Melissa Auf der Maur at One Ninety Four

Melissa Auf der Maur in Conversation

One Ninety Four, 10 April 2026

Ever since it was announced that Melissa Auf der Maur, who I first became familiar with when she joined Hole in the mid 90s, had written a memoir, I was super excited. So I couldn't pass up the opportunity to hear her read from her book, Even The Good Girls Will Cry, and hear her thoughts on her fascinating life in music, for this talk held as an outstore event for Rough Trade.

Hole at Shepherd's Bush Empire

Hole
Foxy Shazam
Little Fish
Shepherd's Bush Empire, 17 February 2010

I remember when I first saw Hole many years ago it the same week I also saw Neil Young for the first time (life-changing) and had just seen two Pearl Jam shows at Brixton Academy back to back (joyous). Hole, playing the slightly dingy Clapham Grand, were a world away from those shows: kind of disorganised, kind of ramshackle and definitely punk rock.