Belly was a rock band formed in 1991 by former Throwing Muses members Tanya Donelly (who was also in The Breeders with Kim Deal) and Fred Abong. The band was based in Boston, Massachusetts, though all the original members grew up in Newport, Rhode Island. The band consisted of Donelly on lead vocals and guitar, Abong on bass guitar, Tom Gorman on guitar, and Chris Gorman on drums. Tom and Chris, who were brothers, were childhood friends of Donell...
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Belly was a rock band formed in 1991 by former Throwing Muses members Tanya Donelly (who was also in The Breeders with Kim Deal) and Fred Abong. The band was based in Boston, Massachusetts, though all the original members grew up in Newport, Rhode Island. The band consisted of Donelly on lead vocals and guitar, Abong on bass guitar, Tom Gorman on guitar, and Chris Gorman on drums. Tom and Chris, who were brothers, were childhood friends of Donelly's; they had previously played in the hardcore punk band Verbal Assault.
Donelly named the band "Belly" because she thought the word was "both pretty and ugly". Their EP Slow Dust (1992), made number one on the British indie chart. Soon after, their single "Feed the Tree" made the top 40 in the British chart and their first album, Star (1993), got good reviews from newspapers and rock magazines, and hit number two on the British chart.
In the United States, the album was RIAA Certified Gold, largely based on the success of "Feed the Tree" on...
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