9th July 2007You can't help but feel disappointed when Courtney Love says she can't smoke in the venue because of the laws. This is the new Courtney Love. She is still the punk/rock/grunge icon but she has grown up.
On her birthday Courtney Love was in London to perform a secret gig to about 250+ people. The reason behind was probably to test the waters for her new songs from her new album scheduled to be released in Spring 2008. I can't wait that long, as Love, who's been to hell and back in the last couple of years appears to have written an album of such beauty it hurts.
She opened her set with a song called Samantha (not Maloney) which is 1 of the 3 "rockin" songs that might end up on the album. Alongside the new songs, she squeezed some Hole classics from Live Through This (Doll Parts, Miss World) and Celebrity Skin (Malibu, Celebrity Skin and Northern Star). Her new material tells the story of someone looking at her life, acknowledging her wrongs and looking for redemption (Letter to God, Happy Ending Story, Once In Your Life, Never Go Hungry) and revenge (Stand Up Motherfucker, Sunset Marquis) and better than anything she can sing these songs live. It is a fact that she ran out of breath in some songs and ruined the intro to Miss World but to cut her some slack she has not played live (and with her new band) for years. And if her performance is like this at the beginning of the road I am looking forward to the next occasion.
Check out Courtney's new website, Courtney Love
Her Myspace for informative and amusing blog entries
and YouNeedToSeeThese for photos from Bush Hall
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