Venue: Fuji Festival
Location: Niigata, Japan
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Vocals), Lisa Leveridge (Guitar/Background Vocals), Radio Sloan (Guitar), Dvin Kirakosian (Bass/Background Vocals), and Samantha Maloney (Drums/Background Vocals).
CL: Leveridge, go!
Audience screams.
-INTRO/MONO
CL: (Deep voice) Rise!
CL: Ok, the…the shock thing is…Mike. I’m being shocked. I play guitar or I be shocked.
CL: Hello.
Audience screams.
CL: I’m Courtney.
Audience screams.
CL: (Sing song voice) They let me in, they let me in.
CL: (Deep voice) This is Lisa Leveridge!
Audience cheers.
CL: (Deep voice) That’s Dvin.
Audience cheers.
CL: (Deep voice) Radio.
Audience screams.
CL: Samantha Lee Maloney!
Audience cheers.
CL: And I’m just a girl.
-BUT JULIAN, I’M A LITTLE BIT OLDER THAN YOU
CL: (To Lisa) What would you like to do? Wakaranai. (Translation: I don’t know). (To Samantha) Ok. What? That one tires me out. I’m old.
CL: We’re gonna do, um, a song. You guys are so fucking quiet. We’re not doing anything until you make noise.
Audience screams.
Courtney throws a bottle of water into the crowd.
CL: Ok, do it. Go.
-I’LL DO ANYTHING
Courtney and Lisa link arms and stand at the mic together.
CL: (Deep voice) Rise, rise.
Audience screams.
CL: Hey, um, I’m sorry Brian, I have…I write a lot of lyrics. Can you keep them on there? It’s like 40 songs. What is the next one? What do we have? I know this song.
CL: Ok, this song is called All the Drugs in the…in Japan. It’s not about very much. Oh God, no one wants me to have my lyrics. Go.
Right after the song starts, a guy brings the lyrics over and puts them on a stand in front of Courtney.
-ALL THE DRUGS
LL: Want to do Reasons? ??
CL: What? Um. ?? Alright, give me a guitar…and can I not get shocked? Try and not shock me.
CL: You’re so quiet. It’s depressing. Make noise or something. Chiki, chiki, chiki, chiki, chiki. (Translation: acquaintance). WAKARANAI! (Translation: I don’t know!)
CL: Kinki show. (Translation: Forbidden show). Kinki show. Kinki show. Watashi (Translation: Me). (Laughs). Kinki show. (To Lisa) Why not say Kinki show?
LL: Kinki show.
CL: Kinky sex show, I think.
CL: Chiki, chiki, chiki.
LL: Radio ??
CL: ?? hai hai. (Translation: Yes).
-HOLD ON TO ME
CL: Hi. Alright, you wanna do Malibu? This is a song about the beach.
CL: What?
Courtney throws a bottle of water into the crowd.
-MALIBU
At the beginning of the song, Courtney sits on the edge of the stage. She climbs down, singing close to the audience, then a crew guy helps her back on stage.
CL: You guys are so quiet and still, it’s scaring me. You’re so polite. I need you to be a little rude. We’re just gonna be polite back or we’ll take all our clothes off and…rub shit on ourselves.
CL: Um, what do you want to do next? I’m not playing guitar today. It’s weird.
-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
CL: WHAT? WAKE THE FUCK UP! I didn’t come all the way here to fucking fall asleep. Fucking wake up now. On three – one, two, three – we’re gonna say fuck really loud. One, two, three – FUCK!
Audience: FUCK!
CL: Thank you. Ok, on…on three we’re gonna say rise and then we’re gonna say fall, ok? One, two, three – (Deep voice) RISE!
CL: Like you’re in Slayer. One, two, three – (Deep voice) RISE!
CL: Ok, one, two, three, FUCK!
CL: I’m so old, I wrote this song 30 years ago.
-VOICES CARRY
During the song, Courtney goes down to the audience to sing.
CL: (During song) Brian!
CL: ?? Should we do that again, ’cause it wasn’t very good?
LL: You wanna play Celebrity? The punk ran out?
CL: The punk ran out.
CL: You’re a gaijin (Translation: Non-Japanese person), we’re not here for you. We’re here for ?? everyone. What do you want to do?
Lisa raises her arm.
CL: Ok. You got your wish. Oh God.
-CELEBRITY SKIN
CL: Thank you.
The band walks off stage.
(Encore break)
(CUT)
Samantha takes Dvin’s mic and Lisa leans over her shoulder.
SM: Hello, Japan. I love you guys so much.
LL: ??
SM: Courtney’s not sure if you want to hear another song or not. Do you guys want to hear one more?
Audience screams.
SM: (Gesturing to CL off stage) Come on.
Courtney comes back out.
CL: My fucking brain is scrambled, I gotta see the lyrics, it’s fucking embarrassing. Dude, I’ll start singing fucking scat noises. Just go. I know this fucking song, I wrote it.
Opening chords to Awful.
CL: GIVE ME THE FUCKING LYRICS!
-AWFUL
LL: This song goes out to all of you.
CL: And my pot dealer. This song goes out to my pot dealer.
-OUTRO
CL: It was fun.
Courtney leaves the stage. Samantha throws her drumsticks into the crowd. She blows them a kiss and takes a bow.