Venue: Melkweg
Location: Amsterdam, Holland
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Kristen Pfaff (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
CL: I’m sucking on a lozenge. Hey Dutch man, you just stand there. You’re all stoned on the ass. Morbid curiosity brought you here tonight. I’m so glad.
(Inaudible).
Man: Solo album.
CL: All Kristen…Kristen’s solo album
KP: What?
CL: Your solo album.
CL: That’s Kristen, she’s our new bass player. Fox. Stone fox. Pat Schemel, ?? drummer.
Guy in Crowd: Rock ‘n Roll!
-LOST HER INNOCENCE INTRO
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
CL: Thanks.
– PLUMP
CL: Dutch guys, you’re so un-stoned tonight. I’m really impressed. I know one Dutch word – schlampig. We’d like to thank Beffuzz for…Beesfuz, they’re really good, for opening up for us. Befffuz, they’re good, very good. Now this is fucking pretty, right?
-MISS WORLD
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-GARBADGE MAN
CL: Where’s my lozenge? My voice…Kristen, do you see my lozenge?
CL: (Calling to someone) Can you get a lozenge for me, please?
Guy in Crowd: ??
CL: What? What? Come on up and say that to my face. Schlampig. Oh, show us your tits? Nah, nah, you don’t want to see them.
Guy in Crowd: Show it all!
-BEAUTIFUL SON
CL: I have to suck on this lozenge. My voice is going.
Guy in Crowd: Ohhhh.
Guy in Crowd: We know the songs.
Guy in Crowd: Oh, let me have your lozenge!
CL: You know, my Grandma’s Dutch. I’m related to you guys.
CL: Here’s another suck-ass pussy song, as Steve Albini would say.
-SOFTER, SOFTEST
CL: Thanks.
CL: Our sound guy, Levi, used to work for Belly.
Courtney starts to sing Belly’s Feed the Tree, then Kristen joins her and they sing part of it together.
KP: (Still singing) You have such a pretty voice.
CL: I wish I had a pretty voice like that. We can’t do harmony…we have the same register. It’s called smoking and drinking.
-TEENAGE WHORE
CL: Thank you.
CL: ?? a little lozenge.
CL: I only know the word schlampig and ??
KP: You wanna go now?
CL: No. You know what, relax. Everyone’s on hash. They’re all on hash, just have a cigarette. Go to the gynecologist.
Guy in Crowd: It’s called adrenaline!
CL: Oh, you got adrenaline?! What about endorphins?!
KP: Really get some.
CL: This is my sell-out…this is my sell-out ?? rock song.
Guy in Crowd: Shut up and play!
CL: No, man, I don’t want to shut up. (Laughs) Can you try to shut me up?
CL: Now shh, shh, this is a song about Leonard Cohen, so check it out.
Guy in Crowd: Play a song.
CL: Shh, shh, stop. I’m not playing anymore rock. Let’s cover an L7…
Guy in Crowd: Ok, cool, everybody be quiet!
CL: This is spoken word.
Guy in Crowd: Everybody be quiet!
CL: We’re gonna do a Fugazi song now. Schlampig, schlampig, schlampig, schlampig, schlampig…ok, shut up now.
She starts to sing the song.
CL: Ok, fuck you, it gets good. Shut up.
Guy in Crowd: Hey, be quiet!
She resumes the song.
-PENNYROYAL TEA
CL: I have like two songs left, Eric. We can’t maybe do the punk rock ones…or Belgium will have to have an instrumental show tomorrow.
Guy in Crowd: Oh, that’s so cool. No, no, no…
Guy in Crowd: Now play the rest of it. Ok.
CL: Cool is not what I’ve ever been called.
CL: (To Kristen) Do Violet?
KP: Yeah.
CL: Billy Pumpkin thinks this song is about him – but it’s not. He’s an idiot.
-VIOLET
CL: Thank you.
CL: This is a song by a band called The Raincoats.
CL: I only know schlampig. I don’t know anything else.
-THE VOID
CL: She Walks…wait, I won’t be able to sing it.
KP: Which one?
CL: My voice is over.
Guy in Crowd: Shut up!
CL: ?? I know girls aren’t supposed to shut up, but this song is so ??
Guy in Crowd: Shut the fuck up!
Guy in Crowd: Over the Edge! Rock ‘n Roll! Over the Edge!
CL: I forgot how to play that. That was cool.
-SHE WALKS ON ME
(Cut)
CL: Play it. Just try to have a good time, ok.
-OLD AGE
CL: You played that…you played that really well.
CL: Hey Kristen, is my makeup running?
KP: Yes, it is.
Guy in Crowd: We Got the Beat!
CL: Yeah, this is just like…it’s totally new wave.
KP: You have the ??
CL: You’re so…you’re so telepathic. This is the most new wave song I’ve ever written.
Guy in Crowd: Our Lips Are Sealed!
CL: This is my daughter. It’s her birthday. CHEER! It’s my daughter’s birthday – she’s a year old. (Note: Frances Bean’s birthday is August 18th).
Audience cheers.
CL: Frances Bean Cobain…Love-Cobain, sort of.
CL: Play this. All these fucking songs.
Guy in Crowd: Walk Like an Egyptian.
CL: It’s kind of like that. I’m sorry. It’s where we sell out. Not very well.
-GUTLESS
CL: Thank you.
(Fades out briefly)
CL: If we sing this and I sing this, I won’t have a voice for Belgium. We’ll play surf tunes. Someone tell me to shut up. I love it when guys tell me to shut up. I want girls to tell me to shut up.
Girl in Crowd: Courtney, shut up!
Guy in Crowd: Shut up!
CL: Schlampig.
Guy in Crowd: Stop smoking!
CL: Kristin Hersh doesn’t smoke from Belly, right Levi? That’s why she’s got that nice voice.
KP: No, that’s Tanya Donnelly.
CL: Oh, Tanya Donnelly, right. That’s why she’s got that pretty voice.
Guy in Crowd: Bratmobile!
CL: Bratmobile. (Laughs) Suck my dick. You know what, it’s funny, ’cause our last song is just about Bratmobile.
Guy in Crowd: Riot grrls!
CL: Diet girls. Don’t worry, we have a Riot Grrl song ??.. after this f*ggot song, as Steve Albini would say. Riot Grrl.
Guy in Crowd: What do you got against fags?
-DOLL PARTS
CL: This song is about Olympia and Vera Krantz.
Guy in Crowd: Take some shit!
KP: She means Groningen.
Guy in Crowd: Portland.
CL: Groningen.
KP: Groning whatever…Gronin-gin. Groning-gen.
CL: Vera Krantz.
KP: A hippie town.
-OLYMPIA
Courtney changes the opening lyric to “Well I went to school at Vera Krantz.”