Hole is back, sort of. For this iteration of the project, perpetually embattled typo machine Courtney Love has rounded up guitarist Micko Larkin, bassist Shawn Dailey and Stu Fischer on drums, i.e. no original Hole members, i.e. much to the chagrin of co-founder Eric Erlandson. On Thursday night, “Hole” did the Jonathan Ross show, a televised precursor to a few dates they’ll be doing in London (and eventually, SXSW). They’re promoting the forthcoming Nobody’s Daughter via a new tune, the Linda Perry and Billy Corgan co-written “Samantha.” And while it doesn’t take a high level of sobriety of mind or spirit for Courtney to convincingly sing like Courtney, she looks and sounds better than you might expect. Good enough to speak at Oxford, even (apparently).
(via 24Bit)
Also, a make-up tutorial:
These oughta be interesting:
2/17 – London, UK @ Shepherds Bush Empire
2/19 – Milan, Italy @ Milan Magazzini Generali
2/21 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands @ Paradiso
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I’m old enough to remember when Courtney used to argue that she wrote the songs on Live Through This and that it was sexist to suggest that Cobain wrote the catchier songs. Now she’s proving she doesn’t even write the mediocre songs.
Umm…she actually sounds like sh**. That’s better than we might expect?
It sounds pretty good to me
Brilliant. Great stage presence. Decent song sung hard. Looks fantastic.
Once dinosaurs ruled the earth, too.
Say what you will but she screams better than any other female singer out there
maybe bob dylan should work with LP and BC…as this song and the sessions were compared to the classic dylan period of the mid to late 60′s…this coming from love/perry…and clearly I can hear the comparison…I believe she is singing at one point ‘people like you suck people like me’…this line alone stands against ‘To her, death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest, Her profession’s her religion, Her sin is her lifelessness ,And though her eyes are fixed upon, Noah’s great rainbow, She spends her time peeking, Into Desolation Row’. I mean really, that doesn’t sound like a 15 year old wrote it in her Hello Kitty notebook, not at all.
Courtney sounds good but the song sounds like utter shit. This was written by Billy Corgan?
Corgan wrote the opening riff.
Hole with 3 dudes? I dunno… I’m trying to keep an open mind. I still like Courtney Love and I’d rather listen to this than another emo boy. I like my rock stars ragged. Although doesn’t it seems as though the British are more into her than Americans?
Eh, I could care less about the new members. Courtney is Hole and Hole is Courtney, although it’s gonna be weird to not see Eric there anymore.
Ouch. The once-die-hard-Hole-fan in me winces a bit. I loved Courtney no matter what for a really long time, but it is painful to watch her in this because I feel like she is scrambling some. She just doesn’t have the same conviction in the delivery. It falls short of doing her justice. I detect the tiniest hint of self-doubt and that’s not very Courtney. It feels empty. Like she’s stirring up the old “feel” of Hole without the heart behind it. And because of that, it doesn’t “feel” like Hole to me. I almost wished I’d have been left with my memories.
She looks like Dee Snider.