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• Melissa Auf der Maur calls Hole an "intense" experience - MusicRadar.com

  Melissa Auf der Maur calls Hole an "intense" experience MusicRadar.com Most people know bassist Melissa Auf der Maur from her stints in the bands Hole and Smashing Pumpkins. But that's likely to change with the release of OOOM ...

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  Melissa Auf der Maur Premieres New Video For "Out of Our Minds"; New Solo ... HotIndieNews.com Melissa Auf der Maur has premiered the first music video from her current multimedia project of the same name, ?Out of Our Minds?, which you can watch HERE. ...

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  Melissa Auf der Maur 'Disappointed' by Courtney Love's Hole Revival Spinner Courtney Love's recent reformation of Hole with three new members has left the band's former bass player, Melissa Auf der Maur, surprised and confused. ... Melissa Auf Der Maur's Video: Out of Our MindsBeatCrave.com GLENN DANZIG Featured On MELISSA AUF DER MAUR's OUT OF OUR MINDS Solo Project ...Blabbermouth.net all 5 news articles »

• Melissa Auf der Maur Confirms Solo Album Details, Debuts Short Film - Sentimentalist Magazine

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  'She was never shy about saying what others only think' Montreal Gazette Many of the people attending were from the music industry, including Luc Plamandon, Emmylou Harris and Melissa Auf der Maur. "I am very close with both her ... Hundreds say farewell to Kate McGarrigleExaminer.com all 178 news articles »

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  Melissa Auf der Maur Premiers New Video; New Album Due Out in March The Silver Tongue (blog) Ex-Hole bassist, Melissa Auf der Maur has unleashed the first music video for ?Out of Our Minds? off her upcoming album by the same name. ...

• Courtney Love Stands Firm On Use of Hole Name - Spinner

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  Courtney Love Stands Firm On Use of Hole Name Spinner ... the new Hole features none of the members from the bands 90s golden era, provoking the ire of former members Eric Erlandson and Melissa Auf Der Maur, ... Courtney Love unveils all-new Hole line-upSan Francisco Chronicle (blog) Courtney Love's to tour Europe with reformed band HoleBritain News Courtney Love settles Hole disputeSan Francisco Chronicle (blog) all 41 news articles »

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Melissa Auf der Maur
Auf der Maur in 2005
Background information
Also known as	MAdM
Born	March 17, 1972 (1972-03-17) (age 37) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres	Alternative rock
Occupations	Musician, photographer
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards
Labels	Capitol
Associated acts	The Smashing Pumpkins Hole Hand of Doom The Chelsea
Website	www.aufdermaur.com

Melissa Auf der Maur (pronounced /ˈɔːf dər ˈmaʊr/; born March 17, 1972) is a Canadian rock musician of Swiss-German ancestry from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her career has included 5 years as bassist with the band Hole and she later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour. She is also a published photographer.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Musical career 2.1 Hole 2.2 Other collaborations 2.3 Hand of Doom and The Chelsea 2.4 Auf der Maur 2.5 2006-2007 2.6 Second album 3 Photography 4 Discography 5 Singles 6 Notes 7 See also 8 External links

Early life

Auf der Maur was born to journalist and politician Nick Auf der Maur and literary translator Linda Gaboriau. Because Nick Auf der Maur was Canadian and Linda Gaboriau was born in the U.S., Melissa holds dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship. Contrary to recent comments claiming Auf der Maur's surname refers to a Swiss river, it translates to 'On the Wall'. This is because 'Maur' was derived from the German/Swiss word for 'wall', 'Mauer', and it is not a direct translation. Melissa is adamant about 'On the Wall', as her grandmother, Theresia Schaelin-Auf der Maur, was "always pounding my heritage down my throat"¹, and was very proud of the name, which is on the brink of extinction.

Her native language is English, though she also speaks French. She spent some of her early childhood in Kenya with her mother, but after several bouts with malaria returned to Montreal, where she attended F.A.C.E. School, a performing arts high school, and then Concordia University as a photography major.

