THE VASELINES - Sex With An X - New Album + Gigs

 

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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY from THE VASELINES 

‘Mouth To Mouth’  - The new single released Feb 14th  2011
[From the brilliant new album, ‘Sex With An X’  - Out Now]
Appearance at Bowlie 2 / ATP Dec 11^th + UK Tour Dates Jan + Feb 2011

Following one of pop music’s most unlikely comebacks, The Vaselines continue to ride high on the success of their second album in 20 years with a new single and European tour. ‘Mouth To Mouth’ is released on Valentines Day 2011, here’s what The Vaselines have to say about it:

Frances: "We nearly called it Kissing With A K"

Eugene: "It's about someone who needs medical attention and maybe some mental and physical attention...some TLC and a bit of kissing also..."

The Vaselines have had a busy year - Sold Out UK shows in September, followed by a month-long tour of North America joined by Vaselines super-fans Dum Dum Girls, an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as well as gigs in Mexico with Belle & Sebastian. The Vaselines are back on the road for these UK shows early next year :

[ support on all shows is from jagged rock minimalists  Schwervon! ]

26 Jan      Sheffield                   Leadmill      
  

27 Jan      Brighton                    Coalition      
  

04 Feb     London                      XOYO      
  

05 Feb     Manchester            Sound Control  

06 Feb     York                           The Duchess     

THE SUN - Single of the Week - 5/5 - sunny-toned, tongue in cheek ode to romantic rekindling is all Jesus and Mary Chain guitars and drawly boy-girl dueting. Amazing

NME - they've not lost their smutty tongue and 'Sex with an X' is packed with lyrics that would make the most seasoned of sailors squirm

ARTROCKER - 5/5 - huge choruses, sexual demands, rockabilly interludes.. and evidence of a band still strangely in their prime despite a 20-year UFO abduction. How's that for a slick re-entry? 

THE TIMES - their songwriting chemistry is still intact; a wry, ironic look at relationships set to ramshackle two-and-a-half chord garage pop

THE FLY - the punchy spirit of a band that's never stopped..a fine return

ROCK SOUND - Hail the Vaselines!.. it's so good it just has to be bad for you

CLASH - dirty indie-pop with a multiplicity of guitar sounds and some genuinely great songs

THE PAST - Formed in Glasgow in 1987, THE VASELINES released two singles and one album, Dum Dum, on the 53rd & 3rd label. Splitting up in 1989 (in the same week their album was released), they might have faded into obscurity but for the intervention of a certain band from Seattle. Nirvana covered three Vaselines songs, helping to fuel a growing after-the-fact appreciation of their seedy, two-and-a-half chord, garage pop manifesto.

Founding members Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee remained musically active throughout the intervening years: the former with Captain America aka Eugenius and finally as a solo artist; McKee with Painkillers and Suckle.

Eugene and Frances collaborated intermittently in the intervening years. They toured jointly and played a few of the old songs together in the wake of their respective solo project releases in 2006. But an acclaimed, unannounced appearance at a fundraiser in Glasgow's Mono for Malawi Orphan Support in 2008 was the real catalyst for their latest, exciting bout of creativity.  

Ensuing tours of America (including a stand-out appearance at Sub Pop’s 20th anniversary festival, SP20), Brazil, Japan and some UK festival dates saw THE VASELINES “re-connect” with wildly appreciative audiences who had blinked and missed them the first time round. Buoyed by the success of their live return, the two punk rock chums decided to go back into the studio. 

THE PRESENT - Recorded outside Manchester at the Analogue Catalogue studio in Mossley with Julie McLarnon engineering and produced by Jamie Watson who produced that first album Dum Dum, Sex with an X was recorded the old-fashioned way: twelve songs in thirteen days (plus two b-sides). THE VASELINES ca. 2010 is 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. It may have taken THE VASELINES 20 years to get round to making this baby, but it was worth the wait—bringing their solo careers to a climax. The irony has not been lost. Who says indie music can't be fun? No hand-wringing on these tracks—just good clean smut with a twist of bitter.

THE FUTURE...belongs to THE VASELINES. 

Free downloads and videos at:  www.thevaselines.co.uk