Canadian bass player, Melissa joined Courtney Love's band Hole - her first show in front of 60,000 people being a big step up from the small Montreal bars she was used to! After touring'Celebrity Skin', she quit Hole to join Smashing Pumpkins, while also starting a solo career.
"New London duo 2.54 have been getting attention for their song"Creeping". It's a delicious dash of moody shoegaze, with guitar lines that churn, roll and distort in a nice counterpoint to a hushed vocal. File between The XX and The Big Pink. The pair are unsigned and beyond the aforementioned track on MySpace, there's no further output. Likewise, there are only thin scraps of information about the band: "all noise", as they call it, is made by sisters Hannah and Colette Thurlow, who seem to share a penchant for leather biker jackets. If more efforts like"Creeping" follow, I imagine we'll be finding out plenty more about them soon enough. " The Independent