Venue: Brixton Academy
Location: London, England
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Samantha Maloney (Drums).
-OLD AGE INTRO
-VIOLET
CL: Ta.
-AWFUL
CL: Come here, baby.
CL: Just come up and sit. This is such an easy job, I’m gonna show you how to do it. Come here. See. Oh, fucking…don’t be so British. That little girl right there, I like her. Right there.
CL: Hi. You…are British.
Audience screams.
CL: I lost my virginity to one of you. We are American…and Canadian. Yeah, see, therein lies the problem. If you’ll be nice to us, United States will be nice to Oasis. See how it works? Oh yeah. You don’t believe me, girl? You little bitch. I ain’t one of your little Loaded, fucking Maxim cover girls. I’m coming down there, I’m gonna suck your dick off. It ain’t be gonna be ?? an ice cream cone, it’s gonna come off. So we love you, we love English people so much, and we know you love American people, so let’s make Oasis really big in America and…and we’ll make Jewel really big here. (Laughs) ?? If you’re female and you can make it on the stage, you can fucking come.
CL: This song is about…football.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-HEAVEN TONIGHT
NOTE: There’s static interference and the song completely fades out. It sounds like the taper was spotted recording and they had to hide their equipment.
Man: Do you want to stay and watch the show?
Taper: Yeah.
Man: Yeah? After the show, I keep this, you come see me. Yeah.
Taper: ??
Man: You come to me, come to me after, I’ll be here. Ask for stage manager.
CL: Hi. Hi. Hi, London. Hi.
Audience screams.
CL: Hi, you lousy little English fuckers. I want to stage dive, but I won’t. Hi, London.
NOTE: There’s some sound interference here, like the taper is moving their equipment around again.
CL: See, I love you too, but, like, your press sucks, maybe I’ll change it, maybe I’ll ??
CL: I would like to thank R.E.M. for creating me.
-MISS WORLD
-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
MADM: It’s very sweaty in your kind of foggy city. I’m dripping with sex sweat. Jesus.
-MALIBU
-BRING ME THE HEAD OF JOHN (IMPROV)
-DYING
CL: Thank you. Wait. Ok. I can’t have anybody else on stage or the (Fake English accent) London City Council will shut them down. (Normal voice) That doesn’t happen any place else, you guys just want to see the ?? I love the anarchy against capitalism shit, man, keep it up. I can’t have anymore kids ’cause the city council will shut them down? This doesn’t happen in New Hampshire. Yeah, well, I’d stage dive if you wouldn’t kill me and you probably would, so…so if you come up here, they’ll shut me down. Ok, well, thank you for coming. Well…would you like a flower? Well I can’t come out there ?? Here. Ok.
-PLAYING YOUR SONG
CL: Thank you. Thank you, London. Can you have somebody bring me my water? Thank you very much, thank you. Oh, are you guys having an ok time?
Audience screams.
CL: Good. I’m glad. Don’t let them make you cynical. Don’t let those magazines and all that shit make you cynical. It’s so weird…you can come up here. ‘Cause she’s my cousin – ?? see, I’m related to her. Don’t let them make you cynical, please, it’s…they’ll kill you. It’ll turn you into drug addict, fucking losers. Don’t be cynical, please ?? just don’t be cynical ok? Ok? Ok? ?? Just, please let’s not be cynical. Oh, come on, you’re from a really intelligent race of human beings. I know British people are smart. When I say stop being cynical, do you understand what I am saying?
Audience screams.
CL: It’s so cool to not be cynical. Just be enthusiastic and not cynical, it’s ok. Fuck magazines that tell you how ?? cool, I’m richer than anybody that bought ?? magazine and I’m so fucking geeky it’s crazy, ok. DON’T BE CYNICAL! That’s what I came here to say.
CL: Oh, dude, did you just say ‘Fuck you’ to me for saying ‘Don’t be cynical’? Oh, that is so cute. It’s perfect. Don’t be cynical, fuck you. Ok, you can ?? I don’t give a shit. I wrote this song in my bathroom…and here I am, uncynical. Fuck you ??
-DOLL PARTS
Courtney holds the mic out to the audience to finish the lyric, “Someday you will…”
CL: (During song) MORE!
She holds out the mic again.
CL: (During song) MORE!
She holds out the mic again.
CL: Y’all wanna hear an old song?
Audience screams.
CL: Oh yeah. Really old?
Audience screams.
CL: Fine. Three chords and all that shit? This song is about boys that, um, had problems with their mothers and are not really gay, but have feminine aspects and…it’s about androgynous men, which you have a whole goddamn nation of!
Opening chords to Beautiful Son.
CL: Oh, wait. That’s the…
Opening chords to Beautiful Son.
CL: Shut up, ??
Opening chords to Beautiful Son.
CL: No.
CL: ?? song.
