Venue: Rockstore
Location: Montpellier, France
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
Another artist’s music is playing.
CL: Bonjour.
Audience screams.
-CINNAMON GIRL (TEASE)
-PLUMP
CL: Merci.
CL: (Fake French accent) Melissa Auf der Maur.
Audience cheers.
CL: No, no, no, louder. Melissa Auf der Maur.
Audience cheers louder.
CL: Melissa.
Audience cheers.
MADM: Merci. Merci.
CL: Say something in French. She’s French.
MADM: On veut que ça soit très très fort. (Translation: We want it to be very, very loud).
Audience screams.
-BEAUTIFUL SON
Courtney pants heavily into the mic.
-MISS WORLD
-DROWN SODA
CL: What?
-JENNIFER’S BODY
-TAKE AWAY JAM
CL: I have to smoke. It’s this problem I have. Excuse me.
Audience screams.
CL: But you have really good cigarettes, the Gitanes…
-ASKING FOR IT
CL: We what…what? What do you want? Melissa. It’s that damn skirt.
Guy in Crowd: We want Melissa!
CL: You’ve got Melissa. The virgin, the whore, the little tits, the big tits – you know, you got it all. You got Patty.
Audience cheers.
CL: And you got this guy – we don’t know him. We don’t…we don’t know him.
Eric is playing with his drum machine.
Eric plays the tune of the Twilight Zone’s theme song.
CL: It’s some fucker. If you do that drum machine again…Eric, Eric, Eric, ERIC! If you do that drum machine again tonight, I fucking will break it, I swear to God.
Eric continues to play with his drum machine.
CL: You want to hear some techno? We’ll do techno. How do you do techno?
Guy in Crowd: You don’t want a ?? man!
The audience goes, “Ooooh.”
CL: What? What did he say?
Guy in Crowd: ??
CL: I’m not jumping. You’re cute. Melissa – look at him, he’s really cute.
MADM: ??
CL: He’s not too macho, he’s not…you’re really cute.
CL: ??
-GUTLESS
-IMPROV (THE ONLY DISEASE THAT I KNOW)
CL: Au revoir, cute guy.
CL: French boys are cute. Spanish boys all look like Eddie Vedder – they have that puffy face. I think French boys are cute.
Guy in Crowd: Thank you!
CL: My grandmother was from Lorraine – does that count? It makes me kind of French, right?
Guy in Crowd: Melissa!
CL: No, she’s French Canadian.
CL: So, this is my de Gaulle gown, see.
Guy in Crowd: You are the French ??
CL: Who are the French fuckers?
CL: What was that song by that little boy? ‘Me no baby, it’s so hard to be a baby.’
Guy in Crowd: You’re a sexy bitch! I love it!
CL: I know I’m a bitch. Duh. Alright, on three, I want you to say bitch really loud. One, two, three – bitch!
Audience: Bitch!
CL: Now do you feel better?
-SOFTER, SOFTEST
CL: You want it?
Audience screams.
CL: You want it bad? You gonna beg?
-JUST DO IT (BLACK DAY)
CL: We made that up.
Guy in Crowd: Babydoll!
Guy in Crowd: Teenage Whore!
CL: But I’m not a Teenage Whore anymore, I’m an old whore. (Singing) When I was a 40 year whore.
CL: Yeah, I just turned 40. Can’t you tell?
Guy in Crowd: Olympian!
CL: Well, if it was a Birkenstock, I’d get mad. Ooh.
CL: Eric, c’mere…
Guy in Crowd: Olympian!
Guy in Crowd: I want to fist fuck you!
Girl in Crowd: Good Sister/Bad Sister!
CL: You want to what? What?
Guy in Crowd: Fist fuck!
CL: He wants to fist fuck me? Nuh uh. I’m too small. What do you want?
Girl in Crowd: Good Sister/Bad Sister!
Guy in Crowd: You!
CL: I have that coat – the white furry one. I have the same one. What?
Girl in Crowd: Good Sister!
CL: You look like Steve Albini, what do you want?
Guy in Crowd: You!
CL: I can’t hear you, shut up. What? What is he saying?
Girl in Crowd: Good Sister/Bad Sister!
Guy in Crowd: We want you!
Guy in Crowd: Music!
CL: Oh, she’s smart, thank you very much.
-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE
-IMPROV
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-BEST SUNDAY DRESS
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
CL: What?
Girl in Crowd: Good Sister!
CL: I’ve gotta get my cigarettes.
-DOLL PARTS
CL: Goodnight! Thank you very much.