The Vamps - Australia's first female rock group
The Vamps, Brisbane Exhibition Show, September 1966. Six members on stage, including a spruker. Wild Girls for Hire In the December 1965 edition of OZ magazine, Sydney, edited by Richard Neville and Richard Walsh and featuring the art of Martin Sharp, the following brief advertisement appeared on page 4, under the classified ads section: This rather provocative and inviting notice - put together by Richard Neville, Marsha Rowe and Paul Landa - in an equally provocative magazine, laid it out clearly for all to see - the Vamps were an exciting act and, most notably, the first female rock group in Australia, having formed in April 1965. This is a claim made a decade before that most famous of female rock groups - The Runaways from the United States - made their mark on the charts and in live performance around the world. Groups such as the Vamps were pioneers in an area of entertainment which was dominated by male musicians. Women such as Margaret Britt in Australia and Suzi Qua