Venue: Clapham Grand
Location: London, England
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Kristen Pfaff (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
Another band’s music is playing.
CL: Levi, turn on the um…let’s have the tape on. We’re gonna do an experimental…
A recording starts to play of Kathleen Hanna speaking.
KH: Um, you know sometimes you don’t want that kind of label of somebody just kind of throwing you away, just ’cause you’re like somebody else and a lot of people seem to do that these days where if they hear something about somebody and it’s something that they don’t like and it might not be particularly true, they just kind of um, throw somebody off because oh well, that person, somebody said this is like that, so I don’t really want to have to do with it, sort of like, um, somebody told you, if you like tacos and you didn’t like burritos and somebody told you, ‘Oh go try that, it’s kind of like a burrito.’
CL: I gained a lot of week…uh, weight over the weekend.
KH: It’s sort of like that kind of thing, sort of like that, but not really. Um, um, that’s the problem with the media attention that riot grrl has been getting, the…the…
-LOST HER INNOCENCE INTRO
Kathleen’s recording continues to play during the intro.
CL: Ok, Eric, you can go now.
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
CL: Now you won’t respect me in the morning.
Audience laughs.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: LESBIAN!
CL: Um, Kristen’s mother – that was a joke.
Audience laughs.
-PLUMP
CL: Thanks.
Girl in Crowd: Burn Black!
CL: I forgot how to play them.
Girl in Crowd: Oh no, please.
CL: Patty wants to play…maybe we’ll try.
CL: Oh, no one’s saying ‘Get your tits out’? You guys are cool. That is so cool. Kristen, did you hear that – it’s silence and no one said it?
KP: It’s amazing.
CL: Fucking, that’s great. Thank you very much.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
(Cut)
-GARBADGE MAN
Guy in Crowd: She’s funny.
Girl in Crowd: Yeah.
Guy in Crowd: She’s so informed.
CL: This is the most polite London audience…I bet I could stage dive. Kristen, do you want to stage dive? No tits, no ass. No, it’s easy – I used to do it and then this one time (Cut)
-MISS WORLD
CL: Levi, I want access to that tape – I want to be able to play it. Oh, is it not rewound? Do I have to press play or pause? Just, I want a little, slight…
-BEAUTIFUL SON
CL: Billy Pumpkin thinks this song is about him. Ha. In his fucking dreams. You don’t have to cheer or anything. No, I like Billy Pumpkin…it’s just that, it’s not about him.
–VIOLET
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Lesbian.
KP: What?
CL: It’s my new thing.
Opening chords to Do It Clean.
CL: Oh yeah.
-DO IT CLEAN
CL: You guys gotta admit that you all ?? Echo & the Bunnymen records – and so did me and Patty.
KP: ??
CL: Oh, you did? I thought you were a punker.
KP: I think I wore it out so fast.
CL: I even owned Ocean Rain.
KP: So do I – it’s my favorite.
CL: So does everyone here, but they won’t admit it anymore.
KP: Killing Moon, alright?!
CL: (Singing) There is a light and it never goes out.
Guy in Crowd: You’re so beautiful!
CL: Oh, Kristen. He’s talking about Kristen, she’s so beautiful.
KP: Patty.
CL: Patty.
Guy in Crowd: You’re all beautiful!
CL: You guys are like the nicest London audience, I swear.
Guy in Crowd: Playing beautiful songs!
CL: Fuck you, I hate you, you’re assholes. Tell me to get my tits out.
Audience screams.
CL: Saggy…?? (Laughs) Get dressed, you fucking slag.
-PENNYROYAL TEA
CL: I will later. (She resumes the song).
-PENNYROYAL TEA (continued)
-IMPROV (ANNE BOLEYN)
-TEENAGE WHORE
CL: This is my Eddie Vedder thing.
CL: If we play it, I sing it.
CL: Kristen.
KP: Yeah?
Someone in Crowd: Kristen!
CL: She’s hot, right? Kristen…Pat. She’s quick. Wait, wait, I’ll tell you a little story…she just quit a really cool, Albini-endorsed, AmRep band to sell out. She…
Someone in Crowd: ?? Steve!
CL: Oh, fuck Steve Albini! Come up here. I’ll fucking tell you all about it! He’s an asshole!
CL: Let me go.
Guy in Crowd: Get on with it!
-OLD AGE
CL: Virgin.
Guy in Crowd: Whore!
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: VIRGIN!
KP: Whore!
CL: VIRGIN!
KP: WHORE!