Musical career

Hole

Auf der Maur became friends with Billy Corgan after apologizing for a friend who had thrown a beer bottle at the band during one of The Smashing Pumpkins' first Canadian concert dates at Montreal nightclub Foufounes Électriques.² Her band, Tinker, opened for The Smashing Pumpkins in Montreal in 1993. In 1994, when Hole was in need of a new bassist following the death of Kristen Pfaff, Corgan recommended Auf der Maur to Courtney Love. Auf der Maur initially turned the job down, but later reconsidered. She joined Hole two weeks before the Reading Festival, and recorded the album Celebrity Skin with the band, ultimately leaving on October 20, 1999, after her 5-year contract with the band had come to an end.

In June 2009, Courtney Love announced through an NME blog that Hole were reforming, with Auf der Maur on bass, and Micko Larkin, who is Love's lead guitarist on her upcoming album. It came as a surprise to Auf der Maur, who responded by saying she felt that "You can't take a Hole reunion thing that lightly. It's gonna take a little more organizing than just 'I'll come and sing some backups and then we got Hole'". ³ Eric Erlandson also responded to the rumors, saying that, "There is no Hole without me [...] on a business level." Erlandson claimed, "[Love] signed a contract with me when we decided to break up the band" which will prevent Love from using the name for a band that he won't be a part of. ⁴

Other collaborations

Auf der Maur briefly toured with former The Cars frontman Ric Ocasek in 1997, after contributing bass and background vocals to his 1997 solo album Troublizing. More notably, Auf der Maur collaborated with French group Indochine on their song "Le Grand Secret", singing a duet in French with Nicola Sirkis, to great acclaim in France. Auf der Maur joined the band on stage to perform the song on various occasions, and appeared in the music video for the song. She performed a rare, short, acoustic set of some of her solo songs during an Indochine show in Paris, February 22, 2002.⁵ She has contributed bass and backing vocals to childhood friend Rufus Wainwright's albums Scar and Poses, and appears in his 1998 video for "April Fools". In 2008, she collaborated with Canadian musician Daniel Victor, on his music collaboration project Neverending White Lights. They recorded the song "The World is Darker", for which a video was released in March 2008. Aside from this, she has contributed to albums by artists such as Ryan Adams, Ben Lee, Idaho, The Stills and Fountains of Wayne.⁶

Hand of Doom and The Chelsea

In 2002, Auf der Maur fronted a Black Sabbath cover band called Hand of Doom, in which she performed lead vocals⁷. They played a number of shows, and released a live album. In the same year, she and drummer Samantha Maloney (another Hole alumna and also formerly of Mötley Crüe, and Peaches), Paz Lenchantin (of A Perfect Circle, and Zwan), and Radio Sloan (of Peaches, The Need) got together to play a show in Los Angeles, California as The Chelsea, taking their name from the Chelsea Hotel in New York, where Auf der Maur lived for a number of years. They performed original songs and some covers. Courtney Love later adopted the band as her backing band while touring for her first solo album, America's Sweetheart. Only Samantha Maloney and Radio Sloan remained of the original line-up, and the band was later renamed to The Courtney Love Band.

Auf der Maur

In 2004, Melissa released her first solo effort Auf der Maur, garnering airplay on modern rock radio stations for the singles "Followed the Waves", "Real a Lie" and "Taste You".^{citation needed} The same year, she appeared on the CBC television program The Greatest Canadian, as David Suzuki's celebrity advocate. Auf der Maur was part of the November 2004 'Love Metal tour' also featuring HIM and 2004's Curiosa. She was also the opening act for Matthew Good's Put Out Your Lights Tour in 2004, as well as for The Offspring's Splinter tour in 2004.

2006-2007

On February 2, 2006, MTV.com reported that Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin had signed a new management deal with Front Line Management, with a spokesperson confirming they had signed under the name "Smashing Pumpkins."⁸ In response, Auf der Maur said in a separate interview, "As long as Billy has Jimmy, he can make the essential Pumpkins record, I'm sure". When asked of her involvement, she said she was not participating in any reunion plans, but was quoted as saying, "My services are always there to play my favorite songs. If D'arcy is not available, I'm always happy to be second in line".⁹ Despite her public interest, on April 23, 2007, The Globe and Mail reported that Auf Der Maur would not be rejoining the Smashing Pumpkins.¹⁰

In 2006, Auf der Maur was included in Blender magazine's hottest women of rock alongside Joan Jett, Liz Phair, and Courtney Love.¹¹

In 2007, she appeared on the Fountains of Wayne album Traffic and Weather singing backing on the track "Someone to Love".

