Venue: Metropolis
Location: Perth, Australia
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Samantha Maloney (Drums).
CL: It’s another bar, Melissa. Hi.
Audience screams.
CL: I’m sorry you guys had to wait, my yoga teacher was smoking crack and I had to um…
-AWFUL
CL: Huh. This is probably the last club show we’ll play ’til the end of our career.
Audience screams.
CL: So I really hope you enjoy it.
CL: Because you know what, Melissa? It’s arenas from now on, goddammit! This is it, this is our last show at a club. ??
MADM: We’re playing to the most isolated city in the whole world so ??
CL: Do you know that you made more money today than I’m gonna make tonight? I just want you to know that. You…I swear to God. Minimum Australian wage is more than I’m gonna make tonight. It’s our last club show. You have to buy me a drink. And then it’s back to Hollywood.
-MISS WORLD
CL: Yo.
-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
CL: Thank you. ?? well, it’s my last club show.
CL: What? You love me? You don’t even know me – I’m a bitch!
Audience screams.
Guy in Crowd: We love you!
CL: Dorky boy’s got his Kurt shirt on – you’re so fucking cool. ?? You want some attention, you just got it. Dorky boy, oh my gosh. I’m so drunk, I don’t even know what that means. Alright, will you wear this little tiara if you’re gonna wear the little Kurt shirt?
CL: See, now you have a Kurt shirt and a tiara, I’m alright with you now. You can stay. Fucking idiot. What a fucking idiot. Jesus Christ. Fucking Kurt shirt. Jesus Christ. Get over it. He did.
CL: HA!
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-HEAVEN TONIGHT
CL: Hey, you guys. Hi.
Audience screams.
CL: What’s it like to live here? Is it fun? Australians are so fucking good looking, by the dozen. I don’t get close ?? you baby. Melissa, why aren’t there any boys at our show? If you’re a boy, will you raise your hand? I just want to see. We gotta do something. Is that ’cause guys only go to see guys ’cause they’re f*gs? You guys are really ?? Why don’t guys come to see us? Only girls. I love girls, but why don’t guys? Are you…is it ’cause you feel emasculated? ?? Is that what it is? Could you take me on? (Laughs) ??
-DYING
The song stops.
CL: Don’t be mean to that guy or I’m gonna stop playing! If I see…STOP! Stop playing. Don’t be mean to that guy!
Audience screams.
CL: ?? Let him climb down normal, ok? Stop manhandling him or I’m gonna fucking walk out of here. I’m drunk, I don’t have anything to lose. Fuck you! ?? Sweetie, c’mere on stage, c’mere. C’mere, baby.
Guy in Crowd: Way to go, man!
Audience screams.
CL: Ok, you guys, I’m not…it’s my fault. I didn’t know how drunk he was. I thought he was just a nice punker. That was American wrestling.
MADM: Do not try this at home.
CL: ?? Did you see how drunk he was? Should we do that song over or do you guys want to just wrestle? ?? be nice to him ?? fucking drunk. ??
Eric riffs.
CL: I’ll kill you, stop it.
CL: Start it over, whatever. The show goes on.
She starts the song, changing the lyrics to “I swear he stunk.”
-DYING
CL: Your mic is so low. ‘Cause you’re short? You just be the singer. I’ll play bass and you be the singer, please.
MADM: This next song is about the love affair we both had with Axl Rose.
CL: This is a song is about the love affair Melissa had with Sean Penn…and, um, this actually song is actually about the love affair that Samantha had with, um, Tommy Lee.
Audience screams.
CL: Really, really, it’s about the love affair that Eric Erlandson had with Marilyn Manson.
Audience screams.
CL: ??
Opening chords to Malibu.
CL: And your Mom likes it too!
-MALIBU
Girl in Crowd: We love you!
CL: ?? Um, this is our last show in a month – we don’t…I can’t…we were gonna play Olympia and then I forgot the chords and I know it’s only two. We can try it. You wanna let’s try?
-OLYMPIA
At the end of the song, Courtney changes the lyrics to “Well, I went to school in fucking Perth.”
CL: Do you guys want to hear some really good gossip?
