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The LADYBIRDS : Thursday 22nd March 1973 : £200

Pop music researcher David Andrews of Weston Super Mare unearthed a picture of the LADYBIRDS, a Swedish cabaret outfit that usually performed without their outfits! In March 1973 they were booked to play a week at the Webbington Country Club just outside Bristol with their short set of current pop songs. They contacted the Granary to ask if they could do a gig at the Gran as they wanted a chance to perform a selection of material of a more rock genre. As they were also happy come on stage in their usual outfits (white leather bikini bottoms only) we thought it would be worth a try (for artistic purposes only). They weren’t musically up to much but no-one seemed to care and the girls were well received. One of the band rewarded the lads in the front row, who had been cheering all the way through the set with a brief full frontal as she whipped off  her briefs. She, however, was not so happy about the fact that one of the lads made off with her white leather bikini bottom as a trophy. Upset as it was part of the outfit she needed for her gig the next day at the Webbington something had to be done in a huury. Al was a bit of a dab hand at tailoring having been involved in menswear retailing for some years (the Plastic Dog offices were upstairs from the Park Street shop that Al ran) so overnight, using the remnants of an old white leather jacket, Al made an acceptable replica of the missing brief.  The young Ladybird lass was very grateful!!!

No sooner was this article was published, than the following message was entered on the Granary Guest Book by Marianne Dow in the USA: “Your readers might enjoy my article and pix of the Ladybirds Topless All Girl Band @ http://tinyurl.com/ladybirds-band on my Burlesque Babes Blog which is about vintage Burlesque Queens and Strippers from the 1950s and 1960s era.”  And then another picture turned up and, this time, in full colour

The LADYBIRDS : Thursday 22nd March 1973 : £200