The Vaselines were a rock band from Bellshill, Scotland. Formed in 1986, the band was originally made up of only Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, but later added James Seenan and Charlie Kelly on bass and drums respectively. McKee had formerly been a member of The Pretty Flowers with Duglas T. Stewart, Norman Blake and Sean Dickson. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain once described Kelly and McKee as his "most favourite songwriters in the whole world". The band formed in 1986, and released two short EPs, "Son of a Gun", which featured a reworking of Divine's "You Think You're a Man" on its B-side, and "Dying for It", which featured the songs 'Molly's Lips' and 'Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam', both of which Nirvana would later cover. In 1989 they released their only album, Dum Dum, on 53rd and 3rd Records. The band broke up shortly after its release. They briefly reformed in 1990 to open for Nirvana when they played in Edinburgh. Though they were

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