History
Contemporaries of acts such as Young Marble Giants and The Raincoats, the group applied the DIY ethic of the time to record a self-produced and self-released cassette called A Day By The Sea. They went on to record an album Beach Party which was recorded in a garden shed and released on In-Phaze then re-released by Dan Treacy of Television Personalities for his label Whaam! Records. In October 1981, Thorn moved to Hull to attend university, and Hartman left the band in 1981 to pursue other musical projects whilst the Fox sisters both went on to art school in Brighton. The group still performed together and released a second album, Lazy Ways, in April 1983.
From 1982, Thorn concentrated on her studies and her growing personal and professional relationship with fellow Hull student Ben Watt (who had contributed a photograph for the cover of Lazy Ways album). As Everything But The Girl, their first single included a re-recording of the Marine Girls song, "On My Mind".
Marine Girls formally disbanded in 1983. Thorn achieved success with Everything But The Girl, while the Fox sisters recorded as Grab Grab the Haddock.
Beach Party was named as one of Kurt Cobain's 50 favourite albums in his diaries. The two albums were reissued as a "two-fer" on CD by Cooking Vinyl in 1997.
Marine Girls recorded two Peel Sessions. Their first one contains five songs; "Don't Come Back", "Love To Know", "He Got The Girl", "Fever" and "A Place in the Sun".
Their second Peel Session contains four songs; "Lazy Ways", "That Day" (otherwise unavailable by Marine Girls although reworked by Grab Grab the Haddock), "Seascape" (otherwise unavailable by Marine Girls although reworked by Tracey Thorn for her debut solo album A Distant Shore) and a cover version of "Love You More" by Buzzcocks. Thorn doesn't sing on this Peel Session.
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