Venue: Enmore Theater
Location: Sydney, Australia
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Samantha Maloney (Drums).
CL: Hi there. It’s so nice to be in a small place. I hope my shirt stays on.
-VIOLET
CL: That’s Sammy Lee back there. Get up and take your bow, bitch.
Audience screams.
Samantha stands up, takes a bow, and blows the audience a kiss.
CL: She ain’t so bad. Hold on, I gotta light a cigarette. Hold on.
CL: ?? kick your ??
Samantha picks up a drum stick and makes a stabbing motion at Courtney.
CL: I’m sorry, you’re…you’re so fast, you’re such a good drummer. I forget, like…alright.
CL: Yo, go.
-AWFUL
-PALE BLUE EYES
Courtney gestures at the audience during the song to ramp it up. They scream louder.
CL: When I’m a really big rock star, I’m gonna have one person and their job is just gonna be to light me cigarettes (Laughs). Don’t fucking stand there, Melissa. Take off your clothes or something.
Courtney lights a cigarette. Melissa sticks out her tongue.
CL: The moon is in Pisces, Melissa. She’s feeling really evil. She won’t even…she won’t even talk.
Courtney picks up a plastic cup and drinks out of it.
CL: On three, can everybody please say Melissa? One, two, three…
Audience: MELISSA!
-MISS WORLD
CL: (To Melissa) That pussy. You really are a pussy. My old friend is a Gemini – this is a pussy.
-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
CL: So, um, security guy – right there. I want though…that…from that girl with the stripes to that girl right there on the stage. That first girl. I just like it when you guys come up.
CL: I’m gonna give you guys a lesson in capitalism and, uh, and stuff. Just come sit back here, chickies ??
Four girls are brought up on stage.
CL: None of them are gonna, like, do anything to me, they’re like ??
The girls sit in front of the amps behind Eric, next to Sam’s drum riser.
CL: Sit back further, sit back further.
The girls scoot back.
CL: This is a lesson in capitalism.
CL: You know, Eric, you could play something, like, pretty. Play something pretty ?? asshole. You have to let up four more and that’s it.
More girls are brought on stage. Courtney drinks from a plastic cup.
CL: And on the seventh day, God created commerce. Commerce and art always have an issue with each other.
Courtney looks at the girls on stage.
CL: Alright, that’s enough. Just calm down, calm down. Give me my guitar, please. Alright, scoot back and listen and learn. Back though, I don’t want to see you.
Audience screams.
CL: That’s good, now I’m trying to teach them and maybe one of them will, like….I’m so misunderstood.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
Courtney takes off her guitar and hands it to a crew member. She picks up a tambourine.
-HEAVEN TONIGHT
CL: Nihilism is so 90s. Happiness is millennial.
A crew member brings Courtney a new guitar.
CL: Eric, why are we fucking playing this song? Why are you such a punker? Why did you put this song down here? What did you take off – did you take off Drag?
Audience screams.
CL: Yeah, you did. Alright, you guys…you guys, this is a small show, so what do you…do you want a B side, Drag, which is me and Melissa’s song, or do you want an old ?? punk.
Audience screams.
CL: I mean, like, we were old. We played it for a fucking year. What’s that boo, boy? I was gonna do a PIL fucking jam, asshole. You can suck my dick. He’s the one bootlegging the show. I don’t want to play this fucking song! Alright, I will…watch, I’ll play it, watch. Alright, I’ll play this song, ’cause then it makes me mad.
-PLUMP
CL: Now I’m mad. I was happy – the other song made me happy and then Eric made me mad.
Opening chords to Dying.
CL: Ok, now we’ll get depressed.
Courtney takes off her guitar and a crew member takes it away.
-DYING
CL: Thank you very much, you guys. Thank you for giving us this nice, little show to play. It’s fun. By the way, I found these great underwear today – they’re Elle MacPherson.
Audience screams.
CL: Seriously, like, Australian underwear is always really good, but, like, the Elle line – I’ve gotta promo it. They make the hipster underwear. They’ll put that in the tabloids tomorrow, that quote. I’ll pay you 10 bucks if they don’t.
Courtney picks up a plastic cup.
CL: What do you want? You want something? What do you want?
Audience screams.
Courtney lowers the mic to the audience, then pulls it back.
CL: Don’t steal it ??
Courtney puts the mic down in the pit and lets fans scream things into it.
Girl in Crowd: Love you, Courtney Love!
Courtney pulls the mic back up.
CL: That was the ??
CL: Ok, where’s the fucking guy in the PIL shirt? Dude, PIL guy – you! PIL! Like, what are you doing here? (Laughs) You…you went to a lot of Lime Spiders shows, I know you did. I probably would have picked you out.
CL: Alright, let’s go.
-MALIBU
A crew member brings Courtney a guitar near the end of the song and she uses it to play the outro.
Melissa and Samantha have an inaudible conversation.
CL: Melissa, can you just exude a little more charisma tonight, please?
Melissa puts her arms over her face.
