Venue: The Trocadero
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Hole Lineup: Courtney Love (Guitar/Vocals), Eric Erlandson (Guitar), Melissa Auf der Maur (Bass/Background Vocals), and Patty Schemel (Drums).
CL: This is Melissa Auf der Maur.
-PLUMP
-NEVER GO AWAY
-BEAUTIFUL SON
CL: Thanks. We’d like to thank Madder Rose for opening for us. They’re a fine band.
-MISS WORLD
CL: We’re the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. That would be Jon. This is a song about being tied up and really liking it.
-JENNIFER’S BODY
CL: Thanks.
-ASKING FOR IT
Guy in Crowd: Eric.
CL: Where’s the baby? No, no, no, if she’s asleep ?? I have a baby. She’s cute. Cuter than me, that’s for damn sure.
-GUTLESS
CL: Thanks, we’re having a good ?? (Holding up a Barbie doll). This is the enemy.
CL: I haven’t told this to any other audience, so…my husband was in, uh, fourth grade, there was this girl named Sheila in his class and she smelled like pee and he used to pick on her and, uh, so I wrote this song for Sheila…and me, ’cause, uh, I smelled like pee too.
-SOFTER, SOFTEST
-I THINK THAT I WOULD DIE
-PRETTY ON THE INSIDE
-WHO IS THE BULLET?
-CREDIT IN THE STRAIGHT WORLD
CL: Thanks. I’m gonna have a little smoke, you guys. Just talk or something.
CL: That damn doll!
Guy in Crowd: Throw one up here!
CL: Well, you are telepathic.
-TEENAGE WHORE
Someone in Crowd: You go!
-DOLL PARTS
CL: Thanks. I wrote that song about a boy.
CL: Barbie is the enemy! No Barbie! (Laughs)
Guy in Crowd: Barbie is the enemy.
CL: I am…I am, shaped like a penis.
Audience cheers.
-VIOLET
-NEVER GO AWAY
CL: Thank you.
Audience begins chanting “Hole.”
Man: ?? Come on. Alright. Keep it up, keep it up.
CL: What?
MADM: Now you’re happy and wet.
-OLYMPIA
CL: (During song) I was never a punker, I was always new wave.
CL: If you want, ok, I’ll give you a choice. Do you want, uh, uh, an Appalachian blues ballad or a punk rock song?
Audience screams “Punk”.
CL: I’m so tired. You know what, see, the punk one ?? louder.
-SHE WALKS ON ME
Courtney stage dives. Her dress, a garter belt, and one of her stockings are torn off.
CL: My fucking favorite garter belt!