Second album

In a 2007 interview,¹² Auf der Maur announced that she had finished her second solo album which would go hand in hand with a graphic novel and a concept film¹³, which is to be released in Fall 2009. The album will be released under the name of MAdM, whereas the comic, film and album will go by Out of Our Minds, or OOOM for short. A website containing teasers of the projects, as well as a movie trailer, was launched in August, 2007 and can be found at xMAdMx.com. Glenn Danzig recorded a duet with Auf der Maur in 2008, titled "Father's Grave".¹⁴¹⁵ On November 11, 2008 an EP¹⁶ for the song "This Would Be Paradise" was released on on the official website and iTunes.¹⁷ It includes the songs "The Key" and "Willing Enabler". On November 9, 2009 Auf der Maur released the first single "Out Of Our Minds" from her new album for download for free on her website. On January 12, 2010 the "Out Of Our Minds" music video premiered on her website.¹⁸

Photography

Auf der Maur is also an experienced photographer. She was a photography major specializing in self-portraiture at Concordia University when she was invited to join Hole in 1994. Her photos have been published in Nylon, Bust, Mastermind, and American Photo, among other magazines. Her photos were also in the exhibition The Kids are Alright at Sotheby's in New York City along with photos by Yelena Yemchuk. She put together a solo exhibition in 2001, under the name of Channels. It mostly featured shots of Auf der Maur's life on the road, with a recurring TV theme and shots of hotel TV screens, hence the name Channels. The exhibition opened September 9, 2001, at Brooklyn's Secret Gallery, but was shut down after the September 11 attacks.¹⁹ A book bearing the same name was set to appear, but never did.

Discography

Year	Album	Chart positions		Additional information
		U.S.	UK
1997	Troublizing	-	-	with Ric Ocasek
1998	Celebrity Skin	8	11	with Hole
2000	Judas Ø	-	134	with The Smashing Pumpkins, bass on track 12 only
2001	Poses	117	132	with Rufus Wainwright, bass and backing vocals on track 11 only
2002	Paradize	-	-	with Indochine, vocals and bass on track 8 ("Le Grand Secret") only
2004	Auf der Maur	187	31	Solo debut
2007	Traffic and Weather	97	-	with Fountains of Wayne, backing vocals on track 1, "Someone to Love", only
2007	Act 2: The Blood and the Life Eternal	-	-	with Neverending White Lights, vocals on track 4, "The World Is Darker", only
2010	Out Of Our Minds	TBC	TBC	Second solo album

Singles

Year	Song	Chart positions				Additional Information
		Modern Rock Tracks	Mainstream Rock Tracks	UK	Hot 100
1996	"Gold Dust Woman"	31	-	-	-	with Hole
1998	"Celebrity Skin"	1	4	19	85
1998	"Malibu"	3	16	22	81
1999	"Awful"	13	-	42	-
2004	"Followed the Waves"	32	-	35	531	solo
2004	"Real a Lie"	-	-	33	-
2004	"Taste You"	-	-	51	-
2007	"Someone to Love"	-	-	-	-	with Fountains of Wayne
2008	"This Would Be Paradise"	-	-	-	-	solo
2009	"OOOM"	-	-	-	-	solo
2010	"Out Of Our Minds"	-	-	-	-	solo

• ¹ indicates the song charted on the Hot 100 Sales Chart.

Notes

• Errico, Mike (December 2006). "Hottest Women of Rock". Blender Magazine Online. http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2295&src=blender_ed. Retrieved 2007-02-09. 
• Jones, Rob (April 2004). "Auf der Maur, Mean Fiddler, 13 April 2004". opentomusic.com. http://www.opentomusic.co.uk/2004/04/14/auf-der-maur-mean-fiddler-london-13-april-2004/. 

See also

• List of Quebec musicians
• Music of Quebec
• Culture of Quebec
• List of bands from Canada
• List of Canadian musicians

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Melissa Auf der Maur

• Official website
  • Official Melissa Auf der Maur Archive
  • Melissa Auf der Maur's personal blog
• Melissa Auf der Maur at the Internet Movie Database
• Melissa Auf der Maur's advocation for David Suzuki as CBC's "Greatest Canadian"

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NAME	Maur, Melissa Auf der
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	Musician
DATE OF BIRTH	1972-03-17
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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