Venue: Nashville River Stages Festival
Location: Nashville, TN
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Samantha Maloney (Drums).
CL: ?? ?? Go!
-VIOLET
CL: Someone fix my voice.
Courtney slips her shoes off.
CL: Look, goddamnit, there’s like 5, 10, 20,000 people here, if someone doesn’t fix my fucking thing, I’m gonna be mad.
A crew member comes over and starts doing something to Courtney’s guitar.
CL: ?? I need someone to, like, fix this monitor right now, so I can play a nice rock show or…I’m being pretty not nice, but I can’t do anything unless I can hear. Do it now, please. That’s how you ?? you say ‘please.’ You have to say ‘please’ really bitchily and then they do what you say.
Another crew member comes over to her.
-AWFUL
During the song: A crew member follows Courtney around, trying to fix something. She goes over to a monitor by Eric and stands on it.
CL: Hi. Hey there.
MADM: What a sexy, warm welcome from Nashville. Thank you so much.
CL: They’re sexy, right? It’s that Southern thing. I like that Southern thing, it’s sexy for me.
MADM: Can we be the honorary Nashville Goddesses today, or no?
CL: Sexy, Southern. How many Baptists are here? I like Baptists. Baptists are sexy. I really mean that.
Courtney points at a T-shirt in the audience.
CL: ‘Courtney, I love you, wanna fuck?’ No, see, ’cause you’re obviously not a Baptist or you wouldn’t be using profanity. ?? ??
Courtney stands on a monitor at the beginning of the next song.
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-HEAVEN TONIGHT
During the song, Courtney stands on monitors. She gets down and stands next to Melissa for a minute. She goes over to Eric’s side of the stage and climbs up the stage rigging. Crew members stand by to help her down.
The song ends and Courtney continues to climb up.
MADM: She’s a wild, wild cowgirl. Wow.
CL: Do I have to get down for the next song? The next song…what is the next song?
MADM: It’s Miss World.
Eric stands by to help Courtney down.
CL: You’re not gonna catch me, you fucker, I went out with you ?? – you lost.
Courtney climbs down.
CL: I know this is a Baptist town and I shouldn’t be using profanity around here, I’m very sorry. ?? and I do mean that. I will cease now to offend anybody. It’s a bad habit, I’m sorry. What you gotta say? What is that?
Courtney points the mic at the audience.
CL: ?? pussy. What is that?
She points the mic at the audience again.
CL: Oh man, that ain’t nothing. C’mon, give me some more, I want it big.
Audience screams.
CL: Oh. Sort of ok.
-MISS WORLD
-REASONS TO BE BEAUTIFUL
CL: Thank you.
MADM: How about Cheap Trick? How was Cheap Trick?
CL: I love them, they’re Gods.
Melissa & Courtney sing “I want you to want me, I need you to need me.”
CL: I love it. ?? sexy.
-YOU AIN’T WOMAN ENOUGH (TO TAKE MY MAN) (TEASE)
CL: ??
MADM: This song is for Cheap Trick and Nashville.
-MALIBU
During the song: Courtney stands on monitors and squats down, then sits. She goes over to Eric’s side of the stage and climbs the stage rigging again. Crew members stand by to help. She climbs down. She stands on a monitor.
CL: Thank you.
CL: Hi. I wanna stage dive. I wanna stage dive, but you know what’s gonna happen? My arms are gonna get broken. I don’t know, you…you punkers, I’m…I’m talking to the girl in the shirt there. They’re so scared of me – come here, baby. Don’t be scared of me, I’m…I’m sweet as can be…you know, I might not be, but (gesturing at Melissa) she’s really nice.
-DYING
During the song, Courtney goes over to Melissa’s side of the stage. She holds on to the stage rigging, then walks along the edge of the stage. She climbs up high on top of speakers, then climbs down. She goes over to Melissa and puts her arm around her for a second. She takes off her top (she still has a bikini on), but she’s pulled out an ear piece with a long cord – a crew member rushes over and gets it back on her.
After the song, Courtney goes over and talks to Melissa.
CL: What did you say?
Courtney kneels down at the edge of the stage.
CL: No more what? No more what? No more ?? Then the grown ups will get scared. It’s really, really important that the jocks and the freaks learn to love each other, ’cause we all have a little jock in us, don’t we? And we all have a little freak – and it’s really, really important that the stoners and the socs learn to love each other. See, I’m old, I know this now. It was a terrible, terrible thing that happened in our country, now we have to learn to kind of like…jocks and freaks have to be friends, that’s so weird, but we have to do it.
She stands up.
CL: I have some jock friends – I’m friends with Brad Pitt. He’s a jock, I’m a freak. If I can do that, you can do it. It was hard, we made friends, it works. You have to try. Do you even know what I’m talking about?
