THE ANNOUNCEMENT
Melissa Auf der Maur hasn't played a solo show since before her last album, 2010's Out Of Our Minds, and she's coming back not with a club run but with two art-space gigs built around her own museum exhibition *, ‡. The music is 30 years old: seven 4-track demos she cut in her living room in the '90s, self-mixed, untouched apart from mastering *. "These sounds are the quiet and private side of the girl who joined the big American major label rock band," she said *.
THE DETAILS
- January 15 at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, free with general gallery admission *, †
- January 17 at Le Gesù in Montreal, tickets sold separately †
- Both shows feature projections pulled from her personal video and photo archives *
- Bass Womb Room: My '90s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings hits vinyl December 4 via Envision Records, after a September digital and cassette release †, ‡
- Seven unheard '90s demos plus eight new interludes co-produced with Alex Crow *, †
- Her exhibition My '90s Rock Photographs runs at the AGO through June 6 †
SUPPORT
Alex Crow and Betsy Wright of Ex Hex back her at both dates, with Jessica Moss of Thee Silver Mt. Zion guesting in Montreal *.
WHY IT MATTERS
COMEBACK: the Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist walked away from the industry for 15 years, and this is the door cracking open again *, ‡. Most reunion announcements chase arenas, this one puts you in a gallery for the price of admission.