Waterstones: An Evening With Melissa Auf der Maur

Melissa Auf der Maur’s Even the Good Girls Will Cry is a captivating portrait of the 1990s; rock’s final decade in analogue. A creative shape-shifter, she joined the Smashing Pumpkins ahead of her work with Hole.   Subsequently she has been acclaimed as a record producer, solo performer and photographer.  Hear Melissa discuss her writing about the music and the personalities of the US alt-rock scene.

Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maur’s first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her bohemian home town, Montreal. Sensing Melissa’s talent, Billy Corgan recommended her to Courtney Love. Whisked from her local scene, Melissa joined Hole just after the deaths of Kurt Cobain and Hole’s prior bassist, Kristen Pfaff, with the just-widowed Courtney Love at the centre of it all.

MELISSA AUF DER MAUR is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, best known as the former bassist of rock bands Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins. In 2007, VH1 included her as #68 on the list of ‘100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll.’ She is also the co-creative director and owner of Basilica Hudson, a performance centre in Hudson, NY, where she lives.

Book & ticket option includes a hardback copy of Even The Good Girls Will Cry (rrp £22) available for collection on the night.

DOORS 6.30pm | EVENT 7.00pm