Transcript: June 26, 1999


Venue: Southside Festival
Location: Munich, Germany
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Samantha Maloney (Drums).


-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE

-HEAVEN TONIGHT

CL: Hello. Hello, Germany. ?? Hello, Germany. Are you having a good time?

Audience screams.

CL: Is it a good day? Is it a good FUCKING DAY?!

Audience screams.

CL: I’m having a good day. I like you guys. You’re cute. Damn, I’ve gotta say, you’re cuter than the English people last night, aren’t they? (Laughs) You might be a little more rude than anyone in the world, but you sure are cuter than anyone in the world – maybe it gives you the right. God, you’re all so good fuckin’ looking.

-AWFUL

CL: ?? Go then.

MADM: Danke schoen, yeah? Danke schoen.

CL: (Singing) Auf Wiedersehen, goodnight. I’d love to stay and taste my first champagne. Goodnight.

-MISS WORLD

Courtney sings a few lyrics of an unidentified song.

-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL

CL: Shh, shh, shh. What? You want something to drink? You want water? Oh. Why don’t they have fucking water?! It’s a festival, assholes, where’s the…

Audience screams.

CL: Give me all the water back there. This is not gonna do much. What promoter doesn’t give kids fucking water on a hot day? Y’all want me to go on a fucking rant? Then get some water to the kids – ok, get the fucking hose then. I don’t see any goddamn hose. I have one little cup. I don’t see a fucking hose, this is really retarded. How retarded, Melissa? Have you ever seen a concert without…so maybe it’s just the promoter in Germany that’s sadistic. Give me that girl. I want that girl right there. Bring her here. Let her come up here. LET ME HAVE HER. Gee, if you’re thirsty, you might get a sip of fucking water, just get up here. What asshole doesn’t have a cup? Do you have a ?? for water for them? You don’t have a ?? You know, not that I’m so great, but the promoter fucking is making all the money.

MADM: This song is about water, so drink it.

CL: Everywhere else in the world, any festival has water. Are you guys just sadistic?

Opening chords to Malibu.

CL: This is a song about WATER!

-MALIBU

Courtney pants heavily into the mic.

CL: No, you didn’t do a very good job. Did you say play some Skynyrd? I’ll play some fucking Skynyrd. I…there’s this totally great Skynyrd song. Hey Gavin, should we play some Skynyrd? This is a song you’ve never heard, Gavin, I swear to God you’ll like it. It’s so tasteful. Do you guys wanna play some Skynyrd? Oh, like they’re gonna get mad, so fuck Blur, ok. We’re gonna do it. Dude, we’re gonna play some Skynyrd, but it’s such a good Skynyrd song, you won’t recognize it, ok, check it out.

The opening of the song starts and stops, then restarts.

-ONE MORE TIME

CL: If you didn’t like that, you can blame that on the Marine that asked for it – but I fucking do, that was Skynyrd!

Audience cheers.

CL: (Laughs) Oh, you know what, you asked for Skynyrd, you fucking got it. Now I want you to make everyone around you cheer, ’cause it’s your fault, your little American army guy. I did not write this for you.

-DOLL PARTS

Courtney holds the mic out to a fan to finish the lyric, “He only loves those things…”

CL: (During song) Thank you. That was so nice.

Courtney holds the mic out to the audience to finish the lyric, “Someday you will…”

CL: (During song) NO, BETTER!

She holds the mic out again.

CL: (During song) MORE!

CL: This next song is about, um, um, it’s called Boys On the Radio and it’s about our Pisces…it’s about our Pisces boys on the radio. This is…this is a song that’s sort of about my friend Gavin and it’s sort of about my friend ?? It’s about all the Pisces ?? Thank you. Sorry.

-BOYS ON THE RADIO

During the song, Courtney goes down to the audience.

CL: (During song) C’mere.

Courtney gestures at a bouncer.

CL: (During song) Help me.

The bouncer pulls a girl out of the audience.

Courtney walks around, touching people’s hands. She tries to pull a girl out of the crowd and some bouncers help get the girl the rest of the way out. Courtney gets back on stage. Several girls have been pulled up from the audience and are sitting in front of Sam’s drums. A girl with short, red hair is pulled up from the audience and Courtney dances with her while singing, then sends her to sit with the others. Courtney takes off her shoes.

-NORTHERN STAR

During the song, a guy in the audience is holding up a T-shirt with Kurt’s face on it.

CL: One more. Thank you. This is our last song. We were a little late, we apologize to the other bands.

Courtney pants heavily into the mic.

CL: ??

-CELEBRITY SKIN

MADM: Danke schoen, you rock, rock Germany.

CL: Thank you very much.

CL: Are you gonna hold that T-shirt of Kurt for the guy from Blur? What…what’s that supposed to symbolize? Oh, is he here? Did he move to Germany? Dude, like, thank you very much. Thank you, Germany!

Courtney holds out the mic to a fan.

CL: Hey, you wanna talk?

The fan yells something into the mic.

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