Pop quiz: What was the most successful all-girl British band? And by band, I mean they play their own instruments... so no Girls Aloud, Spice Girls or Sugababes.

Struggling? Here’s a clue: “Pink, Pink Sunshine!”

On the tip of your tongue? I’ll put you out of your misery: it was Fuzzbox.

The Brummie teenage four-piece topped off the 80s with lipstick pouts and pop-punk panache, the fore-runners to girl power showed sisters were doing it for themselves with top five album Big Bang! and hit singles Pink Sunshine, International Rescue and Self.

Now, after a 20-year absence, three of them – Vix Vox, and sisters Jo and Maggie Dunne – have regrouped for a second bout of indie-pop frolics. And it’s going down very well indeed.

“We are having tremendous fun,” she laughs.

So where have the girls been all this time? Well, working of course – which in guitarist Jo’s case meant holding down a job in the motor trade.

“Fuzzbox was great fun, she says, talking from Birmingham.

“We went from obscurity as a local pub band to touring in Europe and America and playing on Top of the Pops.

“What more fun could you have than wandering around the world being pop stars? I was 16 when we started, but we did end up having musical differences. We had varying ideas of what we wanted to do, so decided not to do it anymore.

“But there was no ‘handbags at dawn’ – we just decided to call it a day.”

But, two decades on, when Vix called out of the blue, she jumped at the chance to get back on stage.

“I was a little bit surprised,” she says. “But it’s absolutely brilliant.”

The band’s first tour since reunification sees them play the Oxford O2 Academy tonight – along with a couple of new recruits.

And, if previous gigs are anything to go by, it promises to be a grin-fest for fans old and new: “We’ve always been an upbeat band.

“And to anyone who thinks they might like us, we’ll promise you a great night.”