-BEAUTIFUL SON
CL: ?? I couldn’t believe it, it fucking hurt so bad, you know. I know, you know, I don’t know, you know! Everything just moved so fast and then he was gone and then there was a flash of lightning, there was a car and ?? There were no brakes! THERE WERE NO FUCKING BRAKES! It wasn’t the fault of the company, we could not sue! There were no brakes! It’s just the way the machine was made, since 1948. It’s no brakes and they FUCK YOU and they ?? and they FUCK YOU! What can you do? What can you do? You can’t do nothing, can’t do anything. What are you supposed to do with that? Tell me, I don’t know, tell me, what are you supposed to do? You tell me. How am I supposed to know? But…at the end of the goddamn tunnel, pick yourself up, go away girl and pick yourself up by the bootstraps, get down to brass tacks, you’re TOUGH and you can fix this and there’s light at the end of the tunnel and it will be better. I feel it. DO YOU FEEL IT?
Audience screams.
CL: ‘Cause I do! This song is for all of them, all of them. They’re not here now.
-BOYS ON THE RADIO
CL: ?? and there was nobody there, just a weird moon. Weird view of Santa Monica, weird view of the ?? weird view across the Mersey, weird view of Lake Washington, weird, weird, view of the jungle in ?? and then it was gone and then it was gone…and it was black, weird stretch marks and shit all over me and…Melissa what happened to you in that goddamn – where are you? Where’s my girl? Ok. Oh, we have to leave now! Goodnight!
(Encore break)
CL: This song is dedicated to, um…three men in my life who have been, well, there’s four men in my life…five men (Laughs) shit. Alright, there’s only three men that are around right now that I…I worship so much, two of them are from Georgia, which is where peaches come from. How good are peaches when you eat them? It reminds me of sex and stuff, right? Could you just cheer for peaches? Do you want me to perform this encore?
Audience screams.
CL: Two are from Georgia and one is from Czechoslovakia. ?? So this song is for them, because I wouldn’t…I wouldn’t be alive without them.
-NORTHERN STAR
CL: (During song) I swear I’m telling the truth.
CL: Thank you very much. Thank you, London, Thank you, Eric.
CL: Thanks a lot. Um, Melissa…did you have any fun, you sexy bitch? Did you like this London show? Carnaby guys are really sexy, that’s the problem.
MADM: (Singing) Panic on the streets of London, panic on the streets of Birmingham. I wonder to myself.
CL: It’s a love/hate thing, it’s like I hate you, but I want to fuck you. It’s just that English boys do something to me. I hate you. You’re such pricks, but why do I want to fuck you? It’s his fault (Laughs).
MADM: ??
CL: Yeah, British boys…
MADM: How about the British music? Oh geez, the geniuses in the music that have come out of this country.
CL: Don’t be too goddamn nice.
MADM: ??
CL: Oh, stop it. Name a band. I’ll ?? it – Radiohead. Oh excuse me, Led Zeppelin. The Beatles. But you know what, I’m sorry to tell you, but it…it’s not Supergrass. I’m really sorry for letting you know that (Laughs). It’s just not. It wasn’t The Wonder Stuff, but it was Echo & the Bunnymen and it was the Psychedelic Furs and it was New Order and it was The Chemical Brothers.
-ASKING FOR IT
CL: (Singing) Get your kicks on Route 66, get your kicks on Route 66, get your kicks on Route 66.
MADM: (Singing) Panic on the streets of London.
MADM: ??
CL: (Singing) London bridge is falling down, it’s falling down, it’s falling down, London bridge is falling down.
-IT’S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE
-CELEBRITY SKIN
CL: (During song) Sing it with me.
CL: (Fake English accent) Oh gosh, she wasn’t like that nice George Michaels (sic). Oh gosh, she wasn’t like that nice Robbie Williams. She can’t sing, you know. She just can’t sing. Oh gosh, she wasn’t like that nice ?? Oh goodness me, it sounds like such a racket, oh my goodness, it wasn’t like that nice Sir Paul McCartney…and I mean, even Mr. Liam Gallagher can sing better than her. Oh my goodness, it wasn’t like that very nice young man, Ozzy Osbourne.
CL: Alright, who the fuck wants my guitar?
CL: I think it’s you. Yeah.
CL: (Fake English accent) Oh my goodness, she wasn’t like that very nice guy ?? She’s sort of nasty and she uses profanity, no wonder she doesn’t ?? children. Oh my goodness. Where’s the ?? Where’s this fan? (Normal voice) Where are you, buddy? (Fake English accent) Come here, you frog and you peach. oh my goodness, she can’t sing, she can’t play, she’s overweight just like me.
CL: And then they…alright, don’t sell it, bitch, ok. I want to be Oprah now. Shut up, shut up, just go and be a rock star, it’s so fun – and then everyone wants to fuck you, it’s the coolest thing in the world. Say you’re gonna do it…
Girl: I love you, Courtney!
CL: ?? say you’re not gonna sell your guitar.
CL: ?? Thank you, London, we love you very much!