page_title: List of Girlschool band members
section_title: Jackie Chambers
hierarchical_section_title: List of Girlschool band members / Current members / Jackie Chambers
caption_attribution_description: English: Jackie Chambers of the Heavy metal band Girlschool at Bloodstock Open Air 2009
context_page_description: Girlschool are an all-female British heavy metal band, founded in 1978. The original members Kim McAuliffe, Enid Williams, Kelly Johnson and Denise Dufort came from the club cover band Painted Lady. During the early 1980s the band was one of the relevant groups of the new wave of British heavy metal movement, entering the British charts with both singles and albums. Unlike many heavy metal bands, Girlschool often had more than one lead vocalist, with vocal duties in the 'classic' line-up shared amongst Williams, McAuliffe and Johnson.
  Williams was the first to leave the band, in 1982, under very stressful circumstances, and was replaced by punk rocker Gil Weston. Kelly Johnson left in 1984 and went to live in the United States.
  In 1985, Girlschool veered towards a more commercial and American FM-friendly sound and expanded to a five-piece group, with Cris Bonacci replacing Johnson on lead guitar and Jackie Bodimead joining on lead vocals. This formation was short-lived; Bodimead left in 1986 and Girlschool then reverted to a four-piece line-up.
context_section_description: (Leeds, 27 March 1964)
  Active: 1999–present
  Instruments: lead guitar, backing vocals
  Chambers is a self-taught guitarist who played in some punk bands in her native Leeds and then in London, before starting to write music with Kim McAuliffe around 1995. She shared a flat in London for seven years with Kelly Johnson, and both Johnson and Cris Bonacci assisted her in becoming an accomplished lead guitarist, in order that she might replace them in the band. Chambers' debut performance with the band was at Venue 27, Luton, England, on 5 October 2000. She soon became a driving force for the band, contributing both to the band’s stage image and as a songwriter. In 2007, Chambers became a member of the reformed Blitzkrieg, a British punk band from Southport. She divided her time between London and Los Angeles, where she composed and performed her own music until March 2012, when she returned to live in Leeds. In 2015 she formed a new band alongside her work with Girlschool called Syteria, a female-fronted pop-punk band in Yorkshire.
caption: Jackie Chambers live in 2009
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