CL: You’re…you’re like vogueing. Just…just say ‘fuck’ again.
Melissa shakes her head.
CL: Try to get Melissa to say fuck. We did this the other night. I want you to, on three, just say fuck.
MADM: No, my answer is no.
CL: Melissa, Melissa…
MADM: I do fuck, but I don’t say fuck.
Eric walks over to Melissa and they put their arms around each other.
CL: If you say fuck, I swear to God…you can…I’ll trade jobs with you (Laughs).
Eric goes back to his place on stage.
CL: Please just say fuck anyway. Melissa, come on, I’m begging you. I’ll show my tits if you say fuck.
Audience screams.
CL: Please. While I still can show my tits, before they fall. Melissa, just say fuck, please. She won’t do it. She’ll say ‘make love.’
MADM: Talking about love, this song is about a lovely man…
CL: That we both dated! Yet another one.
MADM: But this song was written by an Australian, so I’m sure you’ll like it.
CL: I want you to date Twiggy, so we can have, like, five. I didn’t date him…
MADM: I don’t know if I’d want to date…
CL: Come here! There he is.
MADM: Ok.
Twiggy Ramirez comes on stage and walks over to Courtney.
CL: This is the most well hung person in rock, other than him (She points at Eric). They’re both huge. I swear to God they’re like (She laughs, making a gesture of ‘big’). That’s why we can’t go out. It’s too much. (To Twiggy) What do you want? You can’t…you can’t sing this, it’s a pop song.
Twiggy says something inaudible.
CL: What? It’s pop, it’s not up your alley. You can come read from the Bible, if you’d like. Come for the fucking punk rock, come on, you can’t do the pop. You don’t know how.
Twiggy says something inaudible to Courtney, then she gives him a light shove and he walks off stage.
CL: He can’t do pop, we’re gonna teach him. I’m gonna teach them capitalism and I’m gonna teach him pop. This is for sweet Evan.
-INTO YOUR ARMS
CL: ?? Isn’t pop music fun? It makes me happy! (Growling) Teenage Whore. (Normal Voice) That depresses me. (Singing) Into Your Arms…
CL: It makes me happy.
CL: It’s so 90s to be depressed all the time.
MADM: But it goes from pop to sexy.
CL: Melissa basically wrote this song.
-USE ONCE & DESTROY
CL: (To Eric) Did you do this setlist? ‘Cause it’s not the…nothing fun that I love. I mean, I like the…can we just do Drag, just ’cause I want to? You guys are, you know, you’re Australian, we can play a long time, right? Ok, fine, we won’t play a long time. Would you like us to play a long time?
Audience screams.
CL: Let’s just do it. If it’s a disaster, then we’ll know that we can’t play it live. Let’s just try it, why not?
-DRAG
CL: Thank you. I like that song. It’s fun.
Courtney takes a drink from a plastic cup.
CL: You guys look so sad. I don’t have any presents.
Courtney goes over to Sam’s drum riser and lights a cigarette.
CL: ?? Eric was about to play the same song and then he couldn’t pull it off. Only people ?? understand that. Shit.
-DOLL PARTS
CL: It’s never gonna happen, Eric, some things are just ??
-BOYS ON THE RADIO
CL: Now, take a breath, Sammy Lee. ?? No fucking way ??
MADM: This is a very old song and we’re covering it to teach you something.
CL: No, we’re not. We’re not gonna be teaching Australia anything. They invented garage rock. That’s why we’re doing it here.
MADM: ??
-IT’S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE
CL: Are you alright?
Audience screams.
CL: ?? Say fuck.
MADM: What a good looking crowd.
CL: Australians are kind of well bred ??
MADM: Very healthy.
CL: Do you see this one over here with the Faith No More shirt? You know that, right? Look at his teeth. Like a fox. Hi. Really cute, per capita, I have to say. A little jaded. A little fucking jaded. You know, I have to say, in, uh, Brisbane, I got my shirt off because you know why? They were so not jaded.
CL: We have to repair some damage now. Alright, Sammy Lee, I’m ready.
-CELEBRITY SKIN
CL: Thank you.
Audience screams.
(Encore break)
CL: Go back!
-HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY
CL: We never did that ?? but it was kind of fun, right?
-NORTHERN STAR
CL: Um, you guys, Eric just made a really bad mistake and he hasn’t done that in years. Can you cheer that he actually made a mistake? ?? you should be happy.
-PARADISE CITY
CL: I think that band would shit if they knew girls were covering them. Oh, well. Oh, is that actually, like, the legacy of Guns ‘N Roses, like that one really good song? I don’t know, we just go into it.
MADM: Almost over, the night is almost over. Thank you, Australia ??
CL: ??
-SHE WALKS ON ME
-BIGGEST SCAR
CL: The girl in the white dress – go with her backstage and give her my guitar. I chose you…and if you give it to a guy, I’ll fucking shave your fucking head!
MADM: Thank you. Goodnight. Goodnight. Thank you. We’re here tomorrow and the day after and the day after.