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14/09/2010

It's legends night on 6 Music with Marc Riley, Cowboy Rob Hughes and Kurt Cobain's favourite Scottish band, The Vaselines.

It's legends night on 6 Music with Marc Riley, Cowboy Rob Hughes and Kurt Cobain's favourite Scottish band the Vaselines.

Legendary Scottish band the Vaselines make their second appearance in the Riley studio to plug their second album "Sex with an X", which is coming out just 21 years after the first.

The Vaselines originally formed in Glasgow in 1987 and recorded two singles and one album before splitting up in 1989 - the same week the album was released. Posthumous fame beckoned however when Nirvana covered not one but three of their tunes. In the meantime founding members Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee remained active both solo and in bands such as Captain America (aka Eugenius) the Painkillers and Suckle before touring together in 2006. However it was an unannounced appearance at a fundraiser for Malawi Orphan Support in 2008 which brought about their latest reunion. They've since toured America Brazil, Japan and now finally the UK.
"Sex with an X" was recorded in Mossley outside Manchester in just thirteen days with Jamie Watson in the producers seat; Jamie also produced that first album Dum Dum all those years ago. The Vaselines are currently Eugene and Frances with guest musicians Stevie Jackson and Bob Kildea from Belle & Sebastian on guitar and bass, and Michael McGaughrin from the 1990s on drums.

2 hours

Last on

Tue 14 Sep 2010 19:00

Music Played

  • The Vaselines

    Overweight But Over You

  • Peter Gabriel

    Modern Love

  • The Joy Formidable

    I Don't Want To See You Like This

  • Charly Blue And The Colours

    Meteorite Hits Cafe

  • Shrag

    Ghosts Before Breakfast

  • Nectarine Number 9

    These Days

  • John Martyn

    Seven Black Roses

  • Erland and the Carnival

    You Don't Have To Be Lonely

  • Edwyn Collins

    I Still Believe In You

  • The Vaselines

    The Devil Inside Me

  • Diagram Brothers

    Bikers

  • Can

    Father Cannot Yell

  • Sweet Baboo - Too The Sea

  • Jacques Brel

    Les Bonbons

  • The Vaselines

    Turning It On

  • Cream

    Tales Of Brave Ulysses

  • Johnny Cash

    Hurt

  • The Seeds

    Can't Seem To Make You Mine

  • Clinic

    Baby

  • Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell

    Picking Wild Mountain Berries

  • James Sullivan

    Johnny

  • Culture

    Fussin' And Fightin'

Broadcast

  • Tue 14 Sep 2010 19:00

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