Jennie Vee is a songwriter, guitarist and bassist from
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. She has played bass with
Courtney Love
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, supported
Echo and The Bunnymen and the
Manic Street Preachers
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and played with
Tamaryn.
Vee grew up listening to
Hole
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,
The Cure
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and
Jane's Addiction
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and taught herself guitar. She quit high school and relocated to
Southsea
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, England, where she recorded her first demo with her musical mentor Jim Shaw from the band
Cranes. She returned to Canada and formed a band, Tuuli, who released an EP on Sympathy for the Record Industry, an LP on Linus and her songs were featured on
Comedy Central
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and ''
Degrassi: The Next Generation''.
She released her solo EP ''Die Alone'' in 2014 and was subsequently discovered by Love who recruited her to play bass for the Endless Summer tour with
Lana Del Rey
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. Her first full-length album, ''Spying'', was released the following year.
She lives in Los Angeles, California and is a touring member of
Eagles of Death Metal
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. She has described herself as a "recovering goth", and she has cited
New Order's
Peter Hook as an influence on her playing, adding "I love adding a texture ... rather than sticking with the root note."
In 2021, she became the bassist for
Palaye Royale
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.
Discography
* ''Die Alone'' (EP) (2014)
* ''Spying'' (LP) (2015)
* ''Suffer'' (LP) (2017)
References
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Living people
Canadian women songwriters
Canadian rock bass guitarists
Eagles of Death Metal members
Musicians from Greater Sudbury
Women bass guitarists
1983 births