Is that incongruous with revisiting the Vaselines?
EK: I still like loud music. It was a song about somebody growing up and trying to move on from the past and have a domestic lifestyle. It wasn’t about someone who doesn’t like loud music. It was just about change and moving forward. Do you feel at all like the Vaselines have overshadowed what you’ve done since then? EK: I think so. You can’t escape that. Even when Frances and I were doing solo stuff, people would still be asking about the Vaselines. That’s the way it will always be because Nirvana really highlighted us. If we never play Vaselines again and only do solo stuff, we’ll still be talking about the Vaselines for the rest of our lives, or at least as long as we play music. But that’s fine, I don’t have a problem with that. I think people might have discovered the band through Nirvana, but I think they hold the band pretty dear because of what you did do too. EK: I think most fans that will see us now will be people that heard us through Nirvana. But that’s great—that’s w