Guy in Crowd: Whore! Whore! Virgin! (Laughs)
-SHE WALKS ON ME
CL: This is a Raincoats song. We’d like to thank Lan…Linus for opening up. We’re sorry that our corporate crew fucked up Mambo Taxi, we’d have liked them to play – and Rollerskate Skinny, I thought were cool, so thanks for the bands. Linus or Lie?
-THE VOID
-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE
CL: That song is dedicated to my friend Jerry and my friend Sally.
Guy in Crowd: What about Kurt?
CL: Who’s that?
Audience laughs.
CL: Do you mean Eddie Vedder? Yeah, we ran off and got married. Groupies, you know.
-SOFTER, SOFTEST
The Kathleen Hanna recording resumes.
KH: …a band, they’re from England, and some of them have deemed them sort of like the English version of Bikini Kill, which I guess could be partly true, but um, you know, sometimes you don’t want that kind of label of somebody just kind of throwing you away, just ’cause you’re like somebody else.
CL: Check this out, this is so dumb.
KH: …and a lot of people seem to do that these days where if they hear something about somebody and it’s something that they don’t like and it might not be particularly true, they just kind of um, throw somebody off because oh well, that person, somebody said this is like that, so I don’t really want to have to do with it, sort of like, um, somebody told you, if you like tacos and you didn’t like burritos and somebody told you…
CL: ??
KH: … ‘Oh go try that, it’s kind of like a burrito.’ It’s sort of like that kind of thing, sort of like that, but not really.
CL: I hate Americans.
-GUTLESS
-THERE IS A LIGHT (TEASE)
CL: Thank you.
The Kathleen Hanna recording resumes.
KH: …People can get the wrong idea and not give people a chance to backfire in your face, to backfire on some of the issues that are really up in your face and stuff, so um, with this show, I think a lot of criticism like that comes from people already having their own ideas of what riot grrl was and what I was trying to do and never really listening to me as a person, it was automatically assumed that I was…
Guy in Crowd: Disneyland.
Girl in Crowd: Burn Black!
CL: I’ll try. I’ll try just for you, ’cause Patty wants to. Ok, this is a real cliché now, but let’s just do it.
CL: Medusa.
KP: Madonna.
CL: Medea.
KP: Medusa.
CL: Lady Macbeth.
KP: Uh, um, uh…
CL: Butch dykes, butch dykes, butch dykes throughout the years.
KP: Uh, lipstick lesbians.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: Virgin.
KP: Whore.
CL: I’m sorry, Kristen’s Mom.
Guy in Crowd: Still looks amazing to me, I don’t give a shit.
Girl in Crowd: Excuse me.
Guy in Crowd: I’m sorry.
CL: Isn’t Patty a good drummer?
Audience cheers.
CL: Yeah.
Guy in Crowd: ??
CL: I’m clean.
CL: This is what Steve Albini would call a f*ggot song…or a pussy song.
Guy in Crowd: Pussy song!
CL: Yeah, that’s Steve, he’s tough.
-DOLL PARTS
CL: Thanks.
CL: ??
CL: I’m gonna try it, just for you, ’cause we have the same dress.
-OLYMPIA
Kathleen Hanna recording resumes.
-OLYMPIA (CONTINUES)
CL: Hey Pat. Hey Patty, Patty. This girl, in this dress I have, like we have the same dress, she, um wants to hear Burn Black, but I can’t play it. Well, I’ll try, but it’ll be really lame and all the journalists will say we suck, but they already do that, so…I’m gonna try, for you.
-BURN BLACK
-IMPROV
CL: If I see Robert Sandall, I’m gonna punch him.
Audience cheers.
CL: Thanks for being good boys and not rapists, thanks for the girls, and thanks for Linus, they were really good – and Rollerskate Skinny. ??
(Cut)
CL: Would it be annoying to do another one?
Audience cheers.
CL: But…we can’t even play it. C’mon Kristen, your Mom’s here, for fuck’s sake. Now, if it’s annoying, we’ll split, I mean, it’s ok. I know we’ve over stayed. Hey Levi, you want us to do a Belly song? Levi was out with Belly…no, I like Belly. Can I have a…a guitar soon? I mean, would it be really annoying?
Audience: No!
CL: I’m sorry, I’m just like…I took a Rohypnol, do you guys know what that is? It’s English. I’m like…happy.
Guy in Crowd: I love you!
CL: ??
-SKINHEAD GIRL
CL: That’s not our song, it’s an Unrest song.
-WHY DO FEMINISTS GIVE BLOW JOBS
CL: Thank you. Goodnight.