Venue: Academy
Location: Manchester, England
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. A complete recording hasn’t surfaced. The setlist might not be in the exact order.
– PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
– SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
– SKINNY LITTLE BITCH
CL: Thank you. We are Hole. My voice is shot to shit. I gave it to Glasgow. Oh, poor Manchester, always taking the seconds. Fuck that. I’m…we’re gonna give it a try. Ok. Shut up. Wait. Hold on.
CL: (Fake English accent) My name’s Courtney. (Laughs) My name’s Courtney. There’s Micko. He’s fucking mad for it.
CL: Alright, do you want an oldie? Do you want an oldie? Oh, you weren’t even born when I wrote this fucking song.
– MISS WORLD
CL: Do you want to hear a Leonard Cohen song? ?? I always loved this song. It was my first record I ever had when I was a kid and, um, the only good thing my childhood did, but I had this one Leonard Cohen record and this song was on it and we’re gonna try it again.
– TAKE THIS LONGING
CL: That was pretty good, right?
(CUT)
CL: ‘Cause I used to live in Liverpool and I used to come here and I used to go to that club The Hacienda.
Audience screams.
CL: I did. I was fourteen and I went…and I went on the first night it opened. It was all clean and shiny and I saw New Order’s first show there. (Fake English accent) Fucking Manchester. (Normal voice) Alright, this song is not about a person in Manchester…this song is about Billy Corgan. I wrote this song about Billy.
Audience screams.
CL: It wasn’t really sexual, it was more romantic. We wrote songs about each other. Like every good song he ever wrote was about me, I swear to God. This is my one good song about Billy. Check it out.
– VIOLET
CL: Thank you so much. My voice is shot, man. I’m so sorry. I gave it to the Scots. Four hours in my underwear – not even sold out, like 500 Scots. I know it sucks, right, but…at least I’m not gonna put you through Suffer Little Children. That didn’t go down so well. I…I…I tried playing Suffer Little Children in London and ohh, oh Manchester, so much to answer for. I almost got killed. So check it out. This song, uh, Linda Perry wrote this song and gave it to me. I didn’t write this song, but I fucking can sing the shit out of it.
– LETTER TO GOD
(CUT)
CL: That’s Shawn. He’s a really good fuck. He can’t sing like a girl, but he can play like a monster.
CL: Oh, we’re gonna, uh, we’re gonna do this song for you now and it’s dedicated to a boy.
– FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE
– GOLD DUST WOMAN
– PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY
CL: (CUT) and it’s really, really hard ?? play, nor sing, so show some fucking respect. No, seriously. We’ve only played this once and we annoyed some Limp Bizkit fans. I get annoyed at the Limp Bizkit fans.
– HOW DIRTY GIRLS GET CLEAN
CL: Alright, so do you want a song off Celebrity Skin or a song off Live Through This? I’m gonna give you a choice. Do you want Awful or do you…Awful?
Audience screams.
CL: Or Asking For It?
CL: It’s called Asking For It. It’s the rape song.
Opening chords to Asking For It.
CL: (To Micko) ?? start that again, ’cause that really sucked.
CL: (To Micko) It goes (singing) every time that I stare into the sun, angel dust and my dress just comes undone. Was she asking for it?
CL: We’re having an implosion. Just shut up. Hold on. Dude that does houselights – turn them on every once in a while. I want to see who I’m playing to. Then turn them off.
Audience screams.
CL: Awesome. Hey, Manchester.
CL: What’s going…what’s wrong? Something with your wig? What? Should we play another song until that gets fixed then? Our amplifier just broke. Hold on. Alright, we’ll do an acoustic song while they fix that. Micko, get an acoustic one. Now. They have to…it’s not my fucking fault. Dude, not my fucking fault. Blame ?? I’m trying to think what I can do acoustic. What?
Audience screams.
CL: I would do that one. Tell me another one.
Courtney leans closer to the audience to hear.
CL: I’ll do that for you. I’ve never done that acoustic. So acoustic Boys On the Radio. Alright, we’ll try it. Shawn, you can help.
– BOYS ON THE RADIO
CL: (To Micko) I skipped a ?? Is the thing fucking fixed yet? Well, we could just do this.
(CUT)
– BEST SUNDAY DRESS/PALE BLUE EYES (IMPROV)
– MALIBU
– ASKING FOR IT
– PLAY WITH FIRE
– CELEBRITY SKIN
– DOLL PARTS
– THIRTEEN
– JENNIFER’S BODY