Audience screams.
CL: I’m totally gonna tell you, like, just like you’re like my friend and we’re having coffee. So, um, you know Adam from The Beastie Boys? Do you know who his girlfriend is?
Audience screams.
CL: Kathleen from Bikini Kill. Is that a scream? And then, like, the whole thing is they have, like, a 3 million dollar apartment in New York and she still puts out her, like, Julie Ruin records, but she runs up, like, huge credit card bills. I’m so into that gossip. I thought I’d share, with those of you that understand.
Audience screams.
CL: We love that gossip. We just heard it. Fucking…whatever…I don’t care. Like, if they’d have been nice to me in high school, I could totally ?? gossip, You know what Melissa, it’s our last show – I don’t have to be fucking restrained, ok! ??
MADM: ??
CL: She told me the gossip anyway. She knew it was gonna go somewhere. How lame is that? And remember when The Beastie Boys told the Prodigy to not play Smack My Bitch Up? Kathleen was making Adam…like she’s got him by the balls.
Audience screams.
MADM: This is an Australian song. It’s not ours though, but…
CL: This is about that somebody that both me, Melissa and I guess Kathleen had sex with.
-INTO YOUR ARMS
CL: An Australian wrote that song.
CL: This is her song about fucking.
-USE ONCE & DESTROY
CL: Hi. (Laughs) We…we’re gonna still have hangovers on the plane. I’m sorry, are we drunk and not being professional? Is it bad? Ok, we’ll just be professional. I’m sorry. We’ll get the tapes in the background. Are you liking this or not?
Audience screams.
CL: I’ve been professional all fucking…for the three weeks. I’m not professional tonight. Fuck you.
Girl in Crowd: And everybody here has paid 40 bucks to see her.
CL: Do you want to hear that? Eric has a hard time with that song…but, you know what, you got your request. Shut up. And you know what…you know what’s your misfortune? The guy with the Kurt shirt is right behind you, so I can’t even look over there (Laughs). Fucking drunk.
-DOLL PARTS
-BLESS ME FATHER
CL: I don’t know what that was. It was about Melissa.
MADM: This is a song about endless summer nights that we hope you can have here in Australia all the time.
CL: We can’t do this shit in arenas, so thank you (Laughs). Thank you. That’s my arena thank you. Thank you. ?? That’s my club thanks, but my arena thanks is thank you! It’s retarded. We’re gonna have fun being a big rock band, ok, so just shut up and wish us well. I can’t concentrate ??
Girl in Crowd: Yay, Courtney!
-BOYS ON THE RADIO
CL: Oh Christ, are you gonna make me play this, Eric?
Guy in Crowd: Violet!
CL: Just a second.
Guy in Crowd: Violet!
MADM: Did you guys even notice that I’m dressed like a superhero and I’m trying to save the day? Did you even know that?
MADM: ??
CL: Give her a cheer. She’s trying to save the world.
Audience cheers.
CL: Fucking…that’s such a pussy cheer. I want to hear a big one.
Audience cheers louder.
CL: You know, Melissa, you can just get this for yourself. I want Melissa to say fuck on stage one time. I will give her a thousand dollars, that I didn’t make tonight, just…get…say fuck. On three, let’s all say fuck. Let’s do it. One, two, three…
Audience: FUCK!
CL: See, that wasn’t big…it’s a naughty word. Are you getting…
Guy in Crowd: She said it!
CL: Just say it one time. It’s our last night.
MADM: No. The official thing is I say it on a casual day basis and I do fuck actually, but I don’t just say fuck to say fuck.
CL: (Laughs) Shut up when we’re drunk and telling jokes no one can hear.
-VIOLET
CL: Thanks.
CL: Wait, let’s just play the hit and we’ll do it really bad.
CL: Hi girls. How come Australian girls want to be rock stars and American girls want to be groupies? That is so weird. Maybe I have an Australian soul.
Girl in Crowd: YOU ROCK!
CL: What…Eric, what is that? Just play the fucking…
Girl in Crowd: COURTNEY, YOU ROCK!
-CELEBRITY SKIN