Melissa Auf Der Maur Unsure About Hole Reunion

• 24th Jun 2009

As previously reported, Courtney Love was recently reported as saying that Hole would be reforming, kind of. Only one other former member of the band, Melissa Auf der Maur, would be involved, contributing backing vocals for the recording, as well as returning as bassist when the group went out on tour.

But now Auf der Maur has said that she knows nothing about it. She told reporters in Toronto, where she was oin town for the North By Northeast music festival: “I actually don't know [about the reunion]. I have no idea. I arrived at North By Northeast and I heard that Hole were getting back together from people sending me links”.

She added: “I am very proud of my time in Hole, I'm very grateful for my 'big sister' Courtney and the initial door that she opened for me in music and I have literally no comment, other than she and I have been in touch for the first time in a decade, and I know she's in the studio and I'm excited to hear what she makes. Whether it's Hole or Courtney, that's up to her to decide, I don't know. I'd say that it's all very new news”.

She went on to say that she wouldn't consider it to be genuine Hole reunion without the presence of band co-founder Eric Erlandson – “There's no Hole without Eric”, she's quoted as saying – and, asked whether she's up for reforming or not, responded with this: “Oh, I don't know. For me, I'm more curious about the legacy of Hole. I'm sort of dying for a best-of Hole. Objectively, as a woman musician, as a fan of the first two records that I wasn't even a part of, I think that every girl in the world needs a best-of Hole. I'm interested in making sure that gets tied up in a very classy way, because I think there's a lot to offer young women now and for the future, and that's the only thing I know”.