Even the Good Girls Will Cry: Melissa Auf der Maur
About This Event
Former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur on her memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry — backstage in '90s alt-rock, friendship, fame and grief. Adelaide Writers' Week, Banquet Room, Mon 1 Mar 2027.
From the exhilarating heights of '90s alternative rock to the private reckoning behind the music, Melissa Auf der Maur has lived a life shaped by creativity and reinvention.
In her memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry, the former bassist for Hole and Smashing Pumpkins takes us backstage during an era of significant cultural change, reflecting on friendship, fame, grief and what it meant to be a young woman in a fiercely male-dominated world.
Candid, searching and alive with the energy of the music that defined a generation, Auf der Maur speaks in conversation about the book, the bands, and the long road from Montreal to the Hudson Valley.
Session:
Mon 1 Mar 2027 — 6:00 PM
Venue: Banquet Room, Adelaide Festival Centre
Presented by Adelaide Writers' Week, part of Adelaide Festival 2027.
