Will there be a meeting of hole? Judging by the words Courtney Love he spoke at his last public event in London, everything indicates that yes.
The American singer and musician appeared by surprise at the last concert that the cover band of Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day), The Coverupsoffered in the British capital. Courtney He got on stage with Oakland to cover a couple of songs: He’s A Whore, Surrender and E.come The Losers.
The singer introduced herself to the audience with a curious message: “My name is Courtney Love. You may not remember me. I’ve been living in a cave in Birmingham for nine years. Let’s try it.” Little by little the show went on and just before leaving the stage, the couple’s former partner Kurt Cobain He said, to the surprise of those present: “Later… I will return to Hole.” And while Courtney Love walked off the stage, Billie Joe He reminded her, “I told you it was going to be a special night.”
Possible previous reunions
This message from Courtney Love It has not been the first public attempt that the American has had to open the door to a meeting of hole, twenty-two years after its dissolution. In 2020 he commented to the web portal NME who had stayed with two of his former bandmates, Patty Schemel and Melissa Auf der Maur, and that they had “a good session.” She was also asked about the possible return of holeto which the American responded with: “It’s something I’d love to do and I’ve been taking guitar lessons via Zoom during lockdown and I’m writing again so we’ll see.”
This optimistic message about the band’s return is contrasted with statements for Vogue in which he stopped any possibility of a meeting dead: “It’s not going to happen at all. You have to get over it. Our former director, Peter Mensch, calls once a year to ask about a meeting. I feel very honored to be in that company, but “That’s just not going to happen. We’re all really good friends and Melissa and I are especially close, we talk every day. But Eric’s a little out of touch right now, I think he’s in Japan literally becoming a monk.”
The unmistakable sound of Hole
With influences as clear and marked as classic rock and grunge, Courtney Love managed to do hole a band with an unmistakable sound. Among his greatest musical references are Joy Division, Neil Young either Wipers, American punk group. So much for Courtney as for Eric Erlandsonco-founder and guitarist of holepunk has been one of its greatest examples in music, especially from the group The Germs. In fact, in an interview given in 1996 for the documentary in tribute to the aforementioned band, Eric stated that “all bands are based on a song and ours was based on Training. Courtney brought it to rehearsal and it knew like three chords. “It was the only punk rock song we could play.”
The sound of hole It has been evolving over the years, but it has always moved between the harmonious and the discrepant; between beauty and sonorous ugliness. As for the letters, which Courtney Love She has always paid special attention since, as she has stated on more than one occasion, they are “the most important thing” for her. In the songs of the American quintet there were many references to works of art and literary works, such as in Celebrity Skin, containing quotes taken from The merchant of Venice of Shakespeare.
Among other themes that we can hear in the verses of the songs of hole They highlight topics that are often considered taboo in the world of music, such as suicide, addictions or child abuse.
