Frances McKee is a singer and songwriter known best for her work in the Scottish indie band The Vaselines. Following a post-Vaselines break, she began making music with Vaselines bass player James Seenan, writing material of a more mellow flavour. These songs were released under the name Suckle, initially coming out on 4AD offshoot Detox Artefacts. Against Nurture, the first and only Suckle long player, was released in 2000 on Chemikal Underground. On April 10, 2006, McKee released her first solo album, Sunny Moon. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, whose favorite band were the Vaselines, named his daughter, Frances Bean, after McKee.
Releases
- The Vaselines
- The Vaselines / Beat Happening (K Records - recorded live in London, June 16, 1988)
- Dum Dum (1989 Rough Trade)
- The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History (1992 Sub Pop)
- Painkillers
- Tropical Zodiac single (1994 Human Condition)
- Suckle
- Against Nurture album (2000 Chemikal Underground Records)
- Cybilla/Sex With Animals (Left Hand Recordings)
- Harmonal Secretions EP (Detox Artifacts, UK)
- The Sun Is God EP (2000 Chemikal Underground Records)
- To Be King EP (2000 Chemikal Underground Records)
- Solo
- Sunny Moon album (2006 Analogue Catalogue)
