Women's Swing Band plays Glenn Miller 1980s
1980
Betty continued to be involved in women's music.
?In the 80s there was the Women's Swing Band which was about
thirteen or fourteen women, which wasn?t exclusively lesbian. I have
memories of humping the speakers up those wretched stairs at the
Mermaid on Stratford Road; it was grim. Barbie was in it, that was
around the time Barbie got involved with Ro, because I can remember Ro
coming to rehearsals. She didn?t play anything. There was that odd
straight woman who giggled a lot and who was usually stoned, from
Handsworth, called Marion. We had all sorts of instruments and played
big band, Glenn Miller, that sort of thing.?
Contributed by: Betty Hagglund, 50