the Vaselines are reuniting! The Scottish act, helmed by Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, will reconvene for at least two festival performances in 2008. Hooray!
The first goes down May 16 at Dunfermline, Scotland's Carnegie Hall as part of
Tigerfest. A bona fide Scottish lovefest, this gig will find the Vaselines sharing the bill with Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake and the Pearlfishers' David Scott, all while backed by members of Belle & Sebastian!
And hey, the second appearance ain't too shabby either. The Vaselines will help celebrate the
20th anniversary of Nirvana's onetime label home
Sub Pop at Redmond, Washington's Marymoor Park on July 12. Sub Pop also, of course, helped keep the Vaselines on the map by releasing
The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History back in 1992. You scratch my back, I'll rock yours.
Already rife with reunions from the Fluid, Green River, Seaweed, Red Red Meat, and now the Vaselines, Sub Pop's SP20 bash has turned up the nostalgia a couple more notches with the addition of defunct French punks
Les Thugs and
reunion-
happy Canadian alt-rockers
Eric's Trip. As previously reported, the fest takes over the aforementioned park near Seattle from July 12-13.