Venue: Electric Factory
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Band Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Micko Larkin (Guitar), Invisible Dave (Guitar/Keyboard), Shawn Dailey (Bass), and Stuart Fisher (Drums).
NOTE: This is a partial transcript pieced together from videos. Some songs might be missing.
CL: Sorry I was late. I ?? was texting someone I had a fucking crush on. ?? Ok, so wait a minute. It goes like this. Hi. I haven’t been here since Khyber Pass.
– PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
– SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
– SKINNY LITTLE BITCH
During the song, Courtney lifts her dress, showing her underwear. The audience screams.
CL: Thank you. How are you?
Audience screams.
CL: Yeah? Well, I’m depressed.
– MISS WORLD
CL: Are you ready for another one? Are you ready for another one?
– VIOLET
– HURT (TEASE)
– IMPROV
CL: ??
– CLOSER
– THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY
Opening chords to PCH.
CL: That was my Judy for my gays.
Audience screams.
– PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY
During the song, Courtney turns the mic to the audience to let them sing, “The whole wide world is in my hands.”
CL: Thank you.
(CUT)
– LETTER TO GOD
Courtney lifts up her dress, showing her underwear.
CL: These were $800. Look at this.
Audience screams.
CL: I’m pretty broke, but I had to have them. An $800 pair of panties. Aren’t they cool?
Audience screams.
– FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE
– REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
(CUT)
Courtney takes off her dress right before the song.
– TAKE THIS LONGING
(CUT)
CL: And it’s not 20 Years in the Dakota. I wish. No, you’ll like it. I have not played this song in years, so ready?
– PLUMP
– SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (REPRISE)
CL: This is a song about a town, a little village, with 33,000 people that live in it…and one night, in October of 2009, despite writing this song, which by the way, technically is our highest charting top 40 song ever, other than Skinny Little Bitch, the fucking Sheriff came by and told me I had two weeks to leave, so I say fuck Malibu, but I’ll still sing this song.
Opening chords to Malibu.
CL: (Fake Southern accent) We don’t want your kind here, ma’am.
– MALIBU
– CELEBRITY SKIN
CL: My voice was really good at the top and it’s getting a little shaky now and this next song is really hard to sing ’cause I’m elderly, so it’s called Samantha and if you know it, you’ve gotta sing with me. You know the part, ‘People like you fuck people like me’? Sing that with me, ’cause it’s really hard…I swear to God, it’s hard to sing.
She takes a drink of water.
CL: What I was trying to do when we wrote that was, um, I was listening to, like, Nine Inch Nails and I realized that if we ever opened for Metallica or Slayer or something, we wouldn’t have anything to kick their ass, so this is our, like, song that we could kick anyone’s ass with. So, ready?
– SAMANTHA
During the song, Courtney turns the mic to the audience to let them sing, “People like you fuck people like me.”
CL: Thank you very much. Merci. Merci beaucoup.
(Encore break)
When the band returns for the encore, Courtney has put a slip dress on.
– PLAY WITH FIRE
CL: Um, I was only allowed two hits off Celebrity Skin ’cause of the budget, but ??
Guy in Crowd: Awful!
CL: No, it’s not Awful, which…it should have been one, but this is the other one. Alright, here, guess.
The audience starts screaming song titles.
CL: I’m not gonna get in my panties for this. I will give you…oh, something, a lipstick or something, if you guess which is the next song off Celebrity Skin we’re gonna play. Who said…what…you? (She points to someone in the audience). What did you say?
Guy in Crowd: Boys On the Radio!
CL: Boys On the Radio? You, yeah you…you’re right. I’m gonna give you something. Hold on.
CL: (Gesturing to someone at the side of the stage) ?? can I have your lipstick?
Courtney hands the lipstick to someone in the audience.
CL: That’s ?? forever.
Opening chords to Boys On the Radio.
CL: I love this song.
– BOYS ON THE RADIO
– DOLL PARTS
– PRETTY YOUR WHOLE LIFE
– NORTHERN STAR
– THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY (REPRISE)
– THIRTEEN
During Micko’s guitar solo in the song, Courtney dances around the stage and urges the audience to applaud for him. Then she says, “Real cute, right? Yeah.”
CL: Goodnight, Philadelphia.