The Vaselines — live event
Please Please You & Brudenell Presents... 14+ (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult) The Vaselines were formed in Glasgow in 1987 by singers/guitarists Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, soon signing to Pastels frontman Stephen Pastel's newly formed 53rd & 3rd label. Nirvana's Kurt Cobain regularly cited the Vaseline’s influence in interviews with the music press and Nirvana would go on to cover the Vaselines' ‘Molly's Lips’ and ‘Son of a Gun’ (both later compiled on their Incesticide collection) as well as perform ‘Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam’ on their legendary MTV Unplugged appearance. Cobain's gospel-spreading no doubt accelerated their rise to cult sainthood, but the Vaselines would have gotten there sooner or later on their own accord. Lewd but naïve and abrasive yet tender, the band's shambling, primitivist squall remains a perfect distillation of pop at its most guileless and euphoric. Eugene Kelly later went on to front Captain America / Eugenius, while McKee spe…
Starts: 2025-05-21T19:30:00Z
Ends: 2025-05-21T21:30:00Z
Where: Sidney Street, England, United Kingdom
Price: $0.0