Melissa Auf der Maur: Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir
Melissa Auf der Maur + Pascalle Burton
Augathella Spiegeltent
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
7:30pm, Thursday 4th March 2027
Augathella Spiegeltent, Brisbane Powerhouse
119 Lamington St, New Farm
In the early 1990s, the golden age of grunge, a young musician from Montreal named Melissa Auf der Maur was asked to join Hole as the band’s new bassist. She turned the offer down. But Courtney Love, who was grieving the recent deaths of Kurt Cobain and former Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff, wouldn’t take no for answer – so Melissa boarded a plane to Seattle and changed the course of her life.
Melissa’s riveting and intimate new memoir, Even the Good Girls Will Cry, charts her wild trip through the sounds and stories of ’90s alternative rock, from her years with Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins to her solo career. Join this living legend in conversation with poet and musician Pascalle Burton for a deep dive into the glory, angst and fever dreams of the last analogue decade.
#Artists
Melissa Auf der Maur
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.
Pascalle Burton
Pascalle Burton is an experimental poet and performer based in Magandjin, Australia. Her collection About the Author is Dead (2018) is available through Cordite Books. Jeet Thayil and Pascalle co-edited the international anthology For Gaza: Art Against Genocide (HarperCollins India, 2026). She also plays in the band The Stress of Leisure.
