Courtney Love Is Done With Hole
She’s sick of playing “oldies,” so she’s just going to perform as a solo artist from now on.
Courtney Love says that she’s dropping the band name Hole, and will henceforth write, record, and perform as a solo artist. She revealed this in the comments section of the Facebook page for Mark Yarm’s excellent grunge history book, Everybody Loves Our Town.
The original incarnation of Hole was active between 1989 and 2000, and broke up officially in 2002. Love released one album as a solo artist, America’s Sweetheart, but that record flopped upon its release in 2004. Too bad, really, because it had some really great songs on it, like “But Julian, I’m A Little Bit Older Than You.”
She eventually went back to the name Hole in 2009, but without any of her old bandmates. Former guitarist and Hole co-founder Eric Erlandson tried to keep her from using the name, claiming that he and Love had signed a contract preventing either from reforming the band without mutual involvement. Love disregarded all of that and released a fourth Hole album, Nobody’s Daughter, in 2010.
Despite this awkwardness, the classic lineup of Hole reunited for one night at the afterparty for the premiere of a documentary about drummer Patty Schemel called Hit So Hard.
Love has been performing with a new version of Hole featuring guitarist Micko Larkin over the past few years. Here they are playing a full concert earlier this year.
Love has been playing a lot of Hole’s biggest hits in concert – “Miss World,” “Violet,” “Doll Parts,” “Celebrity Skin,” “Malibu” – but has been focusing mainly on new songs and covers of tunes by The Rolling Stones, Lady Gaga, Leonard Cohen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and U2. It will be interesting to see if she actually goes ahead and totally drops her Hole songs from her shows going forward, and if her fans will support that.
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buddersmoosh 5 months agoThe reason she’s famous is because 1. she married Kurt Cobain, 2. she fronted Hole without any of those things she is NULL!
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starb 5 months agoCourtney love is still a rock and roll priestess. It’s really sad about the drugs. She could have been a much better representative for women of rock clean and sober, and a better role model for young women for sure. (Like her daughter.) But let it be pointed out that a lot of male rock stars are also notorious druggies: Steven Tyler, Sid Vicious, the much beloved Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley. They don’t get even half as much sh*t for their failings as the women do. A segment of the public believes that being junkies gives them a special mystique. Be introspective enough to ask if it’s really ‘okay’ to admire a male drug addict.
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itmustbeken 5 months agoAnyone care to guess how long it will be before she has an on stage rant at fans chanting for her to play the hits? I’m gonna say 6 months and we’ll be reading about it.
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