THE VASELINES
Friday 15 Jul '11 - Belfast's The Black Box
- Support + Trevor Moss + Hannah-Lou
- Doors8pm
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{/map} {/venue_google_map}18 - 22 Hill Street
Belfast
BT1 2LA
T: 028 9024 4400
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Artist Bio
Formed in Glasgow in 1986, The Vaselines released two singles and one album, Dum Dum, on the 53rd & 3rd label. Splitting up in 1989 (in the same week their album was released), they might have faded into obscurity but for the intervention of a certain band from Seattle. Nirvana covered three Vaselines songs, helping to fuel a growing after-the-fact appreciation of their seedy, two-and-a-half chord, garage pop manifesto.
Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain once described Kelly and McKee as his “most favorite songwriters in the whole world”. With their songs “Son of a Gun” and “Molly’s Lips” covered on Nirvana’s album Incesticide and “Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam” covered on MTV Unplugged in New York the band gained a new audience. At the 1991 Reading Festival, Kelly joined Nirvana on stage for a performance of “Molly’s Lips.” In 1992, Sub Pop released The Way Of The Vaselines : A Complete History, a compilation that contained The Vaselines’ entire body of work.
Reforming in 2008, ensuing tours of America (including a stand-out appearance at Sub Pop’s 20th anniversary festival, SP20), Brazil, Japan and some UK festival dates saw The Vaselines “re-connect” with wildly appreciative audiences who had blinked and missed them the first time round. Buoyed by the success of their live return, the two punk rock chums decided to go back into the studio resulting in the Sex With An X (Sub Pop) album with guest musicians Stevie Jackson and Bob Kildea (Belle & Sebastian) on guitar and bass, and Michael McGaughrin (The 1990s) on drums. It may have taken The Vaselines 20 years to get round to making this baby, but it was worth the wait!