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Dundalk Gaol will welcome The Vaselines to its stage on Saturday 22 March 2025
The Vaselines were formed in Glasgow in 1987 by singers/guitarists Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee. 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’ as well as perform ‘Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam’ on their legendary MTV Unplugged appearance.
Kelly would go on to join Nirvana onstage at the 1991 Reading Festival with a performance of Molly's Lips. Cobain, like fellow Vaseline fans recognised that lewd but naïve and abrasive yet tender, the band's shambling, primitivist squall was the perfect distillation of pop at its most guileless and euphoric.
Kelly and McKee went on to pursue solo projects but reunited in 2010 to record Sex With An X which was released on the Seattle label Sub Pop. This was followed by V for Vaselines in 2014. The Ramones inspired album featured many of the same players who helped make 'Sex.....', including Belle and Sebastian's Stevie Jackson, the 1990's Michael McGaughrin and Teenage Fanclub's Francis Macdonald.
Tickets for this intimate, seated show are €25 and are available from www.orielcentre.ie
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