Rare pro-shot video of an interview and performance by the group

All too often, every great female rock musician has to answer a predictable question - what is it like being a girl in a band? For many, the sight of a girl shredding a guitar or laying into the drums is still a bit of a novelty. As soon as women started forming their own bands they were given labels - the rock chick, the girl band or one half of the rock 'n' roll couple. Kate Mossman aims to look beyond the cliches of fallen angels, grunge babes and rock chicks as she gets the untold stories from rock's frontline to discover if it has always been different for the girl in a band.

Between 1992 and 1996 Phil King took an old ’80s Sankyo Super 8 camera pretty much wherever he went with Lush. Mostly filming on tour – in Japan, Europe and especially the US (Lush Into America) – and also on video and film shoots and to recording studios.

Launched 30 years ago, Loaded magazine epitomised the 90s in its irreverence and appetite for hedonism. But how did it stand up to pressure to put more 'sexy babes' on the cover?