The Vaselines on Their First Album for Two Decades

Filed under: Q + AThe first time round, the Vaselines were over before they'd even really started. After releasing their 1989 debut, 'Dum-Dum,' the Glaswegian indie-poppers promptly broke up. They might have faded into obscurity were it not for Kurt Cobain, who once described Frances McKee and Eugene Kelly, the partnership at the heart of the band, as his "favourite songwriters in the whole world". Nirvana covered two Vaselines songs, 'Molly's Lips' and 'Son of a Gun', on their 1992 album 'Insec...

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