (BFBS): Getting Nowhere Fast (7") Record
 * 07 May 1980: Getting Nowhere Fast (7") Record
 * 17 May 1980 (BFBS): Getting Nowhere Fast (7") Record
 * 19 May 1980: Getting Nowhere Fast (7 inch) Record
 * 14 June 1980 (BFBS): Getting Nowhere Fast (7") Record
 * 07 July 1980: Getting Nowhere Fast (7") Record
 * 30 August 1980 (BFBS): Getting Nowhere Fast (7") Record
 * 21 October 1980‎: Politics! (7") Rough Trade
 * 28 October 1980: Politics (7") Record


 * 1981
 * 09 March 1981: Getting Nowhere Fast (7") Record Records
 * 30 March 1981: Fashion
 * 16 April 1981: I'm Beautiful Now (7 inch-B side of Go For Gold) Happy Birthday
 * 11 May 1981: Go For Gold (7": Go For Gold!) Happy Birthday
 * 12 May 1981: I'm Beautiful Now (7": Go For Gold!) Happy Birthday
 * 13 May 1981: I'm Beautiful Now (7": Go For Gold!) Happy Birthday (JP: "That is terrific you know, I'm very partial to that indeed" and "That's the sort of record everybody ought to be playing every hour on the hour I reckon. But on the other hand this is a world where half the Radio 1 typing pool was going barmy yesterday afternoon for an LP of TV theme tunes so I mean what can you do?")
 * 14 May 1981: I'm Beautiful Now (7": Go For Gold!) Happy Birthday
 * 19 May 1981: I'm Beautiful Now (7") Happy Birthday
 * 25 May 1981: Go For Gold! (7" - Go For Gold! / I'm Beautiful Now) Happy Birthday
 * 02 June 1981‎: Go For Gold! (7") Happy Birthday
 * 15 October 1981: Fun-City Teenagers (album - Pleasure) Happy Birthday
 * 26 October 1981: Fast Boyfriend (album - Pleasure) Happy Birthday
 * 12 November 1981 (BBC World Service): Heaven (album - Pleasure) Happy Birthday


 * 1982
 * 15 March 1982: Getting Nowhere Fast (7") Record
 * 08 December 1982: Getting Nowhere Fast (7") Record


 * 1983
 * 27 August 1983 (BFBS): Politics! (7") Record RR2 / Rough Trade RT 055


 * 1987
 * 07 April 1987: Fast Boyfriends (v/a LP - Seeds I : Pop) Cherry Red (Peel plays a track from Girls At Our Best, who did the original version of the Wedding Present's session track Getting Nowhere Fast.)
 * 12 June 1987 (BFBS): Getting Beautiful Warm Gold Fast From Nowhere (12"-The Peel Session) (Strange Fruit)
 * 22 June 1987: Getting Beautiful Warm Gold Fast From Nowhere (12" - The Peel Sessions) Strange Fruit


 * 1990
 * 06 August 1990: Politics (single) Record


 * 2004
 * 14 December 2004 (Rob Da Bank): Getting Beautiful Warm Gold Fast From Nowhere (Peel Session)