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Biography

Melissa Auf der Maur (; born March 17, 1972) is a Canadians|Canadian rock musician from Montreal , Quebec , Canada. Her career has included five years as Bass guitar|bassist with the band Hole (band)|Hole and touring with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour. Her second solo album, Out of Our Minds , was released on March 30, 2010. She is also a published photographer .

Early life

Auf der Maur was born to journalism|journalist and politician Nick Auf der Maur and literary translator Linda Gaboriau . She is of Swiss Germans|German Swiss descent. Because Nick Auf der Maur was Canadian and Linda Gaboriau was born in the U.S., She holds dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship, as well as Swiss citizenship. Auf der Maur's surname translates as 'On the Wall', as 'maur' was derived from the German word for 'wall'. Auf der Maur says her grandmother, Theresia Schaelin-Auf der Maur, was "always pounding my heritage down my throat", 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 M.I.N.D. High School , a performing arts high school , and then Concordia University (Montreal)|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 Les Foufounes Électriques (which translates to "Electric Ass cheeks"). Her band, Tinker, opened for The Smashing Pumpkins in Montreal in 1993. In 1994, when Hole was in need of a new bassist after the death of Kristen Pfaff , Corgan recommended Auf der Maur to Courtney Love . Auf der Maur at first 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, Love announced through an NME blog that Hole was re-forming, 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'". Eric Erlandson also responded to the rumors, saying, "There is no Hole without me on a business level." Erlandson claimed, " signed a contract with me when we decided to break up the band" that he claimed would prevent Love from using the name for a band that he wouldn't be a part of.

On April 12, 2012, Auf der Maur reunited for a one-time gig with Hole (comprising the 90s lineup of herself, Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson and Patty Schemel) in New York during the promotion of Schemel's newly released documentary "Hit So Hard". Erlandson and Schemel performed with her initially until Love came to the stage for a spontaneous performance of "Miss World".

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 . She collaborated with French group Indochine (band)|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. She has contributed bass and backing vocals to childhood friend Rufus Wainwright 's album Poses (album)|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 (band)|Idaho , The Stills and Fountains of Wayne .

Hand of Doom and The Chelsea

In 2002, Auf der Maur fronted a Black Sabbath cover band called Hand of Doom (band)|Hand of Doom , in which she performed lead vocals. They played a number of shows, and released a live album. In the same year, she and drummer Samantha Maloney (another Hole alumnus and also formerly of Mötley Crüe , and Peaches (musician)|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 Hotel Chelsea|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 (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, Auf der Maur released her first solo effort Auf der Maur (album)|Auf der Maur , garnering airplay on modern rock radio stations for the singles "Followed the Waves," "Real a Lie" and "Taste You." The same year, she appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|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 (Finnish band)|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." 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". Despite her public interest, on April 23, 2007, The Globe and Mail reported that Auf Der Maur would not be rejoining the Smashing Pumpkins.

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

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

Out of Our Minds

In a 2007 interview, 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 film, 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.Villeneuve Nicole., Exclaim! ," April 2010. A website containing teasers of the projects, as well as a movie trailer, was launched in August, 2007 and can be found at .
Glenn Danzig recorded a duet with Auf der Maur in 2008, titled "Father's Grave." On November 11, 2008 an EP for the song " This Would Be Paradise " was released on the official Web site and iTunes. 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 Web site.

In March 2010, Auf der Maur announced that her new short film, "Out of Our Minds," would be screened in London on April 21. In July 2010, she was a part of the major two-day, heavy metal and hard rock festival Heavy MTL at Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal. On October 4, 2010, Auf der Maur premiered her music video "Meet Me On The Dark Side" online.

In January 2011, Auf der Maur won the Independent Music Awards in the Indie/Alt/Hard Rock category for Out of Our Minds . On October 19, 2011, she announced on her website that she was pregnant with her first child and expecting a girl sometime that week.

Photography

Auf der Maur is also an published photographer. She was a photography Academic major|major specializing in self-portraiture at Concordia University (Montreal)|Concordia University when she was invited to join Hole in 1994. Her photos have been published in Nylon (magazine)|Nylon , Bust (magazine)|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. A book bearing the same name was set to appear, but never did.

Discography

Year	Album	Chart positions		Additional information
Year	Album	U.S.	UK	Additional information
1997	Troublizing (Ric Ocasek album)	-	-	with Ric Ocasek
1998	Celebrity Skin	8	11	with Hole (band)
2000	Judas O	-	134	with The Smashing Pumpkins , bass on track 12 only
2001	Poses (album)	117	132	with Rufus Wainwright , bass and backing vocals on track 11 only
2002	Paradize	-	-	with Indochine (band)
2004	Auf der Maur (album)	187	31	Solo debut
2007	Traffic and Weather	97	-	with Fountains of Wayne , backing vocals on track 1, " Someone to Love (Fountains of Wayne song)
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
Year	Song	Modern Rock Tracks	Mainstream Rock Tracks	UK cite book	Hot 100	Additional information
1996	" Gold Dust Woman (Hole song)	31	-	-	-	with Hole (band)
1998	" Be A Man (Hole song)	31	-	-	-
1998	" Celebrity Skin (song)	1	4	19	85
1998	" Malibu (song)	3	16	22	81
1999	" Awful (song)	13	-	42	-
2004	" Followed the Waves "	32	-	35	53¹	solo
2004	" Real a Lie "	-	-	33	-
2004	" Taste You "	-	-	51	-
2007	" Someone to Love (Fountains of Wayne song)	-	-	-	-	with Fountains of Wayne
2008	" This Would Be Paradise "	-	-	-	-	solo
2009	" OOOM (EP)	-	-	-	-	solo
2010	"Out of Our Minds"	-	-	-	-	solo

¹ indicates the song charted on the Hot Singles Sales|Hot 100 Sales Chart .

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