Venue: O’Neill Center
Location: Danbury, CT
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Samantha Maloney (Drums).
CL: Hi there.
Audience screams.
-CELEBRITY SKIN
CL: Ok.
-AWFUL
CL: Thank you.
CL: What?
Audience screams.
CL: Do you remember us?
Audience screams.
CL: We’re fucking old…some fucking old grunge band.
CL: Where did my bass player go?
Girl in Crowd: I’m right here!
CL: Um, Melissa do you have a phone call? What…
CL: Hi. I’m doing an experiment – I’m not gonna talk a lot. Let’s see if it works. No, I wanna try and be mysterious. Shut up.
-MISS WORLD
CL: Whaaat? Whaaat? I don’t have anything to say to you. Did you miss us?
Audience screams.
CL: Did you? Really? I wanna hear. Did you? Not even. Posers. Did you? Did you miss us? Did you miss Melissa in particular?
Audience screams.
-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
CL: Hold on, Eric. I have to have a cigarette. You have to wait, I have to have a cigarette. Wait, now I have to take off these shoes. Don’t start. ‘Cause they fucking hurt! I don’t know how I played in high heels before…maybe I was taking more drugs or something.
CL: Oh wait, you want these? No way, they cost money. They’re too expensive.
MADM: So this is our first real show in a really long time. Thank you, thank you having us, Connecticut. We’re so happy and desperate to be back here with you.
CL: Ok, that’s better.
Guy in Crowd: Courtney!
CL: What? Hi.
-DYING
Girl in Crowd: Courtney! Courtney!
MADM: You’re not gonna make her jump. She’s not gonna jump anymore, ’cause it’s illegal. Sorry, kids.
CL: No, I’m just checking you out. You guys are real cynical. I see you over there, to the right – ??, crew cut, black sweater. Hi, fuck you. That’s you. He’s so cynical. Motherfucker. Go back home and listen to Pussy Galore. I’m totally talking to you, you know who you are. It’s this one guy who doesn’t believe I’m talking to him. Right there – crew cut, black sweater (Laughs).
Girl in Crowd: Courtney, you’re great!
CL: Oh yeah. No, no, let’s not do that now.
-USE ONCE & DESTROY
CL: Yeah, we’re doing it.
Girl in Crowd: Courtney!
MADM: Now something a little bit sunnier for the sunny day of today.
CL: (To Eric) Ok, just play it. I said I wouldn’t talk, so you can’t wank off. I’m doing really good at not talking tonight. I mean, I’ll do…I’ll do a stand up routine after the show ?? So just play it!
-MALIBU
CL: So, um, that was our Bon Jovi outro and that girl just sat up and showed me her tits! It works like ?? It’s an ironic Bon Jovi outro, you don’t have to show me your tits. It’s ok, put ’em back.
Guy in Crowd: Show me yours!
CL: Huh.
-IT’S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE
CL: We wrote that.
CL: Whaaat?
Audience screams.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-HEAVEN TONIGHT
CL: He’s got a sign that says he loves you. There!
Guy in Crowd: I love you!
CL: Yay!
MADM: ?? I’ve never had that before. Thank you very much.
CL: I didn’t think that was schizophrenic at all. That felt really fun, to do…
CL: Oh, I can’t fucking hear you. Do you even deserve another one?
Audience screams.
CL: You deserve another one for living through my leather pants phase. It will be over soon. I just had to have one.
CL: Thank you.
MADM: This is a very old song, but it’s from our new record, but we wrote it the first week that I joined this band.
MADM: Yes, thank you, it’s smart.
CL: I’m not gonna talk. It feels so good, I feel so powerful right now.
-BOYS ON THE RADIO
CL: Thank you. Goodnight, thanks.
Guy in Crowd: Get your ass back up there! Goddamit!
Audience screams.
Guy in Crowd #1: COURTNEY! YEAH! YEAH! Get back up there!
Guy in Crowd #2: Oh my gosh, can it come any closer without actually being nudist?
CL: I thought you thought the leather pants thing would be really cool and you guys made me realize it’s stupid. I…I…I’m sorry, I was trying to be Trent, still, after all these years. I’m gonna stop now, now I feel stupid about my leather pants – but every girl, there’s like one time has to do a leather pant…but I’m sorry, just forgive me for the leather pants, it won’t happen again, but I might change my fucking mind. Alright.
-NORTHERN STAR
CL: That’s Samantha Maloney playing drums.
Audience cheers.
CL: And her boyfriend Billy is here.
CL: What does your sign say, sir? That is so ESPN, ok. Thank you. Whaaat? They just want to say my name.
-DOLL PARTS
CL: Thank you.
CL: I can’t stage dive anymore, stop trying to get me to – and you know what, take your fucking flannel off! It’s 1998, good fucking God! It’s ok, I’m not trying to make fun of you, I mean, I’m wearing leather pants, but still. No, I’m…
-VIOLET
CL: Hand it over.
CL: It was so unbelievable that years later now you like it. Oh my God. No, no, no, I can’t leave this stage until I’ve played some pop. Yeah, I can’t fucking leave after the grunge, no fucking way. You know what we’re gonna do. Go on. What is it? What do you want in your fucking Nirvana shirt? What do you want? You wanna give me a Swatch? But, what am I…you think I’m gonna wear it? I hate to be a bitch, but I’m not. You want me to take your Swatch? You’re wearing a flannel and a Nirvana shirt, dude. Get down with some, I don’t know, Lauryn Hill, some Manson. I’m not gonna take your Swatch, ’cause it’ll just be a waste of a good Swatch.
MADM: What are we doing though? What are we doing here – are we finished?
CL: I’m still in my Evan…let’s do Evan still. Our Evan thing.
MADM: This is dedicated to a boy that we both kissed and he’s real handsome.
CL: Yeah. Ok.
-INTO YOUR ARMS
MADM: ?? Connecticut. Connecticut, goodnight.
CL: Thank you very, very much. Goodnight.
Girl in Crowd: Melissa! Eric!