Venue: Molson Park
Location: Barrie, ON, Canada
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Samantha Maloney (Drums).
NOTE: This is a partial transcript. The webmaster of this site only has a recording that’s missing Northern Star and Celebrity Skin.
-OLD AGE INTRO
-VIOLET
CL: We are Helix. Do you believe me? Here is my penis. We are Helix.
Guy in Crowd: She probably has one.
-AWFUL
CL: Excuse me – (Gesturing at Melissa) Canadian content.
Audience screams.
CL: Proof that the Free Trade Agreement works!
MADM: I also brought you rain and rain and rain, all the way from California.
CL: ?? stops the rain, ’cause we came…but you know when I said we were Helix, what I really meant was that we’re Saga and, um, I’d like to prove that to you right now.
Guy in Crowd: Uh oh.
CL: And you…thank you for the Beanie Baby. This is the one I don’t have, so I really appreciate it. A Tie-dyed Beanie Baby – and thank you for the panties, that’s nice. Ok, here’s a fucking Saga song. Come on you guys, it’s Canadian content, right? I’ve got to play a Saga song, right.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-HEAVEN TONIGHT
MADM: We have 132 years of the best country on Earth. ??
Audience screams.
CL: Wow, you’re so much cuter than Germans, man. We just did a German festival and you guys are so pretty and nice. Ohh. Fine, if you don’t fucking believe me, um, play a show in New York, ok. I would like to tell you…I am a world renowned rock star, I’ve been all around the world, I see audiences every night – you are very, very attractive. Maybe it’s your water, but you’re just really cute.
Guy in Crowd: Yes, we are.
CL: Wanna hear a song?
-MISS WORLD
CL: Thank you. Did you like that? This is our little audience. This is our big audience, we make a little audience. Can…can any of you sing? Can any of you fucking sing? Come on, don’t be Canadian, be ambitious. ?? I’m calling you on the next one – only if you can sing, ’cause I’m kicking you off if you can’t. You can sing? ?? ?? Why don’t you wait until one you can sing. I’ll let you sing it though.
-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
CL: If you throw one more fucking bottle, child, I will leave, ok. That’s one more of these fucking bottles, you little shit, and I know you’re a male and you’re probably wearing a fucking Metallica T-shirt. I will leave. I will leave this place, I can find you and then guess what? I’ll beat you up, ok, ?? You little motherfucker, you’re probably this big, right?
-MALIBU
-DYING
CL: Oh, do you really want to do this? ?? Eric, come on, it’s late, they want something pretty, don’t do this, it’s annoying.
MADM: It took us four years…five years, almost, to come back to you and we excuse ourselves…
CL: ??
MADM: And it took my whole life to go across Canada with the Edgefest, it really did…and I thank you, oh Canada. I really mean it. I miss you.
CL: Alright, Melissa, can we play a song about fucking, please?
MADM: ??
CL: Ok. Melissa wrote a song. Canadian content. Can I have my guitar?
-USE ONCE & DESTROY
CL: Thank you.
Guy in Crowd: Take it off!
CL: You guys, I know it’s late, I know you waited a long time…and I know you’re having a really good time.
Audience screams.
CL: ?? Ok, I didn’t write this song, Geddy Lee did…and we’d like to dedicate this song to our producer, Michael Beinhorn, who is here tonight…and you know what he did? He held me over his lap and he spanked me, he’s the only man that ever did that ?? It felt pretty good, I’m used to spanking boys and he spanked me. It was cool.
-DOLL PARTS
CL: Ok, you have to give me your sweater. I’ll trade you back, trade me this, just let me borrow it.
MADM: Good Canadian girls…good, good, hearts, the Canadian girls – and boys.
Melissa sings the next song. The chorus is changed to “The summer of ’99.”
-SUMMER OF ’69
CL: Bryan Adams is fucking underrated…I know he’s really mainstream, but his songs are really good…and I’m the coolest person in America and I’m allowed to say that ??
-BOYS ON THE RADIO
CL: That was a bridge, Michael, it was. That was a bridge. ?? Oh, goodnight. Thank you very much.
(Encore break)
-NORTHERN STAR
-ROCK YOU
-CELEBRITY SKIN