Some more fruits of our late May visit to Barcelona's Primavera Sound fest, where WFMU set up camp (like, in a tent and all) for three sunkissed days and breezy Mediterranean nights. We've got archives of 20 of the sets we recorded and aired, and some of the artists were even generous enough to allow downloads via WFMU and the Free Music Archive sites. One of these groups, Scotland's legendary Vaselines, put in one of the most fun sets of the entire weekend, definitely with some of the best stage banter to boot. For the uninitiated, the group existed from 1986-1990 fronted by Francis McKee and Eugene Kelly (the latter going on to form Eugenius and Captain America) and had a big booster via the Northwestern USA underground axis of K/Sub Pop records (Sub Pop put out an anthology of the Vaselines on the tail of some major Kurt Cobain fandom, in fact Nirvana covered three Vaselines tunes). They reunited in 2006, toured the USA in 2009 and finished their recent tour at this Barcelona show. We unfortunately didn't get the first tune of the set, but dig in to the MP3's below, and if you like, check out some pics of the Fest from WFMU's Flickr group. (Photo left: BT)
The Vaselines - Live on WFMU at Primavera, 5/28/09
Monsterpussy (MP3)
The Day I Was a Horse (MP3)
Molly's Lips (MP3)
Oliver Twisted (MP3)
Jesus Don't Want Me For a Sunbeam (MP3)
Lovecraft (MP3)
Slushy (MP3)
No Hope (MP3)
Sex Sux (MP3)
Dying For It (MP3)
Rory Rides Me Raw (MP3)
You Think You're a Man (Divine cover) (MP3)
Dum-Dum (MP3)
So, so glad they're making a comeback.
Posted by: M Munro | June 20, 2009 at 08:40 AM