Venue: Heineken Jammin’ Festival
Location: Imola, Italy
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Samantha Maloney (Drums).
-VIOLET
MADM: Oh, Italia. Uh, como is Italia? Pasta, sesso, musica. Right?
Audience screams.
CL: Hello. Hello, you little Italians and you big Italians.
-AWFUL
CL: What’s y’all saying? What’s that? Alright, I ain’t doing nothing ’til you sing me the Italian National Anthem. I want to fucking hear it. Shh. On three, you’re gonna sing the Italian National Anthem. One, two, ?? three.
The audience doesn’t respond. They don’t understand what she’s saying.
CL: Fine, you know what, you want Blur? ‘Cause I’ll give you Blur ?? up here, you can have some English boys. You can have yourself some sweet little English boys. I want to FUCKING HEAR THE ITALIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM RIGHT NOW! On three, or we leave. One, two, three…
Audience screams.
CL: Ok, guys, we’re gonna walk off stage until they sing the anthem.
MADM: No.
CL: Oh yes, we are.
MADM: Shh. Let’s sing, let’s sing in Italia.
CL: Melissa can interpret it for me.
MADM: I’m trying. Italia, song – what is it? (She sings a melody) La, la, la, la, la, la…Italian, your anthem.
CL: We’re leaving. I’m leaving ’til I hear the anthem. I don’t want to do this show anyway, so ?? fucking anthem.
A man comes on stage and speaks to the audience in Italian.
Courtney returns to the stage.
CL: Ok, I love you now. Thank you! Gracias! Gracias. Thank you very much. Ok, now we’ve gotta play our own song, ?? ok.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-HEAVEN TONIGHT
CL: ??
-MISS WORLD
CL: Hi!
-MALIBU
CL: We’re so happy to be here right now, right here living this life in Italy. Thank you for having us. We’re very grateful.
Opening chords to Dying.
CL: You like death rock. I’m gonna come and fuck you. Can I come fuck you? (Laughs)
-DYING
CL: You want a lot of attention from me, right? Wait, there’s like six guys out here going “Manson.” You can have Manson, he’s coming out, he’s getting…backstage, putting his little horns on and shit, but you’ve gotta sit through Blur first. They’re coming right after us, so you can scream Manson…well then, if you love us, go punch that guy behind you. (Laughs) We like them…don’t get mad…we don’t dislike them, if you think it’s making us mad, it’s so not. Dork. Ya fucking loser. Alright, you know what, there’s 6 of you and there’s 40,000 of them, shut up. I’m so immature, I’m sorry.
-DOLL PARTS
Courtney holds the mic out to the audience to finish the lyric, “Someday you will ache…”
CL: (During song) LOUDER!
She holds the mic out again.
CL: (During song) MORE!
After the song:
CL: You’ve got about 30 seconds to get that task done, please, for me.
CL: Watch this, this is really fun, I’m gonna be really fun doing this. Straight in front of you, Steven, just walk straight, Steven, right in front of you, you..you’re in the wrong place, a little to the left…that’s right. THROW HER OUT! Get her out. I’d throw her out or I’m gonna do it. You’re gone, baby. I’m the President and you’re the bitch.
-NORTHERN STAR
CL: Thank you.
CL: What? What’s wrong? What do you – are you ok? Alright, we’re gonna do one more song ?? Italian and I don’t know what you’re saying.
CL: You know, ?? a festival ?? play that song. Thank you for thinking though. Dude, that’s his lighter, give it to him, right there.
-CELEBRITY SKIN
CL: Viva Italia! Viva Italia! Who wants my fucking guitar? Oh, you want it, with your Marilyn Manson shirt? HA! ?? Come here. If you want this, come here. You are such a brat.
CL: Goodnight!