Xenia Splawinski (rhythm guitar)
Cynthia Ross (bass)
Locasta Ross (vocals)
Renee Chetsky (lead guitar/vox)
Marcy Saddy (drums)
Formed in 1977 after the main members met in a washroom after a Thin Lizzy concert. Toronto's B-Girls were kind of a cross between pre-Riot Grrrls punk and 50's/60's style fun pop a la the Shangri-Las. Were a fixture on both the Toronto Queen Street and the New York CBGB/Max's Kansas City punk scenes.
They slit up in 1981.
The re-issued CD 'Who Said Girls Can't Rock' contains live material and remixed 7" versions of many of the songs previously unreleased.
Saddy is a an esoteric visual artist and plays esoteric percussion often working in London, Ontario's Wortley Village; Cynthia Ross works for the City of Toronto; Lucasta Ross administers her late father Mort Ross's recordings from his label Revolver Records.
with notes from Greg Simpson, Marcy Saddy and Cynthia Ross.
Singles
1979 Fun At The Beach/'B'-Side (Bomp!)
Albums
1980 B-Day (GNP/Bomp!)
1997 Who Says Girls Can't Rock? (Other People's Music)
Video
Compilation Tracks
1980 "Fun At The Beach" on 'Experiments In Destiny' (Bomp!) - compilation
Collaborations
with STIV BATORS
1979 Stiv Bators & The Dead Boys [B-Girls supply backing vocals]
1981 Disconnected [B-Girls supply backing vocals & hand clapping]
with BLONDIE
1980 Autoamerican (Chrysalis) [B-Girls supply backing vocals]
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