05-08-1995 Le Bataclan

Date: 05-08-1995
Location: Paris, France
Venue: Le Bataclan


Setlist:
01- Plump
02- Beautiful Son
03- Miss World
04- Drown Soda
05- Asking For It
06- Gutless
07- Improv
08- Take Away Jam
09- She’s Lost Control *Joy Division cover
10- Softer, Softest
11- I Think That I Would Die
12- Best Sunday Dress
13- Cry Baby Cry (tease) *Beatles cover
14- Pretty On the Inside
15- Credit in the Straight World
16- Doll Parts
17- Violet
18- Sugar Coma
19- Pennyroyal Tea
20- He Hit Me (And it Felt Like a Kiss)
21- Drunk in Rio
22- Olympia/Touch the Sky/Frère Jacques/Improv (Don’t Fuck with Me)

Surfaced:
• PRIV-shot Video #1. 01:27:59. Audience shot. Poor sound quality. Cuts out after Pennyroyal Tea (for the encore break) and resumes at Drunk in RioHe Hit Me is missing.
• PRIV-shot Video #2. Clips appeared in the 2011 documentary Hit So Hard.
• Audio #1. Sourced from Video #1.
• Audio #2. 01:36:18. (Complete) Recorded at the 1st Row Balcony Left Side Mixing Desk, with a Sony PC-62 and a Sony WMD6-C.
📄 Transcript


Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).

Other Bands:

Notes:
• The show was originally scheduled for March 31st.
Olympia included the line “My sweet tooth has burned a hole,” which was used later in Hit So Hard.
• There were 500 people in the audience.
• After Olympia, Courtney knocked over Patty’s drum kit and and an amp. She poured water over herself, then slipped and fell on stage.

Memorabilia:

Show Reviews:

English Translation

Photos:

Photos 13-14: Unknown Photographers

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