Frances McKee
Carla J Easton
SUNDAY 16TH FEBRUARY 2025
Doors 7:30pm
As a member of 'The Vaselines', Frances sang of killing pussycats and making muffs and hats out of their fur, and of riding raw young men called Rory. After years of such cheeky misbehaviour, she is no less inspired but certainly considerably darker in an autumnal Gothic sort of way.
Kurt Cobain was among McKee's most well-known fans, covering The Vaselines' songs "Molly's Lips", "Son of a Gun" and most notably "Jesus Don't Want me for aa Sunbeam" on Nirvana's critically acclaimed MTV unplugged session, bringing The Vaselines' music to a new audience. The Vaselines supported Nirvana on their 1990 tour, and Kurt's admiration for them was so great, singer, Mckee, provided inspiration when naming his daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
Frances was previously in Glasgow's BMX Bandits, a band who shared members with numerous other local bands, including Teenage Fanclub and the Soup Dragons and were another favourite band of Kurt Cobain's, who said "If I could be in any other band, it would be BMX Bandits".
In 2000 she found a new outlet for her evocatively dark, neo-gothic visions with her band, Suckle.
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