Venue: Shrine Auditorium (KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas)
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Samantha Maloney (Drums).
Announcer: Everybody having a good time tonight?
Audience screams.
Announcer: I’m very lucky to introduce my favorite band – Hole!
Audience screams.
CL: Hi there. Um, we have to wait for this thing to come on in my ear…
MADM: Oh, oh, ho, ho, ho.
CL: But I can’t hear, so it doesn’t matter. Can you hear now? Ok, now I can hear. Hi! Not…put it back on. I swear to God. Ok, now it’s on. You guys, like, can you fix it?
CL: So, last time I was here, I was at the Oscars (Laughs). I know, you’re twelve…go.
-AWFUL
CL: Well, I’m gonna come (Censored) He wants me to talk less, but thanks for trying. Someday I’ll…I’ll sing the Titanic theme and we’re gonna be really polished.
Guy in Crowd: Courtney!
-MISS WORLD
CL: So, all my paparazzi children right here, you guys have to leave now. Goodbye.
CL: Hey guys, did you miss us?
Audience screams.
CL: I can’t hear you!
Audience screams louder.
CL: Fine. I missed you too. Melissa, did you miss them?
Guy in Crowd: Courtney!
MADM: Absolutely. I wrote this song. It’s about having sex on Christmas Eve.
CL: This next one’s about sex on Christmas Eve. Go.
-USE ONCE & DESTROY
CL: You guys want some light rock? We’ll just, you know, we’ll leave and you can have some light rock. Would that be easy for you? Would you like some light rock? Would you like some light rock on the KROQ or would you like some real rock?
Audience cheers.
CL: Oh no, I’m not hearing a response. I will put on some ska band right now. I’ll leave, come on.
Audience screams.
CL: Thank you (Laughs). Wait, wait, wait, I’ve gotta get rid of my guitar. Hey, guys.
CL: Ok.
-DYING
CL: You guys in the front row – are you, like, music executive’s children? (Censored) Jaded, asshole children, up front – get the fuck out of there. Whose daughter are you? No, you’re cool, ok. Where was she? Where’s that…oh that one. Whose daughter (Censored) let somebody who wants to stand there stand there. Oh wait, no, ok, I’m sorry, you’re waiting for…you’re waiting for someone with a cock. I’m sorry, I’ll leave you alone. God, L.A. is so funny. All the privileged white people in the front. All the rich children in the front. Oh my God, so after this, because of boring child like this, we’re gonna play at The Roxy on Sunset Boulevard and we’re gonna play for hours, so if you want to come, you can come – and now we have another guitar player. I picked him up on Hollywood Boulevard. I thought he was really cute, so I let him play.
Edward Norton comes on stage to play guitar on the next song.
CL: Can we have a cheer for this guy? (Laughs). REALLY LOUD OR WE’RE NOT PLAYING DAMMIT! You better clap, ’cause I’ll kick you out of here. Thank you, good girl.
-MALIBU
MADM: Thank you, Mr. Norton.
CL: Thanks. What? Oh, I want my guitar back now. I just wanted to make out with him.
Guy in Crowd: Come on!
CL: What is it? I didn’t mean to embarrass you. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to be mean. Kind of I did, but…
Guy in Crowd: You’re not sorry!
CL: What?
-DOLL PARTS
CL: Thank you.
CL: You know, we’re where the Academy Awards are, just relax. We could do the Titanic theme right now, like, just chill. Have a good time. It’s your hometown. I don’t care about this show, in a way. It’s a good thing. It’s good, ’cause it’s rock – we don’t care.
-CELEBRITY SKIN
CL: Thank you.
CL: This is a song called Northern Star.
-NORTHERN STAR
CL: Um, I’ve gotta know what he was doing stage diving on that song? Of all songs (Laughs).
CL: Are we done? So should we just do one more?
MADM: We’ve got one more for the ?? audience that you are.
CL: Next year, they should have it back at the Universal Amphitheater, don’t you think? This is so sucky. It’s totally not your guys’s fault. it just, like, I feel like I’m at the Academy Awards…not. Ok, one more time, could we let the program director know that we should have it at the Universal Amphitheater next year, please?
Audience screams.
CL: Let me run your station, Kevin!
CL: Our last song, then you can come see us at The Roxy if you can get in when we play there.
-VIOLET
MADM: Come to The Roxy, The Roxy, The Roxy, on Sunset Strip. The Roxy.
CL: If a guy gets that guitar, I’ll come out and kill you. Only a girl can have it. Just give it to that girl behind you.