Audience screams.
CL: ‘Cause, like…all the stoners and freaks in this place are gonna be in concentration camps if we don’t deal with it. If a jock kicks your ass, go to the gym until you can kick his ass back. (Laughs) That’s terrible advice, I’m sorry. Now, I know I’m being ?? but no more guns please, no more of those fucking guns. Get rid of the guns. ?? misery, motherfucking guns. Give up the guns. No guns, please, please. If you’re a Baptist, get rid of the guns. Please, please, I’m begging you. I’ll give you a hundred dollars – I’ll give you a thousand dollars if everyone here gets rid of your guns, I swear. I know what I’m talking about. ??
CL: Alright, so, give me my guitar back.
A crew member brings her a guitar.
CL: That was my little piece of Nashville advice. Sorry. Oh, excuse me, sorry I’m not Hootie. HAHA. Alright, shh shh. Calm down. See, the little stoners – get with the jock’s circles and get used to them. I’m ready.
-DOLL PARTS
-THE TRACKS OF MY TEARS (TEASE)
CL: Will you look at that? That’s a full moon right there. It’s so sexy. ?? look at that moon. ?? See, when you get older, you’re not afraid of the jocks and the socs and the stoners and the freaks, you can all look at the moon and go ‘It’s pretty.’ ??
-BOYS ON THE RADIO
During the song, Courtney goes over to Eric’s side of the stage. She climbs onto a bouncer’s shoulders. She gets down, standing very close to the audience, then she gets back on the bouncer’s shoulders.
CL: Alright. There’s one country music artist that I love, her name is Trisha Yearwood, I think she’s so great. Now, you little punks, you better cheer for Trisha Yearwood, she is a punk rocker Goddess! I swear to God. ?? I’m leaving if you don’t cheer, pussies. She’s so good. Louder. This is hot.
CL: So we got one more? What?
Men in the audience are chanting, ‘Show your tits.’
CL: Show my tits? What, are you British now? I’m not showing my tits. I did that in Australia, this is Baptist country. I ain’t doing that. Sorry baby, I’ll get in trouble. I did it in ?? and it was very organic and I don’t feel like it anymore. It wasn’t, like, some fake, pop person thing, it just happened. So I’m not gonna show my tits ’cause you wanna see ’em. Go get Playboy.
Guy in Crowd: Was she in Playboy?
CL: You know how…you know how I show my tits? A lot of lighters, because you love me.
The audience is filled with lighters.
CL: (Laughs) You gotta wait for a ballad, dork. I’m not gonna do it.
-NORTHERN STAR
During the song, someone throws a T-shirt on stage and Courtney puts it on. She stands a monitor.
CL: Thank you very much.
Courtney picks up some other shirts that were thrown on stage. One of them is the shirt she pointed out earlier that says “Courtney I (Heart) You. Wanna Fuck?” on it.
CL: Hey, you know, you throw me a good T-shirt, I’ll wear it, but this one’s not so great.
She takes off the T-shirt that she had put on earlier.
CL: ?? I hope you’re a Baptist.
CL: Um, do you guys wanna do one more song? Do you want another song? Do you want to do another song?
She pulls the “Courtney I (Heart) You” shirt up over her arms.
CL: (Mocking voice) ?? Doobie Brothers song? I’m not making fun of you, whatever – yes, I am. ??
She puts the “Courtney I (Heart) You” shirt the rest of the way on.
CL: Alright, I’m gonna keep this one.
CL: C’mon, you can play it, Eric. Come on, do your Zeppelin thing. I don’t give a shit. Oh come on, Eric. Just do a Zeppelin song, just for me, I don’t care. They like it. Come on. ?? You like a Whole Lotta Love? Right? Right? You can do it. ?? since he was seven. Do it.
-WHOLE LOTTA LOVE (TEASE)
CL: Oh, shut up, you dick. ?? do it for another fucking audience.
MADM: We might have to play a Hole song instead.
CL: No, we’ve got something better. This motherfucker, he let me down with this fucking thing. I’m gonna make it up to you.
MADM: With a special, special ?? song.
CL: ??
-PARADISE CITY
During the song, Courtney takes off the T-shirt she had put on earlier.
-CELEBRITY SKIN
Courtney stands at the edge of the stage, holding a guitar.
CL: Who wants it?
She hands the guitar down to a bouncer and tells him who to give it to.
CL: You asked for it.
-YOU AIN’T WOMAN ENOUGH (TO TAKE MY MAN) (TEASE)
CL: Thank you!
The band walks off stage. Samantha swats Courtney’s butt with a towel as they walk off.