Melissa Auf der Maur
ABOUT THE SHOW
In conversation with Pascalle Burton.
In the early 1990s, the golden age of grunge, a young musician from Montreal named Melissa Auf der Maur was asked to join Hole as the band’s new bassist. She turned the offer down. But Courtney Love, who was grieving the recent deaths of Kurt Cobain and former Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff, wouldn’t take no for an answer – so Melissa boarded a plane to Seattle and changed the course of her life.
Melissa’s riveting and intimate new memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry, charts her wild trip through the sounds and stories of ’90s alternative rock, from her years with Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins to her solo career. Join this living legend in conversation with poet and musician Pascalle Burton for a deep dive into the glory, angst and fever dreams of the last analogue decade.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Melissa Auf der Maur is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, best known as the former bassist of rock bands Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins. In 2007, VH1 included her as #68 on the list of ‘100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll.’ She is also the co-creative director and owner of Basilica Hudson, a performance centre in Hudson, NY, where she lives.
Pascalle Burton is an experimental poet based in Magandjin. She also plays in the band The Stress of Leisure. Her collection About the Author is Dead (2018) is available through Cordite Books, and the anthology, For Gaza, co-edited with Jeet Thayil, is forthcoming from HarperCollins India.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Melissa Auf der Maur is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, best known as the former bassist of rock bands Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins. In 2007, VH1 included her as #68 on the list of ‘100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll.’ She is also the co-creative director and owner of Basilica Hudson, a performance centre in Hudson, NY, where she lives.
Pascalle Burton is an experimental poet based in Magandjin. She also plays in the band The Stress of Leisure. Her collection About the Author is Dead (2018) is available through Cordite Books, and the anthology, For Gaza, co-edited with Jeet Thayil, is forthcoming from HarperCollins India.
