The Vaselines

The Vaselines are a Glasgow-formed alternative rock group whose records were released by Sub Pop. This concert brings the band to Gorilla, a concert and performance venue in Manchester.

The Vaselines were formed in Glasgow by singers and guitarists Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, who signed to Stephen Pastel's 53rd & 3rd label, run by the frontman of The Pastels. The duo issued two 12-inch singles, 'Son of a Gun'and 'Dying For It', before their debut album, Dum-Dum, appeared in 1989, the year the group split up.

Nirvana's Kurt Cobain often praised the band in interviews with the music press. Nirvana later recorded 'Molly's Lips'and 'Son of a Gun', both gathered on the Incesticide collection, and performed 'Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam'on MTV Unplugged, which introduced the songs to a wider international audience. The Vaselines reformed in 2008, releasing Sex With an X on Sub Pop in 2009 and V For Vaselines on their own label, Rosary Music, in 2014.

Kelly and McKee both continued writing, recording and touring after the original split. This concert at Gorilla, a Manchester venue on Whitworth Street West, offers the chance to hear the band's catalogue from the early Glasgow records through to their reformed output.