Venue: Stubb’s Bar-B-Q
Location: Austin, TX
Band Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Micko Larkin (Guitar), Invisible Dave (Guitar), Shawn Dailey (Bass), and Stuart Fisher (Drums).
NOTE: This is a partial transcript, pieced together from videos. A complete recording hasn’t surfaced.
Margaret Cho: Give it up for Hole!
Audience cheers.
The band comes on stage. Courtney takes off her jacket and puts on a guitar.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
-SKINNY LITTLE BITCH
-MISS WORLD
CL: Thank you.
-NOBODY’S DAUGHTER
CL: We’re Hole.
Audience cheers.
CL: I didn’t say a big hole, I didn’t say a little hole. I didn’t say a rosebud, I didn’t say a big, flapping vagina, I just said Hole.
Audience cheers.
-VIOLET
Courtney breathes hard into the mic.
CL: I totally just came.
(CUT)
CL: (Singing) Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song.
CL: I wanna get on that bus with Bret, drive off into the sunset, me and Bret. Ohh, ?? Ohh, I’m the one for you, I’m the one for you. Not Daisy – it’s me, Bret (grabbing her breasts).
Audience screams.
CL: I’ll make that fucker get plugs so fast!
CL: Now shut the fuck up. Get serious.
Courtney takes the headpiece out of her hair and puts it aside.
-LETTER TO GOD
(CUT)
CL: (Gesturing to Invisible Dave, the 3rd guitar player) He’s the fifth Beatle. He’s John, this is Shadow, my shitty guitar player – and he does a grand job!
Audience cheers.
CL: He’s actually not here.
Audience laughs.
Courtney gestures to Stuart.
CL: That there is Stuart Fisher, he’s lived with me for five fucking years, how do you think he feels?
Audience cheers.
CL: And he’s been a joy, except he went and had a baby just to get away from me. No!
Courtney gestures to Micko.
CL: This here is my love coach, life coach, and the biggest fuck-up I’ve ever met, Mr. Micko Larkin.
Micko steps forward and gestures for the audience to bring it.
CL: And we are Hole, whether you like it or not, you little suck shits.
Courtney puts on a guitar.
CL: (To Micko) No offense, sweetie, generally I take my picks to the stand. It’s just a little…yo, baby, baby, I’m embarrassed at you…hey, I take my picks and the other thing is…
Courtney picks up a pick.
Guy in Crowd: Listen to her!
CL: This pick. I’ve grown out of these. I do the orange ones now. Just do one, little one. Don’t be too embarrassed ??
CL: Remember I wrote Malibu? Remember that song Malibu? That’s not what this is. This is side 2.
-PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY
CL: I like that song. It reminds me of sex. Like, you know, fucked up…hate sex, like, you know, where you punch…you know that stuff, right? You guys don’t know what I’m talking about?
Guy in Crowd: I do!
CL: When you…when you fuck someone and then you punch them right in the middle of it. Fucking hate you! Yeah, that’s so good, oh baby, baby, fuck you! (Punching gesture) Micko, you know that shit. Shawn, you really know that shit. You kick. (She kicks her leg out). Cunt. I’m like the punching ??
(CUT)
NOTE: Recordings of the next two songs haven’t surfaced.
-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
-HONEY
CL: This is one of those rehab songs you write when you’re kicking dope and you’re all fucked up and you’re all clammy and you’re all goose-bumped – and we’re playing it, right? We are playing it.
Micko says something to Courtney.
CL: We have one more song? Then we’re not playing it.
Courtney gestures for the audience to cheer loud.
CL: Yo, make that go away. I’m in the mood.
Audience cheers.
CL: Make that shit stop. I was gonna bring it. I’m not bringing it now if we have one more song.
Guy in Crowd: Bring it! BRING IT!
CL: Who do they talk to? Who do they talk to? That guy. That lady. Seriously, I’ll play one more song if you want. You want your audience happy, that’s fine. Yeah, that’s what we’ll do, but the point is…the lady with the sunglasses is like, ‘One more song.’ Hey, you know what, so what, we’ll play a really good song. It’s called Samantha. Fuck you.
-SAMANTHA
CL: Trent Reznor, 1995. Stick that up your ass.
CL: I’d stage dive, but I’m far too elderly.
Courtney flips off the audience with both hands and takes a bow. Micko comes over and she puts her hand over his mouth and leans into him. They walk off stage.