Venue: Reading Festival
Location: Reading, England
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
CL: Hi. Look at my eye – someone beat me up. Can you tell that someone beat me up?
Courtney puts on her guitar.
CL: This is Melissa’s first year anniversary in our band.
Audience cheers.
CL: And she’s got a fucking needle hanging out of her neck.
Courtney flips off someone in the audience.
-PLUMP
CL: Levi, turn up my guitar a little bit please.
-MISS WORLD
Melissa and Courtney talk, then Courtney walks back to the mic.
CL: If you make it past that guy, I’ll give you a blowjob.
Courtney smokes a cigarette.
CL: What are you saying? Show us your what? What? What do you want me to do? Can someone interpret that into an…a language that, uh, is 200 years old?
Guy in Crowd: Shut your fucking cakehole!
CL: We’re not Gaelic. Well, we’re…we’re Gaelic, I guess.
CL: This is about chicken shit motherfuckers.
-GUTLESS
-THE ROSE/CRIPPLE DANCE
CL: All the celebrities are right there. (She points at the sides of the stage). Should I, like, pour beer on them? You kids paid 30 bucks and all the celebrities got in for free.
-ASKING FOR IT
Courtney picks up a doll and throws it into the audience.
Melissa says something to Eric and makes a gesture with her hand.
Courtney picks up two bottles of water and walks up to the mic.
CL: Hey, you – guy in the blue shirt, blue shirt guy, security guy. Hey. Give them water. Water. Just give them some water. Hand out the fucking water now – you, YOU. You, you, you, you, you…that guy, that guy, Manchester United.
Courtney tosses a bottle of water into the audience.
-SUGAR COMA
Eric comes over to Courtney and they talk. Melissa also says something.
-PENNYROYAL TEA
During the song, Melissa says something to Eric, then she crosses her arms over her chest and stands behind Courtney. She walks back to her mic stand with a camera, then she goes back to where she was standing before.
CL: (During song) Eric, Eric.
After the song ends, Courtney points to the sky.
CL: Up.
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
During the song, Courtney lies down on her back on stage and kicks her legs in the air.
-WHOSE PORNO YOU BURN (BLACK)
Melissa says something inaudible.
CL: Mom, am I pretty? Well, honey, you have a lot of character. But Mom, am I pretty? Mom, am I pretty? Honey, character is what counts.
CL: I hate to piss you off, but Blur’s never gonna make it in America, I’m sorry.
Melissa laughs.
Audience screams.
CL: No, no, you guys do the Trainspotting thing and we go down by the river and shoot Bud cans, ok? It’s just…it’s not gonna happen. I’m sorry to tell you.
Guy in Crowd: Bullshit!
CL: And since I’m the one that gets picked on all the time, I figured I should be the one.
Guy in Crowd: What about Oasis?
CL: It’s gonna be Elastica. Sorry.
Audience cheers.
CL: Yes! Why don’t…yes, Elastica. Fuck yes! If I don’t hear loud respect for Elastica, I’m walking off stage now.
Audience cheers.
CL: And also, um, um, me and Justine shared this – if you’re a girl and you get a guitar, get a Mustang, ’cause then you can like rub it. But guys get Les Pauls so they can come behind their guitar straps, but, like, if you get a Mustang, you can like… Oh, shut up (Laughs). Get guitars, like Fluffy and, like, you know, rub it.
CL: This song is about getting in a lot of trouble, ok?
-BEST SUNDAY DRESS
CL: Babies and Drown Soda. I don’t think it’s that rocking of a crowd, let’s do…we have 20 minutes. Can we do all four in 20 minutes?
Melissa says something.
CL: How long is that one song? It’s so good.
Melissa says something to her and holds up her hands.
Eric plays the riff to Gary Numan’s Cars.
CL: How many minutes? Just a second. It would take 15 minutes to do all this?
Guy in Crowd: Play some music. You silly girl.
Melissa says something. Courtney puts her hands on her hips.
CL: It’s a good song.
MADM: But there’s a time limit. Just do Babies.
CL: What? For Billy Pumpkin?
Melissa puts her hands to her head in a frustrated gesture.
Patty drums.
CL: Oh, is that your Jimmy Chamberlain imitation? Will you do that again?
Patty and Eric jam.
CL: I think I learned a thing or two. Oh, stop it.
Guy in Crowd: Get off of it.
CL: Green Day is next, you know. They’re great.
CL: Alright, I’m the whore, she’s the virgin. The virgin knows. She’s the fucking Pisces.
-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE
CL: Frances Bean is three…she turned three the other day. She looks just like her Daddy…and she could stare down this whole fucking crowd, you’d all shut up. She hates me.
CL: Alright, here’s the song about a jerk.
Audience: ??
CL: I love you too.
Eric comes over and says something to her.
CL: We’re gonna do Doll Parts? Yeah, I guess we should.
CL: I love you too, but, um, you’ve gotta love me more than you love Billy Pumpkin, ’cause we’re having a contest.
Melissa stands with her arms crossed over her chest. She looks a bit frustrated.
CL: Ok, ??, I’m gonna do my Billy imitation. What did they say? Is that a football chant?
Melissa laughs.
CL: Ok this is what you do, you go like this, it’s a heart see. (Courtney puts her hands together, forming a heart). Heart. Heart. Some people on this festival don’t have them.
-DOLL PARTS
During the song, Courtney stops singing a few times, letting the audience sing the next lyrics.
CL: FUCKER!
CL: (To the guitar tech) It’s not America, they’re not into the other one.
CL: No, we can’t. We only have time for one more.
Eric walks over to her.
CL: I love Everett True.
Melissa and Eric are both talking.
CL: No, we’ll get cut off.
-VIOLET
During the song, Courtney kneels down on the stage, pulling the mic down with her.
CL: (Singing) Go on take everything.
CL: Oh, I forgot, you already did.
-JUST DO IT
Courtney throws down her guitar and knocks over her mic stand. She goes over and starts trashing Patty’s drum kit, with Patty’s help.