Courtney Love played a small show at Hiro in New York City last night. According to reports, about 700 fans made it into the exclusive show, although considering how many media outlets are giving reviews of Love's performance, it's questionable whether any actual fans were able to get in.
Spinner.com says that Love opened the show by telling the crowd, "I'm old enough to be your mom. Fuck, I am your mom."
Love went on to play a 90 minute show consisting primarily of material off her upcoming album, Nobody's Daughter.
During the show, Love drank an Ensure protein shake, telling the crowd that "it's for anorexics." She also introduced the new song "Letter to God" by saying, "it has its Bon Jovi moments... but it's fucking cool, so shut up!"
Here is Love's setlist, courtesy of NME:
'Samantha'
'Malibu'
'Stand Up Motherfucker'
'Sunset Marquis'
'Miss World'
'How Dirty Girls Get Clean'
'Pacific Coast Highway'
'How Dirty Girls Get Clean Pt 1'
'Letter To God'
'Loser Dust'
'Celebrity Skin'
'Doll Parts'
'Never Go Hungry Again'
'For Once In Your Life'
'Northern Star'
'Happy Ending Story'
Judging by reports, the show was generally uneventful and Love was in a good, coherent mood. The club was packed mainly with a hipster crowd (and many members of the press, of course).
I know this was supposedly one of her "good days," but still, I'm trying to think of a female musician who would make a worse relative than Courtney Love, and I'm stumped. Honestly, is there any singer you would want less as your aunt? You'd be at a graduation party, and she'd be bumping into tables, spilling punch on herself, and yelling at one of your teenage cousins to "stop dressing like such a little slut." And you'd be in the corner, trying to convince your new girlfriend that she's just some former neighbor who randomly showed up.
Nevertheless, I think Love's new record has a chance to do well. She's got a successful career in her, she just needs to stop being crazy. Here is my six step program for Courtney Love to turn things around. I'd give her a twelve step program, but I figure she'll only stay sober enough to do half of it...
1) Eat a cheeseburger.
2) Stop dressing like a transvestite goth zombie.
3) Write a whole album of songs that are comparable to "Violet" or "Celebrity Skin."
4) Hire a manager to do all the talking, kinda like the Undertaker did in WWF.
5) Have sex with one of the Cold War Kids for indie street cred.
6) Release album and wait for the checks to start rolling in.
